Today's Topics:
1. Where OASL [cab] is organized? (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. [Spain] CGT calls for an indefinite general strike in the
metals sector in Cadiz By ANA (ca, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
metals sector in Cadiz By ANA (ca, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ASSOCIATION:
Rudolf Rocker speaks
Bengali and Urdu! (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Bengali and Urdu! (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. [Uruguay] The Anarchist Athenaeum of Montevideo is born By
ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - Demonstration conspi in
Chicoutimi. What TVA and Le Quotidien failed to mention (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Chicoutimi. What TVA and Le Quotidien failed to mention (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. caban arquista: Domination by the debtor-creditor
relationship in financial capitalism - Part 1 By Vitor Mateus,
FAG / CAB activist (ca, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
We are organized in 6 centers in the state of São Paulo: 3 in Grande SP, in addition to the regions of Marília, Baixada Santista and Bauru.
Our activism is added to the union, student and community struggles in these regions, strengthening movements in the construction of popular
power. ---- Nationally, we built the Brazilian Anarchist Coordination - CAB , which articulates specific anarchist organizations in the 5
regions of the country. ---- Build the revolutionary struggle across SP! ---- Read our Declaration of Principles:
https://anarquismosp.wordpress.com/sobre/principios/ ---- A little of our history: OASL-CAB, 10 years of struggle and organization! -
https://anarquismosp.wordpress.com/2019/11/18/oasl-cab-10-anos-de-luta-e-organizacao-2/
https://anarquismosp.wordpress.com/2020/08/26/onde-a-oasl-se-organiza/
------------------------------
Message: 2
The indefinite strike will begin on August 27 from 00:00. ---- The reason for calling the indefinite general strike requires: ---- 1.-
Guarantee the future through workload commitments in the metallurgical sector within the scope of the call. ---- 2.- End the inequality in
the labor, economic and social fields of workers in auxiliary companies. ---- 3.- Guarantee preventive measures that protect the life and
health of the workforce, avoiding sad episodes such as those that occurred recently in accidents that resulted in deaths in the ditch. ----
4.- To avoid job insecurity in the sector. ---- 5.- Put an end to the disciplinary policy of employers in the sector. ---- The CGT,
legalizing this call for an indefinite general strike in the metallurgical sector in the Bay of Cádiz - La Janda, shows its unconditional
support for the struggle launched from the assemblies of workers from auxiliary companies in Navantia and asks for solidarity and support
from all workers in the sector in Cádiz, which are also affected by the actions of employers that lead to pseudo slavery, making employment
more precarious and not guaranteeing the workload or the minimum health and safety conditions necessary to carry out work on the company's
premises with guarantees.
Read more:
https://www.cgtandalucia.org/blog/7544-cgt-andalucia-convoca-huelga-general-indefinida-en-el-sector-del-metal-en-bahia-de-cadiz-%E2% 80%
93-la-janda.html
Translation> Liberto
anarchist news agency-ana
------------------------------
Message: 3
Bangledesh Anarco-Syndicalist Federation, BASF, is a revolutionary organization that became a full-right member of the International Workers
Association during the International Congress held in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2019. ---- Since the creation of the first
anarco-syndicalist initiative in Bangladesh, the comrades from this country have been working on translation of the most prominent figures
of the anarco-syndicalist theory. ---- The development of the new sections and friend organizations of the IWA in the Asia-Pacific region
shows how important is the translation of anarchist and anarco-syndicalist books into new languages. Anarco-syndicalism has a prolonged
history and with the contribution of numberless comrades during more than a century a rich culture and emancipation philosophy have been
developing and inspiring the working class struggle against economical and moral exploitation. TThe transmission of our revolutionary
culture to the working people all around the world is, probably, the most important mission of the IWA at the moment. And no cultural
transmission is possible if there is any linguistic barrier. So making the cultural heritage of our pasts and present generations available
to new peoples is a crucial revolutionary task.
We are happy to announce that the BASF has issued their translation into Bengali of Rudolf Rocker's "Anarco-syndicalism: Theory and practice".
ttps://bangladeshasf.com/
There is a new iniciative in Pakistan, the Workers Solidarity Initiative WSI, that has recently publushed the translation of the same
Rocker's work into urdu on their website. The WSI has recently applied to become a Friend organization of the IWA.
https://wsipakistan.pk/
https://iwa-ait.org/content/rudolf-rocker-speaks-bengali-and-urdu
------------------------------
Message: 4
As a result of several conversations, reflections, agreements and as a continuation of the work of many comrades, a new tool for the
anarchist montevidean movement was born. We believe that there are needs that can be solved through a new space and we are happy to offer
the anti-authoritarian struggle a new contribution. ---- The objective of the Athenaeum is to reaffirm the clearly anarchist movement from
its most essential characteristics of intransigence with social injustice, openness, critical capacity and combativeness. The Athenaeum will
be yet another place to promote anarchist practices and ideas while trying to be a visible point for the approximation between compas.
The moment could not be more opportune, a confined planet, new social control devices with a free path and an ongoing capitalist
restructuring that threatens millions of people with the most absolute misery. But it is also a time when peoples rise, the corpse of
authoritarian vanguardism is already cold, and parliamentarism and progressivism are nothing but a trail of apathy. While social democracy
tries to rise up and become the blockade of the impulses of struggle and neoliberalism dreams of destroying all reflection and free
practice, fragmenting everything it does not control, the anti-authoritarian and revolutionary option is strengthened.
We call on our companions to add strength, will and ideas. In this first stage, in addition to the days for the relevant arrangements, the
Athenaeum will be offering workshops for collective formation, spaces to meet and materials from the Tierra Purpúrea library.
We invite everyone on Thursdays from 4:30 pm in Joaquín Requena and Daniel Muñoz (next to the Condón Norte Social Center).
Montevideo Anarchist Athenaeum
Translation> Sol de Abril
anarchist news agency-ana
------------------------------
Message: 5
We had the right to receive in Saguenay the crème de la crème of so-called sovereign citizens, members of the conspiratorial far-right and
somewhat confused pseudo-patriots. This gathering was graciously organized for us by an obscure group called the Patriotes Sag Lac, whose
main demand is the re-establishment of the legislative council in Quebec. ---- Note that the latter takes the flag created by Raymond
Villeneuve, a former felquist and leader (late 1990 and early 2000) of the National Liberation Movement of Quebec (MLNQ) an
ultra-nationalist and chauvinist group that welcomed many neo-Nazis and other racist activists. ----
http://www.droit-inc.com/article13987-Deux-avocats-dans-l-eau-chaude
Although regional far-right groups like the Meute and Storm Alliance (SA) are in disarray and with the current health crisis their favorite
themes such as Islamophobia, refugees and great replacement are less relevant, these little fascists continue to be active.
Indeed, former leaders are sticking to anti-mask protests. They fuel the fear and ignorance movement on the covid 19 pandemic by spreading
conspiratorial theses in order to impose their fascist agenda. In addition to Artiss, former number 2 of the pack, let us note the
participation of small-wolf tote , nickname given to Eric Proulx because of the sexual assaults he allegedly committed on meutones when he
was a big cheuf. The latter also seems to want to take advantage of the windfall and collect the dollars of the conspirators (the latter
send hundreds of thousands of dollars to an obscure foundation and to conspiratorial YouTubers) by using the resources of the printing house
where he works.
In this great happening of the fascist militants of the beautiful province, let us note the presence of Dave Tregget. This former leader of
the SA group , also discredited after a story of sexual assault on a member and whose main feats of arms were to try to intimidate asylum
seekers on Roaxham Road.
Of course, this time they are not stigmatizing and harassing religious minorities ... at least for now. Let's face it, these demonstrations
against the mask are only a vast recruitment operation for the identity and fascist right.
What if there was a conspiracy within the conspiracy?
It is not yesterday that the extreme right is propagating and fueling conspiracy theories. We only have to think of the Nazi who circulated
anti-Semitic pamphlets (the Protocols of the Elders of Zion) denouncing a so-called Jewish plot.
Alexis Cosette Trudel, one of the headliners of the conspi rally in Chicoutimi, is one of the main influencers to propagate Q anon's
conspiracy theses and to defend Donald Trump in Quebec. He sees the COVID-19 pandemic as a plot "to put us into a totalitarian political
system, a coup" (August 8 protest) and the last attempt by the "globalist establishment" to fall Donald Trump. At first glance, it turns out
to be unlikely that individuals could believe such bullshit. If we summarize quickly, it is about a conspiracy or a satanic pedo network
which uses the blood (adrenochrome) of their victim to prolong their youth. This network would be established within the state, media and
finance circles and Donald Trump would be in cahoots with Q for dismantling the deep state. On the other hand, we are forced to admit, that
there is a significant portion of the American / Conservative / Republican electorate (and obviously a good bunch of pseudo patriots here in
Quebec) who have attended "the university of life" and who are likely to believe in conspiracies of all kinds. As the conspiratorial
YouTuber repeats: "who pays for the crime? But who is he really paying? We are ready to put a small US $ 2 that this shenanigans indeed
emanates from the inner circle of the 45th President of the United States not to "clean up the swamp" of the deep state / deep state or the
cabal, but to mobilize,
There you have it, the few details that the TVA Group and the newspaper Le Quotidien failed to present by giving more this week in the
infomercial for the gathering in Chicoutimi than in journalism.
PS Thanks to the Moles who sent us a series of screenshots.
Posted Yesterday by Collectif Emma Goldman
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2020/08/manif-conspi-chicoutimi-ce-que-tva-et.htm
------------------------------
Message: 6
The production of individualized subjectivities ---- When considering the current moment in the rise in the cost of living and in the
narrative of the crisis , it is essential to take into account the role that fulfills what we can call the debt mechanism . Essemecanismo
began to be developed in the 1970s and developed based on neoliberal government techniques, culminating in the subprime crisis in 2008 and
reinventing itself (with an even more violent practice of expropriating the wealth produced collectively and increasing poverty at the
national level). global) since then. ---- Contrary to what the news from the media oligopolies portrayed, the fact that, in Brazil before
the Coronavirus pandemic, more than 60% of the families were in debt (a number that has been increasing during the pandemic, approaching 70%
) is not merely a one-off issue, nor is it simply a reflection of the "crisis" that the Brazilian economy has been experiencing in recent
years (by "crisis" here we refer to the relatively low growth of national GDP). On the contrary: the high indebtedness of the lower-income
population is part of a project that unabashedly favors the accumulation of wealth on the part of that richer 1%, which fosters the
construction of a subjectivity that individually internalizes the oppressive mechanisms and allows the capture of the future, of the future,
of indebted subjects. In other words, mass indebtedness is not a reflection of the crisis, but its constitutive basis; it is the premise of
debt that allows subjection to the adjustment policies imposed by the neoliberal model of government, which cut deep into the flesh of the
poor people and socialize the risks assumed by the financial adventures practiced by market agents.
É válido relembrar que o acesso ao crédito foi amplamente popularizado do final dos anos 1990 pra cá (no Brasil), com uma ampliação no
acesso ainda maior durante os governos petistas. Em boa medida, essa chamada "democratização do crédito" supriu, inclusive, as demandas por
reajustes salariais, uma vez que a capilarização da lógica do consumo tornou equivalente (de maneira equivocada) o acesso a bens antes
inacessíveis com o sentimento de melhora nas condições de vida. Tal fenômeno contribuiu também para o fortalecimento da subjetividade
individualizante apregoada pelo neoliberalismo, o famoso "empreendedor de si mesmo". Se antes, por exemplo, a luta por moradia era coletiva,
com a profusão das linhas de crédito imobiliário (beneficiadas por incentivos estatais que corriam diretamente para o caixa dos grandes
bancos) a conquista da casa própria tornou-se uma realização individual; do mesmo modo, garantir uma geladeira ou uma televisão em casa não
dependia mais de um salário digno, mas apenas da capacidade individual de manter em dia o pagamento dos boletos ou do cartão de crédito. Em
suma, com a ampliação do acesso ao crédito, a luta coletiva foi substituída pela lógica do "se I organize my bills just right, you can pay ".
With this individualizing process, which calls for a struggle that should be collective, there is also an internalization of the feeling of
responsibility. In other words, the responsibility for ensuring the payment of debts incurred rests solely with the individual - it is mine
. In addition to the economic aspect, the moral aspect is added. There is nowhere to turn if the debt payment is not respected - at most, to
the family, with the risk of indebting close relatives.
It should be noted that this moral element in the debt complex is heavily worked on, including linked to issues such as honor (mainly in the
constitution of masculinity, which leads, when the debt is not " honored ")", To extreme attitudes such as suicide and even the murder of a
partner and children). And it is precisely this moral demand that guarantees the payment of the debt, which, in other words, means the
compromise of future income - that is, of the future itself. Structures such as credit restriction in case of negative registration (via
credit restriction agencies - SPC, Serasa, etc.) and information sharing between financial institutions (through which the "customer" risk
is rated, influencing the interest rate applied and conditioning the release of credit) guarantee the exclusion of the individual who does
not respect the debt commitment to the alleged improvement in living conditions (understood as access to the consumer market).
Thus, from the guarantee of future payment with installments to be lost sight of, renewed by others as soon as the first are paid off (and
thus in an infinite logic), the financial sector of society appropriates the income of the popular classes, the slice competence over the
total wealth they themselves produce. It is through the collection of interest that this financial elite guarantees the multiplication of
their fortunes, implementing a logic that allows the expropriation of the small part that reaches the hands of the working class of the
socially produced wealth.
If, on the one hand, the raptors in the financial sector understood the potential that the debt mechanism has to plunder downstairs, on the
other, they also understood that this same mechanism has its potential expanded from the state apparatus. Through taxation, the state
structure gathers figures above those of any company, stoking the greed of those who do not tire of filling their pockets 1 . For this
reason, the government model advocated by neoliberalism sacralizes a single expenditure in the entire public budget: the payment of public
debt. To guarantee this payment, all other variables are subject to adjustment, including social spending on health, education, security,
public transport, etc. - these are linked to an improvement in general living conditions. Regardless of the party that assumes the
management of the State, the neoliberal primer is imposed by autonomous institutions (such as the IMF, World Bank, autonomous BCs, etc.),
managed to guarantee the economic model in vogue, decreasing more and more the scope for those who still believe in ruptures through
bourgeois democracy.
Thus, as a cycle that closes in perfect sync, the general subjectivity in favor of paying the debt tends not to question this sacralized
variable. On the contrary, the tendency is not to question it, raising it to the highest priority - either in the public budget or in the
family budget. More than that, with the lack of investments in the social areas, public services go through a process of scrapping, raising
general suspicion about its efficiency. On the other hand, by providing feedback to the imaginary of individual solutions to collective
problems, the solutions presented fall into the private sector. Examples of this logic are the emergence of capitalization and private
pension systems (instead of a general social security system), the expansion of health plans (to the detriment of a single public system),
In other words, in addition to capturing the future (through income) of the oppressed sectors, the debt mechanism accentuates the worsening
of living conditions through the appropriation of general income through the tax system of the state machine - a fact which, in Brazil, is
aggravated by a regressive tax system, extremely unequal in tax collection (disadvantaging classes with less purchasing power).
To be continued.
1 We are not here entering the debate about the role of public debt in financing public investments, nor are we discussing different
taxation mechanisms. We mention national sovereign debt as structuring of financial markets and the relationship that more or less liberal
governments have with it.
http://cabanarquista.org/2020/08/27/a-dominacao-pela-relacao-devedor-credor-no-capitalismo-financeiro-parte-1
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relationship in financial capitalism - Part 1 By Vitor Mateus,
FAG / CAB activist (ca, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
We are organized in 6 centers in the state of São Paulo: 3 in Grande SP, in addition to the regions of Marília, Baixada Santista and Bauru.
Our activism is added to the union, student and community struggles in these regions, strengthening movements in the construction of popular
power. ---- Nationally, we built the Brazilian Anarchist Coordination - CAB , which articulates specific anarchist organizations in the 5
regions of the country. ---- Build the revolutionary struggle across SP! ---- Read our Declaration of Principles:
https://anarquismosp.wordpress.com/sobre/principios/ ---- A little of our history: OASL-CAB, 10 years of struggle and organization! -
https://anarquismosp.wordpress.com/2019/11/18/oasl-cab-10-anos-de-luta-e-organizacao-2/
https://anarquismosp.wordpress.com/2020/08/26/onde-a-oasl-se-organiza/
------------------------------
Message: 2
The indefinite strike will begin on August 27 from 00:00. ---- The reason for calling the indefinite general strike requires: ---- 1.-
Guarantee the future through workload commitments in the metallurgical sector within the scope of the call. ---- 2.- End the inequality in
the labor, economic and social fields of workers in auxiliary companies. ---- 3.- Guarantee preventive measures that protect the life and
health of the workforce, avoiding sad episodes such as those that occurred recently in accidents that resulted in deaths in the ditch. ----
4.- To avoid job insecurity in the sector. ---- 5.- Put an end to the disciplinary policy of employers in the sector. ---- The CGT,
legalizing this call for an indefinite general strike in the metallurgical sector in the Bay of Cádiz - La Janda, shows its unconditional
support for the struggle launched from the assemblies of workers from auxiliary companies in Navantia and asks for solidarity and support
from all workers in the sector in Cádiz, which are also affected by the actions of employers that lead to pseudo slavery, making employment
more precarious and not guaranteeing the workload or the minimum health and safety conditions necessary to carry out work on the company's
premises with guarantees.
Read more:
https://www.cgtandalucia.org/blog/7544-cgt-andalucia-convoca-huelga-general-indefinida-en-el-sector-del-metal-en-bahia-de-cadiz-%E2% 80%
93-la-janda.html
Translation> Liberto
anarchist news agency-ana
------------------------------
Message: 3
Bangledesh Anarco-Syndicalist Federation, BASF, is a revolutionary organization that became a full-right member of the International Workers
Association during the International Congress held in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2019. ---- Since the creation of the first
anarco-syndicalist initiative in Bangladesh, the comrades from this country have been working on translation of the most prominent figures
of the anarco-syndicalist theory. ---- The development of the new sections and friend organizations of the IWA in the Asia-Pacific region
shows how important is the translation of anarchist and anarco-syndicalist books into new languages. Anarco-syndicalism has a prolonged
history and with the contribution of numberless comrades during more than a century a rich culture and emancipation philosophy have been
developing and inspiring the working class struggle against economical and moral exploitation. TThe transmission of our revolutionary
culture to the working people all around the world is, probably, the most important mission of the IWA at the moment. And no cultural
transmission is possible if there is any linguistic barrier. So making the cultural heritage of our pasts and present generations available
to new peoples is a crucial revolutionary task.
We are happy to announce that the BASF has issued their translation into Bengali of Rudolf Rocker's "Anarco-syndicalism: Theory and practice".
ttps://bangladeshasf.com/
There is a new iniciative in Pakistan, the Workers Solidarity Initiative WSI, that has recently publushed the translation of the same
Rocker's work into urdu on their website. The WSI has recently applied to become a Friend organization of the IWA.
https://wsipakistan.pk/
https://iwa-ait.org/content/rudolf-rocker-speaks-bengali-and-urdu
------------------------------
Message: 4
As a result of several conversations, reflections, agreements and as a continuation of the work of many comrades, a new tool for the
anarchist montevidean movement was born. We believe that there are needs that can be solved through a new space and we are happy to offer
the anti-authoritarian struggle a new contribution. ---- The objective of the Athenaeum is to reaffirm the clearly anarchist movement from
its most essential characteristics of intransigence with social injustice, openness, critical capacity and combativeness. The Athenaeum will
be yet another place to promote anarchist practices and ideas while trying to be a visible point for the approximation between compas.
The moment could not be more opportune, a confined planet, new social control devices with a free path and an ongoing capitalist
restructuring that threatens millions of people with the most absolute misery. But it is also a time when peoples rise, the corpse of
authoritarian vanguardism is already cold, and parliamentarism and progressivism are nothing but a trail of apathy. While social democracy
tries to rise up and become the blockade of the impulses of struggle and neoliberalism dreams of destroying all reflection and free
practice, fragmenting everything it does not control, the anti-authoritarian and revolutionary option is strengthened.
We call on our companions to add strength, will and ideas. In this first stage, in addition to the days for the relevant arrangements, the
Athenaeum will be offering workshops for collective formation, spaces to meet and materials from the Tierra Purpúrea library.
We invite everyone on Thursdays from 4:30 pm in Joaquín Requena and Daniel Muñoz (next to the Condón Norte Social Center).
Montevideo Anarchist Athenaeum
Translation> Sol de Abril
anarchist news agency-ana
------------------------------
Message: 5
We had the right to receive in Saguenay the crème de la crème of so-called sovereign citizens, members of the conspiratorial far-right and
somewhat confused pseudo-patriots. This gathering was graciously organized for us by an obscure group called the Patriotes Sag Lac, whose
main demand is the re-establishment of the legislative council in Quebec. ---- Note that the latter takes the flag created by Raymond
Villeneuve, a former felquist and leader (late 1990 and early 2000) of the National Liberation Movement of Quebec (MLNQ) an
ultra-nationalist and chauvinist group that welcomed many neo-Nazis and other racist activists. ----
http://www.droit-inc.com/article13987-Deux-avocats-dans-l-eau-chaude
Although regional far-right groups like the Meute and Storm Alliance (SA) are in disarray and with the current health crisis their favorite
themes such as Islamophobia, refugees and great replacement are less relevant, these little fascists continue to be active.
Indeed, former leaders are sticking to anti-mask protests. They fuel the fear and ignorance movement on the covid 19 pandemic by spreading
conspiratorial theses in order to impose their fascist agenda. In addition to Artiss, former number 2 of the pack, let us note the
participation of small-wolf tote , nickname given to Eric Proulx because of the sexual assaults he allegedly committed on meutones when he
was a big cheuf. The latter also seems to want to take advantage of the windfall and collect the dollars of the conspirators (the latter
send hundreds of thousands of dollars to an obscure foundation and to conspiratorial YouTubers) by using the resources of the printing house
where he works.
In this great happening of the fascist militants of the beautiful province, let us note the presence of Dave Tregget. This former leader of
the SA group , also discredited after a story of sexual assault on a member and whose main feats of arms were to try to intimidate asylum
seekers on Roaxham Road.
Of course, this time they are not stigmatizing and harassing religious minorities ... at least for now. Let's face it, these demonstrations
against the mask are only a vast recruitment operation for the identity and fascist right.
What if there was a conspiracy within the conspiracy?
It is not yesterday that the extreme right is propagating and fueling conspiracy theories. We only have to think of the Nazi who circulated
anti-Semitic pamphlets (the Protocols of the Elders of Zion) denouncing a so-called Jewish plot.
Alexis Cosette Trudel, one of the headliners of the conspi rally in Chicoutimi, is one of the main influencers to propagate Q anon's
conspiracy theses and to defend Donald Trump in Quebec. He sees the COVID-19 pandemic as a plot "to put us into a totalitarian political
system, a coup" (August 8 protest) and the last attempt by the "globalist establishment" to fall Donald Trump. At first glance, it turns out
to be unlikely that individuals could believe such bullshit. If we summarize quickly, it is about a conspiracy or a satanic pedo network
which uses the blood (adrenochrome) of their victim to prolong their youth. This network would be established within the state, media and
finance circles and Donald Trump would be in cahoots with Q for dismantling the deep state. On the other hand, we are forced to admit, that
there is a significant portion of the American / Conservative / Republican electorate (and obviously a good bunch of pseudo patriots here in
Quebec) who have attended "the university of life" and who are likely to believe in conspiracies of all kinds. As the conspiratorial
YouTuber repeats: "who pays for the crime? But who is he really paying? We are ready to put a small US $ 2 that this shenanigans indeed
emanates from the inner circle of the 45th President of the United States not to "clean up the swamp" of the deep state / deep state or the
cabal, but to mobilize,
There you have it, the few details that the TVA Group and the newspaper Le Quotidien failed to present by giving more this week in the
infomercial for the gathering in Chicoutimi than in journalism.
PS Thanks to the Moles who sent us a series of screenshots.
Posted Yesterday by Collectif Emma Goldman
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2020/08/manif-conspi-chicoutimi-ce-que-tva-et.htm
------------------------------
Message: 6
The production of individualized subjectivities ---- When considering the current moment in the rise in the cost of living and in the
narrative of the crisis , it is essential to take into account the role that fulfills what we can call the debt mechanism . Essemecanismo
began to be developed in the 1970s and developed based on neoliberal government techniques, culminating in the subprime crisis in 2008 and
reinventing itself (with an even more violent practice of expropriating the wealth produced collectively and increasing poverty at the
national level). global) since then. ---- Contrary to what the news from the media oligopolies portrayed, the fact that, in Brazil before
the Coronavirus pandemic, more than 60% of the families were in debt (a number that has been increasing during the pandemic, approaching 70%
) is not merely a one-off issue, nor is it simply a reflection of the "crisis" that the Brazilian economy has been experiencing in recent
years (by "crisis" here we refer to the relatively low growth of national GDP). On the contrary: the high indebtedness of the lower-income
population is part of a project that unabashedly favors the accumulation of wealth on the part of that richer 1%, which fosters the
construction of a subjectivity that individually internalizes the oppressive mechanisms and allows the capture of the future, of the future,
of indebted subjects. In other words, mass indebtedness is not a reflection of the crisis, but its constitutive basis; it is the premise of
debt that allows subjection to the adjustment policies imposed by the neoliberal model of government, which cut deep into the flesh of the
poor people and socialize the risks assumed by the financial adventures practiced by market agents.
É válido relembrar que o acesso ao crédito foi amplamente popularizado do final dos anos 1990 pra cá (no Brasil), com uma ampliação no
acesso ainda maior durante os governos petistas. Em boa medida, essa chamada "democratização do crédito" supriu, inclusive, as demandas por
reajustes salariais, uma vez que a capilarização da lógica do consumo tornou equivalente (de maneira equivocada) o acesso a bens antes
inacessíveis com o sentimento de melhora nas condições de vida. Tal fenômeno contribuiu também para o fortalecimento da subjetividade
individualizante apregoada pelo neoliberalismo, o famoso "empreendedor de si mesmo". Se antes, por exemplo, a luta por moradia era coletiva,
com a profusão das linhas de crédito imobiliário (beneficiadas por incentivos estatais que corriam diretamente para o caixa dos grandes
bancos) a conquista da casa própria tornou-se uma realização individual; do mesmo modo, garantir uma geladeira ou uma televisão em casa não
dependia mais de um salário digno, mas apenas da capacidade individual de manter em dia o pagamento dos boletos ou do cartão de crédito. Em
suma, com a ampliação do acesso ao crédito, a luta coletiva foi substituída pela lógica do "se I organize my bills just right, you can pay ".
With this individualizing process, which calls for a struggle that should be collective, there is also an internalization of the feeling of
responsibility. In other words, the responsibility for ensuring the payment of debts incurred rests solely with the individual - it is mine
. In addition to the economic aspect, the moral aspect is added. There is nowhere to turn if the debt payment is not respected - at most, to
the family, with the risk of indebting close relatives.
It should be noted that this moral element in the debt complex is heavily worked on, including linked to issues such as honor (mainly in the
constitution of masculinity, which leads, when the debt is not " honored ")", To extreme attitudes such as suicide and even the murder of a
partner and children). And it is precisely this moral demand that guarantees the payment of the debt, which, in other words, means the
compromise of future income - that is, of the future itself. Structures such as credit restriction in case of negative registration (via
credit restriction agencies - SPC, Serasa, etc.) and information sharing between financial institutions (through which the "customer" risk
is rated, influencing the interest rate applied and conditioning the release of credit) guarantee the exclusion of the individual who does
not respect the debt commitment to the alleged improvement in living conditions (understood as access to the consumer market).
Thus, from the guarantee of future payment with installments to be lost sight of, renewed by others as soon as the first are paid off (and
thus in an infinite logic), the financial sector of society appropriates the income of the popular classes, the slice competence over the
total wealth they themselves produce. It is through the collection of interest that this financial elite guarantees the multiplication of
their fortunes, implementing a logic that allows the expropriation of the small part that reaches the hands of the working class of the
socially produced wealth.
If, on the one hand, the raptors in the financial sector understood the potential that the debt mechanism has to plunder downstairs, on the
other, they also understood that this same mechanism has its potential expanded from the state apparatus. Through taxation, the state
structure gathers figures above those of any company, stoking the greed of those who do not tire of filling their pockets 1 . For this
reason, the government model advocated by neoliberalism sacralizes a single expenditure in the entire public budget: the payment of public
debt. To guarantee this payment, all other variables are subject to adjustment, including social spending on health, education, security,
public transport, etc. - these are linked to an improvement in general living conditions. Regardless of the party that assumes the
management of the State, the neoliberal primer is imposed by autonomous institutions (such as the IMF, World Bank, autonomous BCs, etc.),
managed to guarantee the economic model in vogue, decreasing more and more the scope for those who still believe in ruptures through
bourgeois democracy.
Thus, as a cycle that closes in perfect sync, the general subjectivity in favor of paying the debt tends not to question this sacralized
variable. On the contrary, the tendency is not to question it, raising it to the highest priority - either in the public budget or in the
family budget. More than that, with the lack of investments in the social areas, public services go through a process of scrapping, raising
general suspicion about its efficiency. On the other hand, by providing feedback to the imaginary of individual solutions to collective
problems, the solutions presented fall into the private sector. Examples of this logic are the emergence of capitalization and private
pension systems (instead of a general social security system), the expansion of health plans (to the detriment of a single public system),
In other words, in addition to capturing the future (through income) of the oppressed sectors, the debt mechanism accentuates the worsening
of living conditions through the appropriation of general income through the tax system of the state machine - a fact which, in Brazil, is
aggravated by a regressive tax system, extremely unequal in tax collection (disadvantaging classes with less purchasing power).
To be continued.
1 We are not here entering the debate about the role of public debt in financing public investments, nor are we discussing different
taxation mechanisms. We mention national sovereign debt as structuring of financial markets and the relationship that more or less liberal
governments have with it.
http://cabanarquista.org/2020/08/27/a-dominacao-pela-relacao-devedor-credor-no-capitalismo-financeiro-parte-1
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