few days ago, Berlusconi spoke of the need to safeguard Alitalia yesterday and Giulio Tremonti, Minister of 'Economics of his government, and then big shot among his economic advisers, called the globalization of alleged madness enlightened minds.
Two Italian liberal right-wingers criticize the effects of globalization, as a result of the crisis across the world free-market fundamentalist ideology. In the U.S., home of this ideology, the Republican and Democratic candidates resume to speak of the need to strengthen the welfare state. Recently I read
Shock Economy - Capitalism disasters: a historical analysis and documentation of all events that have marked the rise of this ideology. Born in the University Chicago in the '50s has now found its leader and icon in his work with Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom . The free-market fundamentalists have spread throughout the world the conviction that a market left to itself to reach the full allocation of resources and spread the wealth around the world. Free market as the realization of democracy in the economic field. Cardinal principles of this doctrine are opening up to foreign capital and the steady reduction of government spending and the welfare state in clear opposition to the Keynesian economic theory in the postwar triumph.
The author, Naomi Klein, tells how these theories have found their first practical application Pinochet's Chile in the seventies and were imposed with harsh repression and the loss of democratic freedoms. Then also in Argentina and Bolivia in the free market fundamentalism has found a place but was always thwarted by the people and imposed by force. Then in the eighties had space at home with Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in Britain. Since then, the liberal virus has spread worldwide through the work of international financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank who are bent to the new doctrine. Each political crisis in the world has been exploited to facilitate the entry of foreign capital in weak economies and social systems. Poland, Russia, South Africa, local resources in China have become a source of enrichment especially for foreign entrepreneurs apart from the case of Russia where a huge industrial heritage created with public funds has become private property of a small elite. In this ascent the peak was reached in Iraq where essential services (water, gas, postal services, construction) have been entirely run by private Western companies often imported staff. In all these countries the wealth generated has filled the pockets of multinationals and has not had the merit of contributing to the economic welfare of the population. Even in Europe you have chosen this road widening jumping to the new union simply to facilitate the movement of capital and allow companies from industrialized countries to invest in countries with low labor costs.
Today's nefarious effects of this policy are felt with a progressive impoverishment of the weaker sections of society worldwide. Soros and Stiglitz Economise as critical of the line of the international financial institutions and push for the creation of a system of local development in poor countries open their markets before the rest of the world, just as they did in Italy without its non-protectionist barriers could never develop an industrial system that can compete with the rest of Europe. In the Western world increases the thrust of migration of poor people in the world and undermines the welfare state in name of a competitiveness with emerging markets where union protection is minimal. Also right around the world call into question the effectiveness of a globalization that is the claim of a corporate system in support of international capital, in Italy a growing movement calling for a return to public management of water, in the U.S. asks for public intervention to resolve the emergency and express admiration for the British National Health System in our country. It 'requires a new international policy which preserves the rights acquired in the industrialized world and enable countries in the developing world to grow especially in terms of general well-being and not just lordoe domestic product to international competitiveness. The people of Genoa
mistreated and humiliated he was right, another world is not only possible but also necessary.
