Luis Antezana writes in El Diario:
The wild capitalism is consolidated in Bolivia
While Bolivian analysts engage in empirical speculation about abstract concepts, the country’s economy advances in irrepressible form by way of capitalist development, although most is wild capitalism than a capitalism with maturity and reduces the sacrifice of laborers and workers in general.
In fact, recent social developments, as the active presence of the carriers, the pressures of the guilds, the growth of the cultivators of the coca leaf, the imposition of sectoral economic measures of labor groups, the presence of new economic laws, etc. have come to demonstrate two aspects: firstly, that all socialist offers that were done by the Government for several years, have fallen on deaf ears and there is no slightest trace of them, while, in the second place, and the economy of the country marches with no less aggressive intensity via the capitalism.
In this general picture, the State is less that marching in the opposite direction of the story, without that their plans are met at minimum proportion. Moreover, Socialist bids and proclamations against capitalism have no lower handle in the reality and the wind takes them away.
The objective demonstration of capitalist development in Bolivia (that small bourgeois is at stage of a capitalist democratic revolution) is expressed in the development of the private property, the practice of money instead of barter trade, payment of wages according to the supply and demand work, the pricing of articles of prime necessity by the peasants (who practice the laws of the market) on one side, and disregard the provisions dictated by the Government, as well as their threats apply the misleading populist ideology to build socialism on the original indigenous community, without going through the stage of capitalist development, on the other.
Actually, the Government, in a conscious or unconscious way, encourages the development of a savage capitalism and nothing is done to reduce their effects on many workers who do not enjoy rights, are exploited in a merciless manner, do not have social benefits, can not unionize, puts them under orders of the old system, etc. By contrast, measures that hold that Darwinian economics dictates, is to say that it is not in accordance with reality and not considered, not far-that Bolivia does not suffer both capitalism and lack of development of the capitalism.
Finally, even the Pope Francisco (which received in his office the President Evo Morales), is against this wild populism and expressed in this regard that it is “an economy that kills”, which “cannot be that it is not news that an old man dies of cold in the street and yes it is news when there is a fall of two points in the stock exchange”. His Holiness said that this economic system is “unfair from the root, because the economy is dominated by the law of the strongest, being a new invisible tyranny, sometimes virtual, dominated by a deified market, in which prevails the financial speculation, a branched corruption and a selfish tax evasion”, an unmistakable diagnosis of a populist ideology.
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