WORLD WORLDWIDE ARGENTINA News Journal Update - (en) Argentina, FORA, Organizacion Obrera #100 - November / December 2023 - Cntent + Editorial (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

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EDITORIAL - YOU DO NOT EAT, YOU DO NOT CURE, YOU DO NOT EDUCATE
ANALYSIS - Why anarcho-capitalism is a trap
EDUCATION - Possibility scenarios
ANALYSIS - Property and invention
HISTORY - October 30: Ceramist's Day; The battle of the ovens
INTERNATIONAL - The International Confederation of Labor closes its II
congress in Hannover
ANALYSIS - Democracy and horror

EDITORIAL - YOU DO NOT EAT, YOU DO NOT CURE, YOU DO NOT EDUCATE

There is a lot of talk in electoral times about the will of the people,
with the idea that democracy is the mechanism by which the people decide
their own destiny. Every two years they set up a circus and fill it with
clowns. With that fanfare, in the midst of the people and their destiny,
representative democracy places the representatives, and the imaginary
will of the people is replaced by the State.

When we are told that the State represents, defends and administers the
rights of the people, an image as diffuse as the people is being used to
justify the State. If the people are the part of society that does not
enjoy the privileges of economic power or the authority of political
power, the State is a symbolic and legal structure that displaces the
people from their own decisions.

Since the dictatorship ended, 40 years ago, democracy makes fantastic
self-promotion. Democrats talk about themselves as templars of law and
freedom, but the truth is that they are actually the protectors of
capitalism and its inequality. This means, on the other hand, that the
figure of a capitalism without a State is a perverse fantasy that
assumes that the problem of contemporary society is the State and not
capitalism. It is necessary to insist that they are two sides of the
same coin, partners since birth entrenched in the plundering of others.

Contemporary democracy is summarized in the famous phrase from article
22 of the constitution: The people do not deliberate or govern, but
through their representatives and authorities created by this
Constitution. The comma is eloquent: the people do not deliberate or
govern. The representatives will do it in their name, and in their name
they support an economic and social system that could never do what they
said it would do.

The Alfonsinista story failed. It is not eaten, cured or educated. Food
is the product whose price increases the most in inflationary times
because these prices are linked to the profitability, or even
speculation, of the agricultural sector and intermediaries. The health
system is collapsed and in a clear crisis that has not only been
observed for years, but has been announced for months by providers. It
is a system that validated the privatization of the sector with the
excuse of "hospitality", but that in fact defunded the public sector and
forced the population to turn, in one way or another, to the private
sector. Currently, the private sector has also collapsed along with
working conditions, which are progressively deteriorating hand in hand
with the general precariousness of the health system. And education,
transformed into a bellows to contain the consequences of social
decomposition, has lost any transformative desire and is stuck in the
precariousness of teaching workers and the ruinous infrastructure of the
public sector.

The three topics of Alfonsin's discourse show the structural inequality
of contemporary society. In the last 40 years, poverty has not stopped
growing and becoming structurally consolidated in an exclusive economy.
The economy of Argentine democracy is so exclusive that there are two
overlapping societies: the informal economy is already formally
incorporated into popular life and separated from the other by the wall
of employment.

But, even so, wages have depreciated to the point that employment does
not even guarantee the historical precariousness of workers' income and
is sinking below the poverty line.

In the midst of this panorama, democracy threatens dictatorship. If we
are not obedient and gentle with the representatives of the people, we
are complicit in the dictatorship. With this extortion, democracy uses
the dictatorship to vindicate itself and thereby attempts to block any
emancipatory transformation.

Perhaps it will be necessary to warn the representatives that the people
do not govern, but they do deliberate and sometimes get angry. The day
that anger is organized, the representatives of the people will become a
sad memory of the times when democracy boasted of interpreting the
popular will in the middle of a circus, every two years.

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