The project of Claudia Sheinbaum and her Morena party is that of a
country with a capitalist economy in which the free market is linked to
a strengthened State that directs economic, social and political
development. This purpose, as is known, was initially promoted by Andrés
Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). In effect, the AMLO government promotes the
rescue of the State and that it, consequently, stops being subordinated
to the laws of the market and becomes a promoter of the socioeconomic
development of the country. This policy is based, among other elements,
on the so-called "Mexican humanism." Morena's presidential candidate,
Claudia Sheinbaum, when explaining what "the president called Mexican
humanism," states the following: "It is about the fact that under the
free trade system the State continues to play a fundamental role in the
life of the nation, that does not give up building a true welfare state
that guarantees security, peace and prosperity. It is about promoting
private investment without corruption, guaranteeing profits but also
decent employment and wages" (Speech by Claudia Sheinbaum, November 19,
2023).
In Morena's Nation Project 20242030, in the section "Mixed economy
without abandoning the social responsibility of the State", it is noted
that in the "first phase of national transformation" economic management
sought to "harmonize the interests of all productive sectors ", maintain
"strict discipline in public finances", create jobs and recover
salaries, and support the countryside. The document continues: "Social
programs and the execution of large regional development projects have
strengthened the internal market and the population's consumption
capacity and generated conditions of political stability and economic
benefits for the business sector" (pp. 23- 24). In this sense, the
following is proposed, among other initiatives: "Consolidate the role of
the public sector as a central actor" in some economic sectors (energy,
telecommunications and infrastructure); "Promote business activities";
"Maintain a policy of free trade and open economy." Claudia Sheinbaum,
at the American Society 2024 Meeting, argued that both private and
public investment must be facilitated in the energy transition. This
transition will be made, "partly with the CFE and partly with the
private sector, with clear rules." Likewise, one of the coordinators of
the Dialogues for Transformation, named by Sheinbaum and a participant
in the meeting, maintained that among the axes they work on is "a mixed
economy, with stewardship of the State accompanied by a 'decided
participation of the private sector adding value and zero corruption'."
(La Jornada, January 15, 2024).
Sheinbaum and Morena's country project is very clear and sincere: they
propose a market economy - a "free trade system", as the candidate calls
it - in which private investment is promoted, although without
corruption, and that guarantees profits for businessmen. It is, in
effect, a capitalist economy that encourages business investment and
generates economic benefits for the bourgeoisie. This, however, is not
enough. The market economy must be governed by a strengthened State,
which plays a "fundamental role in the life of the nation." In
accordance with these purposes, Obrero humanism is a capitalist
humanism, in which nothing human is alien to domination and exploitation.
The mixed capitalist economy, like all capitalism, is based on
exploitation and dispossession. The theft of other people's work not
paid to workers, the exploitation, and the looting of natural resources
(water, sun, wind, minerals, oil, etc.) from communities, towns, and
inhabitants of a territory, are the bases of the mixed economy.
Exploitation is carried out by businessmen and also by the State through
its public investments, when these generate profits and/or income.
However, in most cases, public investments do not seek to produce
profits directly but rather to create favorable conditions for the "free
trade system" through infrastructure works (roads, trains, airports,
ports, energy, etc.). ) and social policies that increase consumption in
the domestic market, generate benefits for businessmen, as well as
create "conditions of political stability."
Now, the dispossession of territories and natural resources is carried
out through regional development megaprojects. These also destroy
community ways of life by subjecting them to the market, the tourist
industry or the industrial development poles.
During the AMLO government, the State has recovered, in a limited and
moderate manner, some of its regulatory functions and its participation
in some economic activities (energy, infrastructure, etc.), although it
is still far from having the stewardship of economic development. In a
path of continuity, Claudia Sheinbaum, presidential candidate of the
Let's Keep Making History coalition, made up of Morena, the Labor Party
(PT) and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), proposes, in the
next six-year term, to carry out the project of a mixed capitalist
economy at a second level, at "a second floor", according to his
expression. A model, as we have noted, that seeks the "free trade
system" and a strengthened State. This project, unlike what some claim,
is not the mere repetition of the model of mixed economy and welfare
state that Mexico experienced between 1940 and 1982, and the Western
world in the golden age of capitalism (1945-1975). And it is not because
the national and global contexts have changed substantially.
In contrast, the Mexican right and its candidate, Xóchilt Gálvez,
propose a return to the neoliberal model, to the barbaric capitalism of
privatizations, looting, rampant corruption, shameful submission to the
United States, the abusive operation of market laws, dismantling of
labor rights, the reduction of real wages, job insecurity, and the
failed state or the narco-state.
Indeed, the Mexican electoral right and its pre-candidate propose a
return to neoliberal capitalism, while the electoral left and its
pre-candidate propose strengthening the mixed capitalist economy. Both
the right and the left - using these terms of political geometry that
say little about the political content that defines people and groups -
are in favor of continuing with the capitalist system, although they
differ in the model they champion. The right of capital (PAN, PRI, PRD)
formulates a neoliberal model and the left of capital (Morena, PT, PVEM)
is in favor of a mixed economy model. Both models share being based on
exploitation and dispossession, although they differ in the scale,
functions and type of State participation. The left of capital, its
spokespersons and systemic intellectuals, present their proposal as the
desirable, viable and possible path to confront neoliberalism. In his
dichotomous vision, society has to choose between neoliberal capitalism
or mixed economy capitalism. Faced with this dilemma, what is possible
and desirable, according to them, is to continue in the capitalist
system, in a "free trade system", with a strengthened State that deploys
a welfare policy.
Fortunately, the Mexican people, in their long history of resistance and
rebellion, have not allowed themselves to be trapped in choosing between
different models of capitalism. The people and communities that for five
hundred and thirty-two years have resisted and confronted capitalism,
and that in some historical junctures have been on the verge of
defeating it - as in the process of the taking of Mexico City and a good
part of the country by the popular armies of Emiliano Zapata and
Francisco Villa at the end of 1914 - have built alternatives to that
system of barbarism and death. They have responded to capitalist private
property, dispossession, exploitation and statism by building
alternatives to communal, ejidal, collective, common goods, and through
their forms of self-organization and self-government, their community
assemblies, the care of Mother Earth. , the defense of their rights and
cultures, have created other forms of life, free and autonomous.
Alternatives to capitalism exist, here and now, in Mexico, and are being
lovingly and imaginatively cultivated by indigenous communities and peoples.
Ruben Trejo
https://mega.nz/folder/UdJyTa5S#CEdWSpaL3ptC74r6ENLPTw
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country with a capitalist economy in which the free market is linked to
a strengthened State that directs economic, social and political
development. This purpose, as is known, was initially promoted by Andrés
Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). In effect, the AMLO government promotes the
rescue of the State and that it, consequently, stops being subordinated
to the laws of the market and becomes a promoter of the socioeconomic
development of the country. This policy is based, among other elements,
on the so-called "Mexican humanism." Morena's presidential candidate,
Claudia Sheinbaum, when explaining what "the president called Mexican
humanism," states the following: "It is about the fact that under the
free trade system the State continues to play a fundamental role in the
life of the nation, that does not give up building a true welfare state
that guarantees security, peace and prosperity. It is about promoting
private investment without corruption, guaranteeing profits but also
decent employment and wages" (Speech by Claudia Sheinbaum, November 19,
2023).
In Morena's Nation Project 20242030, in the section "Mixed economy
without abandoning the social responsibility of the State", it is noted
that in the "first phase of national transformation" economic management
sought to "harmonize the interests of all productive sectors ", maintain
"strict discipline in public finances", create jobs and recover
salaries, and support the countryside. The document continues: "Social
programs and the execution of large regional development projects have
strengthened the internal market and the population's consumption
capacity and generated conditions of political stability and economic
benefits for the business sector" (pp. 23- 24). In this sense, the
following is proposed, among other initiatives: "Consolidate the role of
the public sector as a central actor" in some economic sectors (energy,
telecommunications and infrastructure); "Promote business activities";
"Maintain a policy of free trade and open economy." Claudia Sheinbaum,
at the American Society 2024 Meeting, argued that both private and
public investment must be facilitated in the energy transition. This
transition will be made, "partly with the CFE and partly with the
private sector, with clear rules." Likewise, one of the coordinators of
the Dialogues for Transformation, named by Sheinbaum and a participant
in the meeting, maintained that among the axes they work on is "a mixed
economy, with stewardship of the State accompanied by a 'decided
participation of the private sector adding value and zero corruption'."
(La Jornada, January 15, 2024).
Sheinbaum and Morena's country project is very clear and sincere: they
propose a market economy - a "free trade system", as the candidate calls
it - in which private investment is promoted, although without
corruption, and that guarantees profits for businessmen. It is, in
effect, a capitalist economy that encourages business investment and
generates economic benefits for the bourgeoisie. This, however, is not
enough. The market economy must be governed by a strengthened State,
which plays a "fundamental role in the life of the nation." In
accordance with these purposes, Obrero humanism is a capitalist
humanism, in which nothing human is alien to domination and exploitation.
The mixed capitalist economy, like all capitalism, is based on
exploitation and dispossession. The theft of other people's work not
paid to workers, the exploitation, and the looting of natural resources
(water, sun, wind, minerals, oil, etc.) from communities, towns, and
inhabitants of a territory, are the bases of the mixed economy.
Exploitation is carried out by businessmen and also by the State through
its public investments, when these generate profits and/or income.
However, in most cases, public investments do not seek to produce
profits directly but rather to create favorable conditions for the "free
trade system" through infrastructure works (roads, trains, airports,
ports, energy, etc.). ) and social policies that increase consumption in
the domestic market, generate benefits for businessmen, as well as
create "conditions of political stability."
Now, the dispossession of territories and natural resources is carried
out through regional development megaprojects. These also destroy
community ways of life by subjecting them to the market, the tourist
industry or the industrial development poles.
During the AMLO government, the State has recovered, in a limited and
moderate manner, some of its regulatory functions and its participation
in some economic activities (energy, infrastructure, etc.), although it
is still far from having the stewardship of economic development. In a
path of continuity, Claudia Sheinbaum, presidential candidate of the
Let's Keep Making History coalition, made up of Morena, the Labor Party
(PT) and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), proposes, in the
next six-year term, to carry out the project of a mixed capitalist
economy at a second level, at "a second floor", according to his
expression. A model, as we have noted, that seeks the "free trade
system" and a strengthened State. This project, unlike what some claim,
is not the mere repetition of the model of mixed economy and welfare
state that Mexico experienced between 1940 and 1982, and the Western
world in the golden age of capitalism (1945-1975). And it is not because
the national and global contexts have changed substantially.
In contrast, the Mexican right and its candidate, Xóchilt Gálvez,
propose a return to the neoliberal model, to the barbaric capitalism of
privatizations, looting, rampant corruption, shameful submission to the
United States, the abusive operation of market laws, dismantling of
labor rights, the reduction of real wages, job insecurity, and the
failed state or the narco-state.
Indeed, the Mexican electoral right and its pre-candidate propose a
return to neoliberal capitalism, while the electoral left and its
pre-candidate propose strengthening the mixed capitalist economy. Both
the right and the left - using these terms of political geometry that
say little about the political content that defines people and groups -
are in favor of continuing with the capitalist system, although they
differ in the model they champion. The right of capital (PAN, PRI, PRD)
formulates a neoliberal model and the left of capital (Morena, PT, PVEM)
is in favor of a mixed economy model. Both models share being based on
exploitation and dispossession, although they differ in the scale,
functions and type of State participation. The left of capital, its
spokespersons and systemic intellectuals, present their proposal as the
desirable, viable and possible path to confront neoliberalism. In his
dichotomous vision, society has to choose between neoliberal capitalism
or mixed economy capitalism. Faced with this dilemma, what is possible
and desirable, according to them, is to continue in the capitalist
system, in a "free trade system", with a strengthened State that deploys
a welfare policy.
Fortunately, the Mexican people, in their long history of resistance and
rebellion, have not allowed themselves to be trapped in choosing between
different models of capitalism. The people and communities that for five
hundred and thirty-two years have resisted and confronted capitalism,
and that in some historical junctures have been on the verge of
defeating it - as in the process of the taking of Mexico City and a good
part of the country by the popular armies of Emiliano Zapata and
Francisco Villa at the end of 1914 - have built alternatives to that
system of barbarism and death. They have responded to capitalist private
property, dispossession, exploitation and statism by building
alternatives to communal, ejidal, collective, common goods, and through
their forms of self-organization and self-government, their community
assemblies, the care of Mother Earth. , the defense of their rights and
cultures, have created other forms of life, free and autonomous.
Alternatives to capitalism exist, here and now, in Mexico, and are being
lovingly and imaginatively cultivated by indigenous communities and peoples.
Ruben Trejo
https://mega.nz/folder/UdJyTa5S#CEdWSpaL3ptC74r6ENLPTw
_________________________________________
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