THE SPRING OF BLACK 'Anti-Imperialist
An unholy alliance between the stragglers of the modernization
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It is possible that dreaming the dream move the world of tomorrow. But some dreams are mere ghosts of the dead world of yesterday. Much of today has not left any orientation in relation to the future. All over the world the next prefers to return to the paradigms of traditional politics, based on nation states. So globalization is real or is denied or ignored and underestimated. And the criticism begins with the basic categories of historically obsolete "abstract labor," the commodity form, the "enhancement of value and capitalist relations between the sexes in the new global society. It is limited to a superficial reference to the "financial capital" and the imperial power outside the U.S.. In the new circumstances, arises in this as a convergence of positions left and right, with a focus anti-Semitic. Since, in modern history, the ideologues have always identified the irrational speculative money to the "Jews." In the climate of evocation
regressive forms historically decadent politics, anti-imperialism is also experiencing a black spring that has nothing more to do with the hopes of the national revolution of the past. Against imperialism, colonialism, Western security and control conducted by the U.S. crisis, the political left increasingly petrified offers a counterweight in the outer sphere, consists of schemes that, in the process of global crisis, apparently animated the old national sovereignty. The true character of these schemes and then faded. It is a concept of pure power politics, without any regard for the socio-historical and ideological content. There is here a crucial difference in relation to past anti-imperialism, in which, if no one questions the modern system of producer goods, and with it, the world market, even so, despite this reduction, it defended a claim ideal of emancipation . The assumption had the leeway to be made by a national development during the expansion of capitalism. Under the conditions of the new global crisis of this is nothing left.
In a reformulation of a sense of anti-imperialism released substantial claims by past and reduced to an empty shell, the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, considered the new bearer of the hope of the Left in Latin America, praised the "power triangle" formed by Iran, Russia and China, as an animating kind of alliance against neoliberalism and against U.S. policy of war for the world order, already sunk into Iraq. But it does not occur any more self-confrontation that could support an internal development and liberation. It only shows the other side of the global crisis. Characterized as enemies or rivals of the U.S. and Western policy of intervention, these same systems are components of the process of destabilization and in this sense, they are included in the decadence of bourgeois reason. The common framework of the global market, which in the history of modernization gave impetus to the opposition between imperial power el'antimperialista "struggle for recognition," becomes, the extinction of the power of modernization, the field of dissemination of a tendency to barbarism which includes all state actors.
It is rather an alliance between desecrated the stragglers came at the end of modernization, designed to support the new anti-imperialism of nation states. Above all, this is not a program to revitalize the economic and political anti-globalization, what is at stake are the side effects of globalization. The basis of the supposed "strength" in the case of oil-exporting countries - Russia, Iran and Venezuela - is not an independent historical perspective that goes beyond the modern system of producer goods, but the obvious duplication of oil prices, which led to billions dollars in their safes. However, the price of oil is no indicator of social transformation, it is nothing more than a function in the movement of the world market. At the same time, it is not a self-sustaining social reproduction, but a moment purely speculative and totally uncertain in the context of crisis in the world system.
For this reason, the unexpected blessing of the billions of oil will not consolidates all programs of sustainable development. The Putin regime in Russia is only the ruin of a former world power of the wrecked "modernization of recovery." The Secret Service was administered converted to the misery of desperate masses with the social and political repression in order to reproduce on land reduced the nightmare of a peripheral empire, which now feeds only petrodollars. The mullahs' regime, which aspires to nuclear weapons based on petrodollars, Iran devastated by terror and religious neopatriarcato is a misogynist. The dissidents and the left are decimated by the thousands, the new President Ahmadinejad is the elimination of Israel and its program called "western myth" the annihilation of European Jews by the Nazis. It shows the intellectual demoralization when Chávez accepts the folly Ahmadinejad anti-Semitic and called "brother." But the same messianic caudillismo Chávez has taken doubtful. The "Bolivarian revolution", which on the basis of nationalist ideology has limited turning a paradigm for Latin America, meets and matches with him. Social reform organized as quasi-no doubt helped the poor immediately, but from the standpoint of a social self-reproduction, they are empty and uncertain, to the extent they are based solely on a grant supported in dark petrodollars. And, in the context of a "brotherhood" with a regime like Iran, it obscures the ideological horizon of these efforts.
other hand, the supposed "strength" of China meets in a reciprocal relationship with the precarious new wealth speculative oil exporting countries. As time Chinese export and industrialization that has contributed largely to the explosion in oil prices. In a few years China has become, after the U.S., the second largest oil consumer. However what looks like Chinese export offensive is still less a function of a national development program, and only, so far, the major side effect of globalization. This stream of exports is based primarily on investment conglomerates Western (primarily U.S. and European Union), who, during their global outsourcing, have made China the turntable platform and the creation of transnational chains value. As a result, China has registered, after the U.S., the second largest inflow of foreign direct investment. Ie, no trace of national autonomy, only the result of extremely low wages and lack of rights: slaves, mostly young, often headquartered in the exporting areas of the economy. At the same time, these investments remain insular. Social reproduction in more is threatened by the collapse of part of that development. It is in this way that have made China the paradoxes of unbridled capitalism and transnational minority, under the protection of the roof of the apparatus of political power, communist as old and paternalistic. With police and military actions, a corrupt bureaucracy tries to appease the social contradictions that tear the country.
Under these conditions, the vague anti-imperialist project of an alliance of oil-exporting countries with China is a chimera. It is likely that nothing of such an alliance to happen, since their positions in the world market are quite distinct and even opposed. To the extent that China is become the new Eldorado for the outsourcing of transnational conglomerates, have reduced direct investment in Latin America. Mexico, which was still in the 90s, as part of NAFTA [free trade agreement between U.S., Mexico and Canada], one of the areas of investment preferred by American conglomerates, is now dried up in this aspect. The proximity to the U.S. now is no longer valid, since the Chinese labor is even lower. A similar fate also threaten the Latin American countries. Even the great hopes in the Chinese investments in Argentina and Brazil have fallen rapidly.
Meanwhile, the cheap goods of Chinese industries (in fact, outsourcing products transnational conglomerates in the U.S. and the European Union) glut of Latin American markets. Certainly, Latin American exports to China increased. But, first, it is almost exclusively of raw material. With this, you play just the way globalization old dependency relationship between center and periphery in a new configuration. Secondly, exports to and imports from China are in complete disequilibrium. In 2005, Brazilian exports to China were up 9%, imports, in turn, to 50%. The growing excess of imports from the Chinese economy exporting areas ranging from articles of fireworks, toys, textiles and shoes, to electronics, cars, airplanes, steel and chemicals. Latin America is threatened in this way, a new de-industrialization.
The draft of the anti-imperialist alliance between the oil-exporting countries, the "Bolivarian Revolution" and China proves fragile entirely when the last link in the global chain is included in the analysis. As the new oil wealth depends on industrialization of China, this depends on U.S. consumption. Here closes the circle. It is only the totally one-sided flow of exports across the Pacific supports the claim that growth. The flood of Latin American markets is only a secondary effect of the floods in North American markets with goods native of China. The North American consumption, in turn, is based mainly in the stream of transnational capital money, that is, nell'indebitamento. The U.S. have long been the country with the largest external debt of the world. The solvency of this debt is guaranteed, however, the U.S. position as the last world power, especially in view of the military machine without equal.
social and foreign policies of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, funded with petrodollars, are therefore, ultimately, by combining economic solvency and the imperial military power of their enemy. What a contradiction! In fact, Chavez has to pray that the evil power of the United States continues intact, since, otherwise, the house of cards collapses of widespread political dreams. It is probably the most irrational when the depth of this ideological constellation that causes darkening of the supposed new anti-imperialism to achieve anti-Semitic disorders. This shows once again that the struggle for social emancipation must be conducted only for a transnational movement that proceeds from below, without the assurance of national political power. The charisma-based anti-imperialist nationalism in the niches of the uncertain economic globalization can not claim any sustainability.
Original DER SCHWARZE Frühling DES ANTIIMPERIALISMUS
regressive forms historically decadent politics, anti-imperialism is also experiencing a black spring that has nothing more to do with the hopes of the national revolution of the past. Against imperialism, colonialism, Western security and control conducted by the U.S. crisis, the political left increasingly petrified offers a counterweight in the outer sphere, consists of schemes that, in the process of global crisis, apparently animated the old national sovereignty. The true character of these schemes and then faded. It is a concept of pure power politics, without any regard for the socio-historical and ideological content. There is here a crucial difference in relation to past anti-imperialism, in which, if no one questions the modern system of producer goods, and with it, the world market, even so, despite this reduction, it defended a claim ideal of emancipation . The assumption had the leeway to be made by a national development during the expansion of capitalism. Under the conditions of the new global crisis of this is nothing left.
In a reformulation of a sense of anti-imperialism released substantial claims by past and reduced to an empty shell, the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, considered the new bearer of the hope of the Left in Latin America, praised the "power triangle" formed by Iran, Russia and China, as an animating kind of alliance against neoliberalism and against U.S. policy of war for the world order, already sunk into Iraq. But it does not occur any more self-confrontation that could support an internal development and liberation. It only shows the other side of the global crisis. Characterized as enemies or rivals of the U.S. and Western policy of intervention, these same systems are components of the process of destabilization and in this sense, they are included in the decadence of bourgeois reason. The common framework of the global market, which in the history of modernization gave impetus to the opposition between imperial power el'antimperialista "struggle for recognition," becomes, the extinction of the power of modernization, the field of dissemination of a tendency to barbarism which includes all state actors.
It is rather an alliance between desecrated the stragglers came at the end of modernization, designed to support the new anti-imperialism of nation states. Above all, this is not a program to revitalize the economic and political anti-globalization, what is at stake are the side effects of globalization. The basis of the supposed "strength" in the case of oil-exporting countries - Russia, Iran and Venezuela - is not an independent historical perspective that goes beyond the modern system of producer goods, but the obvious duplication of oil prices, which led to billions dollars in their safes. However, the price of oil is no indicator of social transformation, it is nothing more than a function in the movement of the world market. At the same time, it is not a self-sustaining social reproduction, but a moment purely speculative and totally uncertain in the context of crisis in the world system.
For this reason, the unexpected blessing of the billions of oil will not consolidates all programs of sustainable development. The Putin regime in Russia is only the ruin of a former world power of the wrecked "modernization of recovery." The Secret Service was administered converted to the misery of desperate masses with the social and political repression in order to reproduce on land reduced the nightmare of a peripheral empire, which now feeds only petrodollars. The mullahs' regime, which aspires to nuclear weapons based on petrodollars, Iran devastated by terror and religious neopatriarcato is a misogynist. The dissidents and the left are decimated by the thousands, the new President Ahmadinejad is the elimination of Israel and its program called "western myth" the annihilation of European Jews by the Nazis. It shows the intellectual demoralization when Chávez accepts the folly Ahmadinejad anti-Semitic and called "brother." But the same messianic caudillismo Chávez has taken doubtful. The "Bolivarian revolution", which on the basis of nationalist ideology has limited turning a paradigm for Latin America, meets and matches with him. Social reform organized as quasi-no doubt helped the poor immediately, but from the standpoint of a social self-reproduction, they are empty and uncertain, to the extent they are based solely on a grant supported in dark petrodollars. And, in the context of a "brotherhood" with a regime like Iran, it obscures the ideological horizon of these efforts.
other hand, the supposed "strength" of China meets in a reciprocal relationship with the precarious new wealth speculative oil exporting countries. As time Chinese export and industrialization that has contributed largely to the explosion in oil prices. In a few years China has become, after the U.S., the second largest oil consumer. However what looks like Chinese export offensive is still less a function of a national development program, and only, so far, the major side effect of globalization. This stream of exports is based primarily on investment conglomerates Western (primarily U.S. and European Union), who, during their global outsourcing, have made China the turntable platform and the creation of transnational chains value. As a result, China has registered, after the U.S., the second largest inflow of foreign direct investment. Ie, no trace of national autonomy, only the result of extremely low wages and lack of rights: slaves, mostly young, often headquartered in the exporting areas of the economy. At the same time, these investments remain insular. Social reproduction in more is threatened by the collapse of part of that development. It is in this way that have made China the paradoxes of unbridled capitalism and transnational minority, under the protection of the roof of the apparatus of political power, communist as old and paternalistic. With police and military actions, a corrupt bureaucracy tries to appease the social contradictions that tear the country.
Under these conditions, the vague anti-imperialist project of an alliance of oil-exporting countries with China is a chimera. It is likely that nothing of such an alliance to happen, since their positions in the world market are quite distinct and even opposed. To the extent that China is become the new Eldorado for the outsourcing of transnational conglomerates, have reduced direct investment in Latin America. Mexico, which was still in the 90s, as part of NAFTA [free trade agreement between U.S., Mexico and Canada], one of the areas of investment preferred by American conglomerates, is now dried up in this aspect. The proximity to the U.S. now is no longer valid, since the Chinese labor is even lower. A similar fate also threaten the Latin American countries. Even the great hopes in the Chinese investments in Argentina and Brazil have fallen rapidly.
Meanwhile, the cheap goods of Chinese industries (in fact, outsourcing products transnational conglomerates in the U.S. and the European Union) glut of Latin American markets. Certainly, Latin American exports to China increased. But, first, it is almost exclusively of raw material. With this, you play just the way globalization old dependency relationship between center and periphery in a new configuration. Secondly, exports to and imports from China are in complete disequilibrium. In 2005, Brazilian exports to China were up 9%, imports, in turn, to 50%. The growing excess of imports from the Chinese economy exporting areas ranging from articles of fireworks, toys, textiles and shoes, to electronics, cars, airplanes, steel and chemicals. Latin America is threatened in this way, a new de-industrialization.
The draft of the anti-imperialist alliance between the oil-exporting countries, the "Bolivarian Revolution" and China proves fragile entirely when the last link in the global chain is included in the analysis. As the new oil wealth depends on industrialization of China, this depends on U.S. consumption. Here closes the circle. It is only the totally one-sided flow of exports across the Pacific supports the claim that growth. The flood of Latin American markets is only a secondary effect of the floods in North American markets with goods native of China. The North American consumption, in turn, is based mainly in the stream of transnational capital money, that is, nell'indebitamento. The U.S. have long been the country with the largest external debt of the world. The solvency of this debt is guaranteed, however, the U.S. position as the last world power, especially in view of the military machine without equal.
social and foreign policies of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, funded with petrodollars, are therefore, ultimately, by combining economic solvency and the imperial military power of their enemy. What a contradiction! In fact, Chavez has to pray that the evil power of the United States continues intact, since, otherwise, the house of cards collapses of widespread political dreams. It is probably the most irrational when the depth of this ideological constellation that causes darkening of the supposed new anti-imperialism to achieve anti-Semitic disorders. This shows once again that the struggle for social emancipation must be conducted only for a transnational movement that proceeds from below, without the assurance of national political power. The charisma-based anti-imperialist nationalism in the niches of the uncertain economic globalization can not claim any sustainability.
Original DER SCHWARZE Frühling DES ANTIIMPERIALISMUS
translation by LPZ
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