WORLD WORLDWIDE CZECH ARGENTINA News Journal Update - (en) Czech, AFED: ARGENTINA CHOSE ANARCHY? (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 In recent days, the whole world has been talking about Argentina: the

ultra-liberal candidate from the Libertarian Party, Javier Miley, won
the presidential elections there. Various media have managed to dub
Javier an anarchist, and we cannot ignore this situation, given the deep
misconceptions in the political analysis of the views of the far-right
president by many "experts" on social networks. ----- You can start with
a simple thing - go through the views of Miley himself and understand
how they can affect the condition of the ordinary population of the
country. A proponent of the "market settles everything" ideology, also
known as libertarianism, Argentina's new president believes in
minimizing government involvement in the economic life of the
population. In the ideology of far-right liberalism, the engine of
social development becomes private business, which is responsible, among
other things, for the well-being of its employees. Tax cuts could have
some serious consequences for the social projects on which much of the
population depends, from short-term unemployment benefits to access to
health care. Most of these social projects are not the result of state
charity, but of the social struggle of workers over the entire existence
of the state as such.

In addition to reducing government spending and minimizing taxes,
Miley's ideology involves reducing the role of the state in matters of
protecting the safety of the population. Instead of centralized
institutions such as the police, the idea of protection is transferred
to the shoulders of private businesses, which, along with the right to
arms, get the opportunity to create their own small armies that use
violence to their own advantage. It is difficult to imagine counting on
the formation of self-organized groups of workers to fight both state
and corporate violence in a country that has elected such a president
and continues to drown in an economic crisis.

Poverty in Argentina remained at around 40% by the time of the
elections. In such economic conditions, the growing influence of the
private sector can lead to serious consequences for the rights of the
population. The famous gun rights for which libertarians are so famous,
in this case, will likely become an additional factor in the control of
the workforce, most of whom are unlikely to be able to afford guns,
given the current state of affairs.

In general, the promises of Mealey's "new" politics are reminiscent of
the old school capitalist shock doctrine described in Naomi Klein's
book: the most radical representatives of the "free market" use
political/economic crises to push unpopular measures as a solution to a
problem. Some residents of the former Soviet empire can still remember
the story of the wild nineties with wild privatization. Then the most
"entrepreneurial" ones became the winners, and the majority of the
population once again found themselves with nothing.

Among other things, the circle of his friends speaks a lot about Miley's
political plans: starting from the outright fascist Spanish party VOX,
and ending with such political figures as Trump and Bolzonaro - the new
president of Argentina is clearly in the company of the far right, and
he has about the same number of connections with anarchists, There are
so many American billionaires who, according to all market laws, avoid
paying taxes in every possible way in favor of the state.

Some of our readers may ask themselves why suddenly anarchists are
against reducing the role of the state in human life? Why are all the
anarchists suddenly opposing Miley, part of whose program seems to be
similar to anarchism?

The key problem lies in the conditions of the withering away/destruction
of the state. Not every end-of-state scenario represents a transition to
an anarchic society. One of the foundations of anarchism is a deeper
look at the problems of power in general. Modern anarchists advocate not
only the abolition of statehood, but also all other forms of human
exploitation: capitalism, patriarchy, racism and many others.

In the case of Argentina, an aggressive reduction in the role of the
state and the transfer of the right to violence to private companies and
corporations can only lead to the transfer of power into the hands of
elites, over which the ordinary population has no influence at all.
While the state sometimes experiences moments of political shock, as in
the case of the election of a Libertarian as president, in corporations
decisions are made behind closed doors by only a small group of managers.

Let's not forget quite simple truths: not every revolution leads to the
liberation of the working people (and from our history we remember that
even under red flags, exploitation can continue for a long time), and
not every abolition of the state leads to an increase in the freedoms of
the population. Last week, Argentines chose a right-wing politician,
contrary to the lessons of the past and present. The current situation
has much less to do with anarchism and much more with aggressive
capitalism, which will continue to absorb the results of the work of the
majority in favor of a small group of the most privileged. We only hope
that the lessons of Argentina, among other things, will be seen by
supporters of libertarianism in Belarus and other Russian-speaking
regions and will finally understand that liberation from exploitation is
impossible without the destruction of capitalism.

https://pramen.io/ru/2023/11/argentina-vybrala-anarhiyu/
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