Aqui vai uma tradução de um dos meus posts antigos para o inglês. [Here is a translation of one of my elder posts to english].
Tose are strange times!
Hugo Chávez has published in Cubadebate website an article with a breif resume of the latest most relevant events of the latin-american politics, whose denouement was the "installing" of new US military basis in Colombia. Chavez's incisive question was "who USA and president Uribe want to cheat by saying that Colombia's military basis do not represent a threat to Venezuela?".
Some years ago this question could be read as an exagerate egotism of Chavez's. But what about now, after Honduras? What every critical thought about the gorrilla-dictatorship in Honduras has to keep in mind is that the coup d'etat was not a plot hiddenly guided by bad men thirsty for blood! Things are pretty much as they appear: Obama is a nice guy! He smoked weed (and inhaled it!) with friends in university. His intentions are really the best possible and, certainly: better him than Bush. That is not the question.
The splits of the ongoing capitalist crisis, which has been happening since the seventies, when capitalism has reached its material limits of market expansion, when it has definitively consolidated itself on the entire globe cannot occur without oppening up a great fissure in democracy, its ideology par excelence!
Zizek, for example, in a lecture about his latest book written togeather with John Milbank (The monstrosity of Christ), by the way one of the best works of revolutionary philosophy of our time, talks about the process in which the US government and the FED decided for the emission of some 'x'illions of dollars to the financial system of United States. Whoever was accompaining this process since the 15th of september of the last year remembers: the decision for the emission of this irrepresentable amount of money was, in principle, vetoed by the yankee congress. As Zizek says, the message was quite clear: "We do not have time to play this democracy game right now! It has to be done, and that's all!"
It is this and only this that we are watching in Honduras: "we do not have time to interveine in the name of democracy in a country that has only, so far, exported bananas (by the 'help' of american multinational fruit companies, of course!)! We need to save GM and Co. firs!". (As Immanuel Wallerstein has said, Honduras lies amongst the latest priorities of the White House). Of course the small detail is that the "democracy war" on Iraq is still going. Everybody new USA did not really invade Iraq for the sake of democracy, against Saddam dictatorship (that guy who was publicly executed on youtube)... But ok! This was said, nobody could effectively protest aginst the invasion, United Nations proved itself, for the despair of the most honest liberals, totally unusefull, etc.
But now we are getting much more conscious that the real thing is Capital's global circulation and expansion, really! What does it mean, therefore, to install the military basis closed (or glued!) to Venezuela, the first of the latin-american countries to adopt an openly anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist politics after the continent "redemocratization"? Now that it doesn't matter, for Capital, to legitimize itself under the flag of democracy or any other reactionary dictatorship, only Lula can believe in a mere statement of president Uribe (Colombia) which "guarantees" that the basis will not act outside Colombia's territory. (Detail: we are talking here about dozens or hundreds of fighting planes that could make it from the source of the Amazon river to the Atlantic Ocean in twenty minutes or so.)
Besides, as i have already said in one of the latest posts, american left-wing wants desperately to see Obama's death! Now that Democracy versus Totalitarianism is a false opposition even to the Capital, that is to say, it shows itself as a false option not only to the marxist-hegelians most aware of the dialetical method, but even to the economic system, "Democracy, Human Rihts, Dictatorship, Military Men in power... It doesn't matter!" What would it represent, then, the murder of Obama? Certainly, he would not be murdered merely for the caprice of "intolerant racists from Tennessee". The right-wing would never loose any opportunity to take an even worse-than-Bush texan to power. An open coup d'etat in USA...
The best that could happen is Obama's renounce of his presidency with the condition that someone much worse would took over his place. Of course, "best" for Obama: after all, this attitude would give the appearence of legitimacy to this "power transition".
Recapitulating: Democracy cannot stand still by its own legs. Military dictatorship and a resilient position by one side and war on Iraq for the sake of Democracy by the other. The installing of military basis in Colombia glued to the most significant country in terms of political resistence agains imperialism and the Capital in Latin America. The possibility of an (explicit) ULTRA-conservative coup d'etat USA... The situation indicates, definitely, not a "much too good and safe" future, especially considering that this crisis is irrevirsible (because structural) and that the emergency state proclaimed by Giorgio Agamben has ironically started to manifest itself in Italy with Mr Silvio Berlusconi a mixture of a fascist with a comedy-movie-Mafioso: an amalgam between Mussolini and Danny DeVito.
Its better for us to think about Lula's roll in all this: while Bush was pulling the strings of imperialist geo-politics, Lula used to serve as a mediator between the confederate preisdent and Hugo Chávez. Now that we have Obama (who, i repeat, is a nice guy!) it seems that Lula is doing overtime in latin-american geo-political scenary. What about thinking on seizing the power once and for all and make the aliance that has already being formed between Chávez, Morales and Correa grow?
Tose are strange times!
Hugo Chávez has published in Cubadebate website an article with a breif resume of the latest most relevant events of the latin-american politics, whose denouement was the "installing" of new US military basis in Colombia. Chavez's incisive question was "who USA and president Uribe want to cheat by saying that Colombia's military basis do not represent a threat to Venezuela?".
Some years ago this question could be read as an exagerate egotism of Chavez's. But what about now, after Honduras? What every critical thought about the gorrilla-dictatorship in Honduras has to keep in mind is that the coup d'etat was not a plot hiddenly guided by bad men thirsty for blood! Things are pretty much as they appear: Obama is a nice guy! He smoked weed (and inhaled it!) with friends in university. His intentions are really the best possible and, certainly: better him than Bush. That is not the question.
The splits of the ongoing capitalist crisis, which has been happening since the seventies, when capitalism has reached its material limits of market expansion, when it has definitively consolidated itself on the entire globe cannot occur without oppening up a great fissure in democracy, its ideology par excelence!
Zizek, for example, in a lecture about his latest book written togeather with John Milbank (The monstrosity of Christ), by the way one of the best works of revolutionary philosophy of our time, talks about the process in which the US government and the FED decided for the emission of some 'x'illions of dollars to the financial system of United States. Whoever was accompaining this process since the 15th of september of the last year remembers: the decision for the emission of this irrepresentable amount of money was, in principle, vetoed by the yankee congress. As Zizek says, the message was quite clear: "We do not have time to play this democracy game right now! It has to be done, and that's all!"
It is this and only this that we are watching in Honduras: "we do not have time to interveine in the name of democracy in a country that has only, so far, exported bananas (by the 'help' of american multinational fruit companies, of course!)! We need to save GM and Co. firs!". (As Immanuel Wallerstein has said, Honduras lies amongst the latest priorities of the White House). Of course the small detail is that the "democracy war" on Iraq is still going. Everybody new USA did not really invade Iraq for the sake of democracy, against Saddam dictatorship (that guy who was publicly executed on youtube)... But ok! This was said, nobody could effectively protest aginst the invasion, United Nations proved itself, for the despair of the most honest liberals, totally unusefull, etc.
But now we are getting much more conscious that the real thing is Capital's global circulation and expansion, really! What does it mean, therefore, to install the military basis closed (or glued!) to Venezuela, the first of the latin-american countries to adopt an openly anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist politics after the continent "redemocratization"? Now that it doesn't matter, for Capital, to legitimize itself under the flag of democracy or any other reactionary dictatorship, only Lula can believe in a mere statement of president Uribe (Colombia) which "guarantees" that the basis will not act outside Colombia's territory. (Detail: we are talking here about dozens or hundreds of fighting planes that could make it from the source of the Amazon river to the Atlantic Ocean in twenty minutes or so.)
Besides, as i have already said in one of the latest posts, american left-wing wants desperately to see Obama's death! Now that Democracy versus Totalitarianism is a false opposition even to the Capital, that is to say, it shows itself as a false option not only to the marxist-hegelians most aware of the dialetical method, but even to the economic system, "Democracy, Human Rihts, Dictatorship, Military Men in power... It doesn't matter!" What would it represent, then, the murder of Obama? Certainly, he would not be murdered merely for the caprice of "intolerant racists from Tennessee". The right-wing would never loose any opportunity to take an even worse-than-Bush texan to power. An open coup d'etat in USA...
The best that could happen is Obama's renounce of his presidency with the condition that someone much worse would took over his place. Of course, "best" for Obama: after all, this attitude would give the appearence of legitimacy to this "power transition".
Recapitulating: Democracy cannot stand still by its own legs. Military dictatorship and a resilient position by one side and war on Iraq for the sake of Democracy by the other. The installing of military basis in Colombia glued to the most significant country in terms of political resistence agains imperialism and the Capital in Latin America. The possibility of an (explicit) ULTRA-conservative coup d'etat USA... The situation indicates, definitely, not a "much too good and safe" future, especially considering that this crisis is irrevirsible (because structural) and that the emergency state proclaimed by Giorgio Agamben has ironically started to manifest itself in Italy with Mr Silvio Berlusconi a mixture of a fascist with a comedy-movie-Mafioso: an amalgam between Mussolini and Danny DeVito.
Its better for us to think about Lula's roll in all this: while Bush was pulling the strings of imperialist geo-politics, Lula used to serve as a mediator between the confederate preisdent and Hugo Chávez. Now that we have Obama (who, i repeat, is a nice guy!) it seems that Lula is doing overtime in latin-american geo-political scenary. What about thinking on seizing the power once and for all and make the aliance that has already being formed between Chávez, Morales and Correa grow?
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