"The discovery of general laws in the field of economics is made difficult by the circumstance that observed economic phenomena are often affected by many factors which are very hard to evaluate separately. In addition, the experience which has accumulated since the beginning of the so-called civilized period of human history has -- as is well known -- been largely influenced and limited by causes which are by no means exclusively economic in nature. For example, most of the major states of history owed their existence to conquest. The conquering peoples established themselves, legally and economically, as the privileged class of the conquered country. They seized for themselves a monopoly of the land ownership and appointed a priesthood from among their own ranks. The priests, in control of education, made the class division of society into a permanent institution and created a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior... Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?"I am sure that as little as a century ago no one would have so lightly made a statement of this kind. It is the statement of a man who has striven in vain to attain an equilibrium within himself and has more or less lost hope of succeeding. It is the expression of a painful solitude and isolation from which so many people are suffering in these days. What is the cause? Is there a way out?... The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor -- not by force, but on the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules... Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of the smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society."
N-o sa ghiciti, asa ca va spun eu de unde sunt aceste fragmente. Din eseul lui Albert Einstein "Why Socialism", scris inca din 1949 (il poate gasi oricine pe net).... So, nu e vorba despre criza actuala, nici despre vreo forma de alienare sociala contemporana, e vorba de un viciu sistemic fundamental, acelasi de la inceputuri.
Despre 'strategiile" FMI poate ca n-ar fi rau sa va aruncati o data ochii si pe cartea lui Naomi Klein "Doctrina socului", sau pe cartea lui John Perkins "Confesiunile unui asasin economic" Poate asa veti intelege ca "mana nevazuta" e in fond o "mana lunga jmanglitoare", si nicidecum rezultatul unor legi obiective ale pietei. Cu atat mai putin intr-o piata care se bazeaza atat de mult pe speculatii bursiere, in interesul unor corporatii. Si mai putin se poate vorbi de vreo "mana nevazuta obiectiva", acolo unde ea e impusa cu forta extrem de subiectiva si arbitrara a tancurilor si avioanelor, prin ocupatie sine-die, jaf de resurse si teritorii, ori colonizari, cum se practica in Middle East ori Africa...
Dar ceea ce ma surprinde cel mai mult este faptul ca un ziar cu inalte pretentii intelectuale si un politician si jurnalist de formatie umanista sustine si admira "doctrina pumnului"! Si nu se poate spune ca e o simpla metafora, pentru ca se poate simti la propriu, nu la figurat, pumnul autoritatilor si gazele lacrimogene, si arestarile, impotriva celor care ocupa de mai bine de 90 de zile Wall Street, ca protestanti...Si asta a fost doar un exemplu, furnizat chiar de cea mai libera si neo-liberala piata din lume!