quinta-feira, 9 de janeiro de 2020

Nation-state, nationalism, instruments of capitalism (3rd part)


Summary

1. How capitalism created the nation-state

2 - Nationalism as an instrument of ideological control

3 - To each nation a nation-state?

4. Capitalism magnifies the nation-state in its process of consolidation

5 - The capitalist globalization reconfigures the role of the nation-state

5 .1 - Some segments taken from the domain of nation-states

6 - The State, local manager of the stratification of the Human beings

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5 - The capitalist globalization reconfigures the role of the nation-state
 
Globalization currently develops processes of subordination of nation-states[1] by the creation of multi-national or international norms and institutions, assuming that the nation-state level is too narrow.
Between the nation-state of the past and the unification and uniformity of the planet by multinationals and financial capital[2] where are peoples and people? And from an active and prospective standpoint, what attitudes and choices should people take?
During the predominance of industrial production, the need for labor was resolved in the first instance internally by young people or coming from the field in search of opportunity of livelihood and life.

On the other hand, in several countries, where industrial production was insufficient to absorb the population increases generated in the countryside, emigration was the alternative to live. Emigrants went to territories of European colonization and in a great process of capitalist development or, where the spaces were huge and the indigenous population scarce and marginalized (mainly Brazil, Argentina, Australia, USA or Canada). For example, a hundred years ago the Portuguese massively emigrated to Brazil or Argentina, the Italians for those countries and the US, such as people from many other European countries; in addition to African Americans moving from the US agricultural south to the industrial regions of New York or Illinois; a march drawn on the evolution of the blues.

Migrations entailed problems of social inclusion, xenophobic attitudes, and ghetto creation. On the other hand, it also resulted in pressure on the wages of indigenous workers because migrants, to survive in a foreign land, with difficulties in cultural and linguistic adaptation, tended to accept lower wages or more painful working conditions than those in their own country.

The production tended to include all phases in the same space, with thousands of employees in a single chain of command, accompanying the whole production, the various components to the final product. As transport was slow or irregular and logistics rudimentary, no major decentralization was possible and production would have to be concentrated, if not in the same factory, within the same city or limited to one region. For the same reasons, the fate of industrial production was mainly confined to close consumers, in a relationship that favored the widening of major conurbations. 

This concentration of production induced a large concentration of population and wage earners who lived near the factories, huddled in unhealthy districts. And this general context of poverty and large families[3] facilitated the union of workers against capitalists in the defense of their interests - wages, working conditions, working time - with protests, demonstrations, strikes. The response of the capitalists and the State was, invariably, one violent repression, with arrests and assassinations, targeting the workers and their organizations; in addition to that practiced through the “private” hiring of criminals aimed at reaching the most active workers in the organization of the protests. 

The globalization of capital has involved “its” workers in hard work, directly linked to value production and military service, as agents of the destruction of war, for the defense or enhancement of their homeland. Very early on the workers realized their own globalization and, that across the border, their comrades had the same problems with capitalists and governments, with the same attitudes against the working class; It was the time of the construction of the internationalist consciousness of the workers, which occurred along the development of the industrial production, the transport networks, the financial system and, the military technology.

This time of hard struggle just slowed down in the US and Europe, with the final of the great recession of the 30s, through a plan of public works, which only came to good overall results with the mobilization of workers and material resources to the war effort and which underpinned the emergence of Keynesianism. In Europe, the proliferation of fascist regimes spared few countries - Britain, Scandinavian countries, Benelux and France despite a strong fascist threat, declared with the establishment of the Vichy regime, after the Nazi occupation.

The international competition embodied competition between companies from various countries, wages and work conditions, as well as in the assault on the raw materials of colonized or dependent countries. New technologies - machinery, means of transport, sales and consumer promotion techniques - were quickly adopted by competitors, constituting ephemeral advantages, requiring, since the last quarter of the nineteenth century, new investments and mobilization of capital, with cross-border character. In turn, public investment was geared to harnessing ports, transport infrastructures, rail and road, canals, etc. as a way of ensuring the competitiveness of national capitalists.

Massive use of the automobile and mass transportation was possible only with the abundance of oil, with the creation of the pipeline and the tanker, whose size and load capacity reached an unprecedented 500000 t during the closing of Suez, not coming to realize the plans for ships with a capacity of one million tons. The ores, mostly of iron and copper, reached the industrial metropolises of Europe, North America, and Japan in huge bulk carriers, requiring specialized and expensive port structures. Recently, there was the relocation of heavy metallurgy and pollution for mining countries, ending units in richer countries that purchase only, processed products; leaving CO2 emissions in poor countries. 

Standardized container and container ships have substantially increased reliability and speed in loading/unloading, helping to reduce the cost of transport per unit of cargo. This has led to intermodal transport where several logistics operators are articulated for an optimized solution involving various modes of transport, from leaving the place of production to the place of destination, probably thousands of kilometers away.

At the same time, at each point of change of means of transport, such as at the place of origin or destination, stock management techniques (kanban, just in time…) are used to minimize storage time (and costs) and developing night work and permanent work, to make the investments profitable. An old business phrase has never been taken so seriously: "time is money"[4]

Linked to these technological developments in mobility and logistics is the current segmentation and relocation of material production. Rather than a single factory that incorporates all stages of manufacturing, current capitalism, segments this production into parcels, distributing them to geographically distinct locations. This segmentation in simple installments is necessary but, meaningless if isolated and, is applied to take advantage of low price work, by itself or, in relation to the required level of knowledge; it needs of places where any wage or labor demand is prohibited or suppressed by the government ; in situations where unemployment is high and any factory, even with low wages, is welcome  - Volkswagen in Palmela (Portugal) in the 1990s; in addition to other advantages, such as the price of energy, the abundance of water, the militarization of labor, the overexploitation of domestic work, especially of women and children; or , where there are corrupt unions and governments. The workers' movements that since the end of World War II had been adopting postures of collaboration with the capitalists and of accepting a very dubious and arbitrary role of the governments, suffered a brutal blow with the relocation, as factors of separation and competition between workers of diverse geographies. These are some of the great advantages of the relocation, related to the level of production to the multinationals so constituted, that act on a level far beyond the scope of a nation-state.

The number of large companies that build those networks draws enormous power over nation-states hosts, whose acceptance requirements is assured, because the use of the old weapon of nationalization not even make sense in the context of a targeted production components, per se, useless outside the network set up by the mother company. And, under that power over the nation-state, the multinational - usually located in a rich country - can even get local government subsidies to maintain employment to hundreds or thousands of workers and put in competition different countries, poor and unstructured, where are installed the relocated units.

The impotence of the vast majority of nation-states is even more evident you when using entities off-shore in the circuit, with formulas ingenious of overcharging or under-invoicing of elements produced in a country and billing issued in off-shore, for minimize tax burden and maximization of "value" for shareholders and management; that means, good conditions for profit formation, capital accumulation and, dividend distribution. A case released a few years ago[5] gave the lead to Swatch, a Swiss company whose export was materialized by an invoice issued by a company - consisting of a simple post office box - registered at the Madeira International Business Center, based in Funchal; hence Madeira officially figured as an exporter of watches… even if not even a pointer was made there. Of course, the "export of watches" can change instantly and often from “location”.

In the field of goods for final consumption, it can be offered for sale in various corners of the globe, by companies captured by leonine contracts, with a priori fixed prices, namely under franchise contracts, where the franchised invests in infrastructure, which is determined in detail, by the multinational company; and, having that company an assured performance with all the risk under the responsibility of the local franchised.

In the case of communications, financial, marketing, health, education, consulting… the dependency on the motherhouse does not differ except on the nationality of the workers; multinationals carry out some levels of decentralizations, supranational, national, regional, to have an agile sells machine or production management. And the internet has introduced a technical element of enormous shortening of information exchange, accelerating the processes of transformation and avoids the physical movement of workers and managers, as they did decades ago.

The banalization of air travel, especially tourism, facilitated the links between people and knowledge of other realities, despite the environmental impact (air pollution, noise); also the motorway networks, the high-speed railways, the urban infrastructure , all substantially expanded the area of operation and movement of people and goods , making porous borders and tendencies of separation that no one connects , but, one day … for a future framing in tourist itineraries; except at airports where governments fear of bombings and hidden bombs. 

The consolidation of the nation-state matrix has come to an end[6]; new nation-states no longer appear as in the period of decolonization. English overseas territories (the  Caribbean offshores, Gibraltar or Bermuda, Southern Atlantic territories, and Diego Garcia, leased to the US for military control of South Asia, after eviction from its population) as well as the French (in America, the Indian and the Pacific oceans) are small units with little or no population but with important marine resources or strategic positions, important for powers that still claim a global performance they no longer have. Except as U.S. accessories to configure the label of "international community".

In parallel with this segmentation that leads to the capture of nation-states by the networks of multinationals, the financial system and the capital of crime, is the construction of multi-national, essentially sectorial coordinating organizations that develop plans on specific matters applicable to their members. - NATO, WTO, WHO, SEATO, APEC… The most comprehensive have limited powers over their members (UN, OSCE, UNASUR, OAS, ECOWAS, EEA, SCO…). The European Union is the clearest and most developed case of multi-national, economic and political integration which obviously restructures and re-hierarchized spaces, maintaining huge differences in income and living conditions among the peoples, as well as within each nation-state; in addition to a shy autonomy claim towards the US who clearly are , overall, in a strategic loss. Still, it is not advisable politically, nor economically fruitful for the life of the people, a breakdown of the EU, mainly because it is not available a social and political movement with an alternative and democratic framework of goals and performances. Rightmost, the link to capital is clearly expressed; and, out of the right political area, there is no strategy other than maintaining small clienteles and raising public funds by focusing on short-term or media shows. 

The interest of the peoples is subordinated to the accumulation of capital and to the performance of the political classes in the above-mentioned organizations, where the nation-states are represented. In other cases - Bilderberg, Davos… - they fraternize, in a context of great secrecy, members of international organizations, leading political classes, CEOs of multinationals, big bankers, think-tanks …; beyond experimental convocation of politicians on the rise in countries of smaller relevance.  

Within  productive and financial infrastructure, of segmented production, a globalized capitalist class was developed - the known 1% of the world population, popularized by Occupy Wall Street movement[7] - using each nation-state like a space suited to the development of, one or another portion of a transforming process, which may be either the material manufacturing, the production of a service, the circulation of electronic impulses, generators of financial gain or, the installation of military bases.

On the other hand, technologies of information, social networks, internet, overtake State checks, dispensing its intervention or presence The process of globalization, of participation and sharing of information through networks, is completely devoid of any concern regarding the integration or densification of the intersectoral matrix within each nation-state, the balance of external accounts or a greater complementarity among the companies of that same nation-state; something that was of great concern at the time of the planning structures typical in the state apparatus in the Keynesian era and which continues in the ideas of the supposed leftists, as a rule, nationalists.

Thus, nation-states and their governments show they are small and powerless to deal with all these realities, competing with each other in the search for investments of multinationals, offering material, financial and tax facilities to attract investors; and show service in the upcoming elections. This dilution of boundaries and the power of the nation-states are resulting as primary reactions, regionalist or nationalist drifts, xenophobic purity,  religious  - evangelical sects, Christian, ISIS, the Taliban ... - with the support of significant parts of frightened populations; and to an auto-centered focus, that beyond the gods, focuses on family, sometimes in the community or, in the most important belongings (home, car, mobile phone, money in the bank ...) and, in US, the inescapable power of weapons. The awareness of the ineffectiveness of the political classes is shown by the growth of electoral abstention, as well as by the securitization, with the proliferation of guardians, in the entry of companies, public services, supermarkets... 

5 .1 - Some segments taken from the domain of nation-states

Of course, multinationals and the financial system are not preparing a secret application of an anarchist project, without the nation-state, nor state apparatus. National segmentation is useful for localized crowd supervision by the respective political classes; it serves to maintain a certain degree of competition, between geographical spaces, to secure investment by large multinational groups. The existence of own state structures - repressive, judicial and legislative apparatus - managed by a specific political class is a generating factor of nationalism, of antagonism vis-à-vis other nation-states and other peoples, for the benefit of those who know how to divide and reign. The International is not part of the hymns most sung by the capitalists from the base to the top.

The debt

Capitalism has for decades ceased to be a dynamic force in the field of material production, and now, is anchored in a financial drift, constituting rising cascades of debt[8] which is self- feeding, leaving behind a ballast of charges that, directly or indirect, are falling on populations; it is a strict group, closed, of speculators, seeking as instantaneous as possible for profits and, that no way favor the not involved in that voluptuousness; but, whose fall is transmitted to the general population, by the hand of governments and political classes close and paid by the said financial system[9]. The political classes, on one hand, surrender public goods and business to the sacrosanct private initiative and, by creating deficits as routine, issue debt securities that are quickly absorbed by speculators who surrender them as collateral to central banks. In the event of a global financial disaster, no one will remember to write off public debts, as nation-states will always have the population to repay them. 

Information Control

The needs of the global infrastructure where information circulates, almost instantaneously, are permanent and, derived in large part from the whims anchored in the proper functioning of the financial system; and, as a result, that global infrastructure is shared by a wide range of interests, from the common personal communication, access to information without warranty of widespread reliability and even less privacy. Those reservations about the circulating on the internet became more evident with the massive introduction of the famous fake news

Personal data and opinions are captured and explored by data collection companies, notably social networking, messaging or other platforms such as the famous Cambridge Analytics … whose mentor is Boris Johnson's instructor. Data mining, in real-time and huge amounts, allow the capture of personal information, where each person lives or circulates any moment, once the mobile phone, the GPS and the computer are antennas in a true service to those companies… as well as spy or police services. In turn, capital transfers, the tax evasion of the powerful, the accumulation of capital in offshore accounts are not disturbed because they constitute essential interfaces between the financial system, the criminal world and, the political classes. At the same time, the migration of the occupation of time watching TV - which required some physical immobilization - to the mobile phone, makes the use of the internet more extensive in space and more intensive in time; not to mention the emptiness of what invades the brains, especially of the young. In all these processes, the intervention of the political structures of each nation-state is minimal because the operators of these technologies have much greater intervention powers than those of the heavy physical and localized equipment. What matters to them is the fluidity compatible with market appetite for data collection and advertising. 

Treaties that depreciate nation-states

The recent formulations of the major treaties emanate from arbitral tribunals (a kind of parallel courts, outside the jurisdiction of any country) - Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA ) and Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) - place the rights of multinationals above those imputed to the nation-states . They are inserted on power transfer logic to large capitalist enterprises, putting the nation-states, in a subaltern situation face those; any transgression results in high penalties in favor of multinationals that ultimately will correspond to higher tax burdens or public debt, which will burden incomes of the population or promote reduction of public social spending, on behalf of the sacrosanct balanced budget.

A global monetary system without currency 

The availability of cards with chip, custom use, debit, credit, purchases of goods or services, enables information to commercial companies, as for the global financial system networks on housing, types of consumption, income, personal relationships; hence there is a long pressure to generate card buying and payment habits, an ongoing trend that will lead in the medium term to the abolition of physical money ... accused of having a high cost of production and circulation.

Its abolition will also make disappear all and any monetary movement beyond what is embedded in the financial system databases and intermediary companies that live around, as the "old" type cards Visa and many others; it will be the domain of Big Brother and the desired end of "informal economies". A serious flaw, the product of computer sabotage, or war, can put millions of people with no way to buy or trade anything, with catastrophic consequences that will put the old direct exchange back on the ground. 

On the other hand, since money is only symbols circulating on the Internet and controlled by the financial system, states no longer issue notes and coins and the central bank no longer has money to manage; just as the mass of values embodied in so-called derivative products is not managed today. 

Anticipating this scenario, a virtual currency type bitcoin or libra (currency announced by Facebook), point to a near future, the existence of means of payment with a total intangibility, based on chains of electronic impulses, constantly moving and accelerated, embedded in the logic of self-reproduction, cumulative, disconnected from materiality and any nation-state. 

Nation-states have traditionally been thirsty for controlling people and their incomes. This new situation of dematerialization of the currency and its full integration into the globalized financial system means that the state apparatus will also introduce all its flows, all acts related to its functions - taxes collection and maintenance of health services, education, application of justice, military and police corps ... under the control of the financial system. Is it the abolition of state power and the absolute dominance of the globalized financial system? 

The education  systems

Standardization of education systems is an essential desire for big business that wants to broaden the mid-range and upper recruitment base by introducing a common way of thinking and acting that allows a standardized "employability" that can serve any multinational enterprise, anywhere on the planet. In China, and according to the tradition of producing a competent public administration (dating back to the 14th century), "leadership academies" such as CELAP in Shanghai, CELAJ in Jingaushan and CELAY in Yan'na have been created since 2005 following similar institutions opened in Singapore; even students continue to go to … Silicon Valley, to familiarize with innovation. Two worlds, two single-purpose systems - maximizing capital accumulation or, more popularly, GDP growth, in the context of commercial, technological and geopolitical competition that could lead to global or regionalized proxy wars.
Teaching is intended to produce value creation agents, armed with the necessary entrepreneurship that allows a winning competition against the competitors, with a spirit of sacrifice that subordinates family and personal life; and yet it will remain in a precarious context because labor rights are aberrations today. Management techniques are presented as ways to produce productivity gains, competitiveness, through computer programs with adequate rigidity to avoid discussions, doubts and, creativity on the part of the users. Integration into obedience and sacrifice as a rule.

In this normalized context, the social sciences or the arts are depreciated as instruments for understanding reality because, as they are not inserted in the competitive environment, they do not have "employability".

For young people, higher education is a factory of obedience, of neoliberal format and very standardized. Those who remain critical will also have to keep quiet to secure the job and, whoever does not restrain himself from his insignificance is devalued and pushed into useless bureaucratic tasks - the Bullshit jobs[10] - in the margins of value creation.

6 - State, local manager of human stratification

The existence of a framework of political dominance requires a segmentation of the society - and every person – in the convenient aspects to a peaceful continuity of the condition of a subject. To do this, each helot must be transformed into a zealot of the motherland and capital, without the awareness that he behaves like an idiot.
In very distant times, the first human being whom others believed to be able to foresee the storms and heal the sick, gained authority over the rest, as he was given the power to communicate with the unknown, powerful beings who ruled the earth, rain and drought, life and death, what happened on earth or the stars. These predestined, in communication with the unknown, deserve the respect of the rest who, in their turn, they thought they needed priestly support[11] to intervene with the Beyond to give them rain, good crops, and good health; that would be the subject of human sacrifice or animals, to elevate the power of the gods and their intermediates, removing, therefore the recourse to the divine intervention to puerile questions. 

Thus was found the priestly caste, whose dedication to the revelation of the divine moods was a difficult work which the community could not do, nor could dispense; hence it was accepted his exemption from the hard work of securing his livelihood. 

To ensure a life well, with good or bad harvests, independently of the mood of the gods, the priestly caste demanded the people a material contribution (grain, cattle, work or currency). Having into consideration ordinary people do not always want or could give their contributions, the priestly caste created one coercive power and the means to ensure it - armed individuals to exercise tax collection functions, to defend the priests riches against invaders and, oblige people to work for the realization of the appropriate "investments" to the visibility of the greatness of the kings-priests for eternity. 

From this merger started the beginning of the legitimation, exclusively, of fiscal exaction, the exercise of coercion and violence in which the royal and priestly powers were merged, since immemorial time; and for this to happen legitimacy is essential to be accepted by those who will be subordinate under those hierarchical structures. Through the centuries and in any form of society, the emergence of hierarchies has been concomitant with dominance relations; and the endogenization of these social and mental structures in the various peoples and all historical eras following the "specialization" of functions referred to above. Over the centuries, a long-term state of mind - an empire - has sedimented itself, in which some in each generation stands as rulers, deciding for all others, and in which this domain is taken naturally, an inherence of the species; or, who accept this preponderance, this power, by comfort or fear, and integrate within themselves that state of mind, reproducing it, accepting this division between dominant and dominated, as part of human nature. This imperial spirit is transverse in time and space, revealing itself at the moment when someone emerged as having powers of communication with the beyond and when this was accepted by the others, thus emerging the primordial social division between human beings. 

Thus began the creation of a structured power of human groups, elevated to a status of dominance over the rest of the population, by the sacralization of their functions from which the imposition of fiscal duties and the obligation to perform military functions, in a context of acceptance of a general duty of obedience and submission to this elite; with greater or lesser use of the sacred. Those who did not belong to the caste were segmented by the caste as worker, taxpayer, soldier, spectator or just a thing if they were slaves; a classification that has changed designations - but not functions - according to historical times. 

Conversely, in the twentieth century, according to René Dumont, in the context of colonized Africa, there were three structuring entities in the lives of peoples - le militaire, le missionnaire, le marchand; the first as aggressor, the second to generate domestication and the third to plunder.

Of course, Dumont's analysis reflected the racist behavior of Europeans, to deal with "wild", without specialization but, needing of domestication, to be integrated into the wonderful society of work. Race is especially valuable as a way of assignment of the toughest tasks and very low price to a population for this purpose, subordinated, infantilized.

In what we call market democracies, power is exercised less brutally and more mellifluously in the domestication of peoples. The regular election of leaders as representatives of the people in the selection of caretakers for the fulfillment of the multiple duties assigned to the people; it is intended to be done peacefully, with consent, as a rule, by the alternation between two little differentiated parties. "Something needs to change for everything to stay the same" (Giuseppe Tomaso di Lampedusa). 

In the view of dominant political and economic structures, human beings are, in the first instance, classified by their nationality, by the nation-state normally attributed to them at birth. The absence of this primary registration will have as consequences real non-existence and is complemented throughout life by many other frameworks, granted by the State in its various facets, as undertakings for the financial system and even, instances of other nation-states. This gives rise to the appreciation (positive or negative) that is given to each person who is thus controlled and conditioned throughout his or her life, leaving even post mortem duties to the heirs. 

However, there are several situations of double, triple… nationality, especially for those who are wealthy. And also there are situations of absolute refusal, targeting poor or refugees, in situations of humanitarian care; then nationality matters little or is even anathema. 

This conditioning to humans is multifaceted. In the first instance, it shows the segmentation of individuals according to their relevance on the scale of capitalist returns in general;

·        At the top are the individuals who manage the reproduction of capital, either directly as participants in the production process or through intervention in the circulation of goods and capital;
·        The following are individuals who - not performing any productive functions - are essential for the maintenance of the capitalist system and its political structures. In this context, are included the political classes and members of the apparatus with functions in the area of repression, ideological or social control and the judicial strains. They are, as a whole, a simple cost, but profitable from a systemic point of view;
·        Who follows are the performers of working functions, subordinated workers,  incorporated in the corporate hierarchy or the State apparatus; and that, in turn, they are staggered, according to their specializations and labor links, placing at the end, the most undifferentiated or precarious;
·        At a lower level are those who are unnecessary or surplus to the system but who marginally allow the viability of less noble sectors of capitalists with lower profit rates, such as the "social economy"; or the subsidized unemployed who are obliged to pay a perform as "social work";
·        In the end, at the level of the hierarchy built by capital, are the tout court surpluses - unemployed, especially the long-term ones or, pensioners - for whom the system reserves emigration, deprivation, shortening life, invisibility and, disappearance.
Each individual from his birth record presents himself as a single and indivisible monad; however, this monad has the form of a polyhedron, with many faces, using essentially according to the interests of capital accumulation and its managers, at the level of State or other instances, political, economic, social or ideological. Thus, each person is considered in a fragmented way, according to the functions in which capitalism integrates and uses it (or does not want to use it). Such use may be made from a strictly economic point of view as a producer, consumer or debtor; as a political entity, with rights and duties; as thinking being - in the development of immanent capacities; or, as manure to recycle, more slowly in a cemetery, or by diluting in a crematorium, leaving as remnants, a gray box and the tax registration. 

Materially, each person is present in a great diversity of databases, and parameterized from various angles, with some aspects here and others there, according to specific analyzes performed on huge masses of information. That information is held by the State, the private consultants and, increasingly, the global big data compilers who sell it for commercial, trend-setting, political, military or media manipulation.

Let us now look at the main facets of this polyhedron that mirror the fragmentation of individuals according to the interests of capitalism as a whole and certain segments of its economic, political or ideological structures, in particular: 

·        The consumer is a courted individual, land seen through the potential of his income or the bank cards he has.
Rich or poor, the consumer is a lode to exploit, to charm with the satisfaction of obvious or other needs resulting from display, the satisfaction of small jealousies, the occupation of more or less cultural activities, such as idiotic or barbarous distractions, where the protagonists reveal themselves in their most beastly repressions. The market is vast, creative, comprehensive, insinuating, mellifluous and amoral; it flatters the consumer only as long as he has means, current or future,  to use in consumption.
·        The collaborator is the designation of the wage earner in the novilingua of neoliberalism. It is no longer the worker, the wage earner, the labor force, the factory worker, or another epithet revealing the subordination and antagonism towards the boss, who is now also metamorphosed into "employer. These designations embody intended to iron out the social contradictions and point the "employer" as a successful case of struggling creator of value and employment, using as a resource the "collaborator", a happy marriage that, with the entrepreneurship of both parties will promote the creation of wealth and employment, per omnia secula seculorum. The employer is a benefactor because he creates employment and the employee will be the devoted and eternal thankful, for the mercy of the job ... until the dismissal comes.
The collaborator designation is a figure appearing in the business "literature", in documents and sites of the companies and also under the resource designation, knowing that is disposable, a gender of inflatable, which both fills as it can drain out. Employees are often dismissed as unemployed as a result of internal restructuring while not becoming (yet) a waste.
·        The debtor is a usual consequence of employee and consumer situations as it is the income associated with the first category that makes banks open to credit for consumption. Those who are not collaborators do not get the banks' collaboration, even though it justifies their need for credit; Nor he will have access to credit cards, with those fabulous designations such as "gold", "golden", "platinum," "premium", which serve to elevate the customer's ego and convince them of his great importance to the institution.
Banks are always beckoning - credit for homes, cars, travel, furniture, computers, anything that can anchor the income of any unwary to bank repayment for decades. Any bank will be happy to have, for several decades, a guaranteed income, a mortgage and insurance in its favor, paid by the debtor, happy for access to property and consumption.
Particularly due to the deference of the political class, the employees and consumers also carry the burden of State debt, contracted by the political class and immediately socialized under a phrase as stupid as common as false "the State is all of us".
·        The access to the glorious category of taxpayer is assumed at birth; the first diaper pays VAT; and that's just a smooth, unconscious beginning of the financial obligations to the State, the nation-state manager. The famous Tax ID Number (TIN) is the pivot that will accompany each other's lives and even burden the lives of children or heirs. The shadow is extinguished with death, but the TIN does not.
Behind the TIN is always the State, thirsty to increase the amount of taxes to bridge the deficit, to invest and helps the competitiveness of the capitalists; since without those, the figure of the collaborator would not exist. In other words, God, after creating the capitalist, decided to create the collaborator to serve that one.
In his role as a patriotic taxpayer, the individual will provide the State so that the political class can distribute welfare, tranquility… to everyone. For the illiterate in politics, the payment of taxes is a change from the pocket of the pants to the pocket of the coat because the State is a common house. And paying taxes is supporting governments to help national banks and guarantee… national independence.
·        In the bad show that is what we call market democracy, to the adult population is offered the voter status, which thus decides who will appropriate the proceeds of tax collection; knowing that, as a rule, the voter generally has no right to be a candidate. To become eligible, the voter must belong to a party oligarchy, enjoy the sympathy of the party boss, or fill the party's treasury with important donations.
·        In addition to the aforementioned functions, the market offers elements for the filling of time, fixing the individual in activities as a spectator. Attentive, the market offers many alternatives for the viewer, all of them encouraging a consumer activity, the appropriation of goods. A spectacle is mounted around each person to integrate and qualify all the moments ass acts of consumption; a consumption that does not satisfy other needs than the capture of the available time, especially through the image and a primary hedonism and, little reflection; a consumption covering the free spectacle of wrestling provided by the political class.
The capitalist system is invasive and would not be content to free people after a day's work; it appropriates their time not devoted to the production of goods or services and, to this aim, has increased the relevance of the part devoted to ideological content, the flattening of deductive capacities, the diversion of activities of social or political protagonism, the generation of social numbness. Capitalism seizes space-time, rebuilding it incessantly; it is a biopolitical control system. The market offers everything, makes everything available, it is a complete system that, like an amoeba, does not need the other to reproduce. The market is the system and the system is the market. 

Like any element necessary for commodity production, man has a period of maturity as an instrument for the reproduction of capital; another, where it is downright productive; and a third to which the theory of decreasing yields is applied, where an increase in age corresponds to a lower productivity for the system as a whole.

Including people as waste has several origins. They are the oldest, with a retirement pension increasingly close to biological longevity and increasingly short replacement incomes; a range of the youngest, unskilled or unskilled by the "market", with occasional occupations or away from their specializations… so uncompetitive; and those that increase the flow of refugees, of wars, hunger or the environmental impacts of the disruptions contained in the functioning of "markets" and subjected to humiliation, violations, underpaid and precarious work, always at the risk of racist violence or of expulsion. 

In the present time of financial capital predominance, value generation through the production of goods and services leads to various problems in which human beings are parameters rather than objectives. Information technologies and robotization reduce the incorporation of direct labor into the production of goods and services, and what is incorporated carries higher qualifications; this results in increased productivity, increased competition and large populations in unemployment, underemployment, and the abandonment of populations based outside of the advanced and globalized capitalism, living in the midst of all needs, insecurity, ecological and climatic problems. 

The ecological problems[12] are growing and become popular but within some passivity or technocratic approaches contained within the operating parameters of the capitalist system as well in the naive belief in a more committed role of the political classes. If this continues to be the case, capitalism will do something to prevent environmental catastrophes, damage to the insurance (and financial) sector, taking into account the return of invested capital and investor expectations. It will put on stage technologies and measures with environmental impacts less harmful, taking into account various assumptions, such as proper financial amortization of investments present on the ground and impacting negatively; the opportunity to invest large capital in new, "environmentally friendly" technologies as is often referred by technocratic, tolerant ecologism towards capitalism; and will seek to outsource to the poorest countries and regions of the capitalist periphery, the most environmentally damaging activities, counting find there the tolerance, elements of political and economic disruption or, the presence of clearly venal political classes. 

Solutions that can be called ecofascism are foreshadowed, with a world population diminished from its present "excess" to 1000/2000 million human beings in the sign of the century[13]; or even 600 million, a figure that was pointed out at a Bilderberg meeting[14]where secrecy is the rule.

Nation-state, nationalism, instruments of capitalism (1/3)

Nation-state, nationalism, instruments of capitalism (2/3)


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[3]  The large number of children led to the designation of factory workers as proletarians, even though child mortality was very high, as opposed to low life expectancy.
[4] To the extent that Montu-branded 28-hour standard watches have been invented and produced by the Japanese company Sports Train (quoted in Anselm –Jappe et al. El Absurdo Mercado de Los Hombres Sin Cualidades)
[5] “Suite 605” from João Pedro Martins
[7]  David Graeber's Democracy Project

[9]  Obama has tried for several months to contain the repercussions of the subprime crisis on the financial environment but has stopped resisting and has decided to prevent a more catastrophic recession with a substantial increase in public debt.

[10]  Bullshit Jobs: A Theory” - David Graeber


[11] For many centuries in Christianity, masses were said in Latin which the Most High would surely know, but ordinary believers did not; as a result, the intervention of the priests
[13] Requiem for a Species  de Clive Hamilton


[14] Pointed by Susan George in El Informe de Lugano

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