quarta-feira, 9 de março de 2011

Democracia no Canadá? A Verdade sobre o G20

O Canadá sempre foi um "exemplo" de país capitalista democrático. Seus cidadãos usufruem de um sistema público de educação e de saúde, desfrutam um dos mais altos padrões de vida do mundo, desfrutam um dos níveis de violência urbana mas baixos do planeta ... mas ... seria isto reflexo de uma democracia? Adorno dizia que a verdade aparece nos momentos extremos. A última reunião do G20 em Toronto foi certamente um destes momentos extremos que delatam a veradade. Confira aqui o documentário impressionante produzido pela CBC News sobre como de fato operam a democracia e a polícia no Canadá. O saldo: em menos de 48 horas, 1.100 pessoas foram presas e imediatamente enviadas para cela especiais sem qualquer acusação.

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Entrevista com Eric Hobsbawm sobre Marxismo e Globalização

"the crisis of Marxism is not only the crisis of the revolutionary branch of Marxism but in the social democratic branch too. The new situation in the new globalised economy eventually killed off not only Marxist-Leninism but also social democratic reformism – which was essentially the working class putting pressure on their nation states. But with globalisation, the capacity of the states to respond to this pressure effectively diminished"

"What is still possible is that the working class forms, as it were, the skeleton of broader movements of social change. A good example of this, on the left, is Brazil, which has a classic case of a late-19th-century Labour party based on an alliance of trade unions, workers, the general poor, intellectuals, ideologists and varying kinds of left [wingers], which has produced a remarkable governing coalition. And you can't say it's an unsuccessful one after eight years of government with an outgoing president on 80% approval ratings. Today, ideologically, I feel most at home in Latin America because it remains the one part of the world where people still talk and conduct their politics in the old language, in the 19th- and 20th-century language of socialism, communism and Marxism"

- Eric Hobsbawm - The Guardian

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