Revolution in Argentina

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Don't think this gets it, Michael.  In fact, Castro was totally 
>correct a few weeks ago when he said that they will have a hard time 
>finding a loco willing to be the next President of Argentina. The 
>fellow who has the job now made clear immediately that he didn't 
>intend to be President for more than 48 hours. Menem, a neoliberal 
>cockroach under something like indictment for corruption, was quite 
>ready to do a deal with De la Rua but no-one would have paid any 
>attention. A "coalition for the sake of the nation" speech on TV 
>would have had the same effect as De la Rua's state-of-siege speech 
>- a giant mob descending on the coalition ready to tear it limb from 
>limb. The Justicialists in Congress and the provincial governors 
>were not ready to follow Cavallo to the pit filled with boilingshit 
>he's in now.  A decisive moment was about two yesterday afternoon 
>when the two union groupings jointly announced an openended general 
>strike until the state-of-siege was lifted. Menem and all the hounds 
>of hell would by then have made no difference.
>
>Doug's posting of the World Bank summary of Argentina stories gets 
>the tone exactly of the establishment press...totally vacant. 
>No-one (except of course Castro, who spelled it out a couple of 
>weeks ago) dares say it -  the whole neoliberal thing has crashed 
>and burned. Convertability, budgetary restraint, free flows of 
>capital domestically and across borders, privatized compulsory 
>pension funds to replace state retirement programs, currency boards, 
>deregulation, privatization and "free markets". Smashed to pieces, 
>and the US graduate economics department trained creators of this 
>monster fleeing for their lives while the entire nation screams 
>ESAD. It's glorious.
>
>john mage

*****   From: "Gorojovsky" <Gorojovsky at arnet.com.ar>
To: a-list at lists.econ.utah.edu
Subject: Re: [A-List] Argentine spontaneous revolution

...What we have done in Argentina is simply to defreeze history, to 
put in the center of the political debate the political and economic 
dependency of Argentina.  We have opened up a window and a strong 
wind blew away all and each colonialist tenet.  Nobody cares any more 
of what would the IMF say or think about us.  Argentina has forced 
herself to think about a future with a sound economic structure, 
again.

This is a Copernican revolution, not simply a "revolution".  History 
has just been put in motion again.  Probably this is uncomfortable 
for many, who prefer to say that this is not a "revolution".  No. It 
was simply people in the streets, facing the troops - intellectual as 
well as material - of imperialism and our local sepoys.

No foreign owned public utility has uttered a word against the 
propositions that have been aired immediately after the 
"non-revolution" in the sense that they should be taxed with special 
contributions.  No neo-liberal economist has been able to give an 
opinion without public booing.  No bank has even dared to insist that 
we dollarize our economy.  People have not said "this is what we 
want", people have said "this is what we do not want any more".

Not enough, of course. Never is enough.

Bullshit

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
gorojovsky at arnet.com.ar   *****
-- 
Yoshie

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