“If young people are proletarianized, it is not surprising that they end up becoming communists“Technology magnate founder of Pay Palintense spokesperson for the American extreme right, Peter Thiel is anything but a progressive. Diagnosing the social crisis that affects significant portions of North American youth, 5 years ago he already warned that “when 70% of millennials declare themselves prosocialists, we must do more than simply reject them by saying that they are stupid, capricious or indoctrinated; we should try to understand why.”
He Electrical threefo of Zohran Mamdani in New York He brought that text back to life and helped make it viral. Let no one be confused. An apologist for large technology multinationals and owner of a fortune of USD 20,000 million, its author is also a conservative elitist, who criticizes democracy and even questioned the female vote a few years ago. Logically, he rejects taxes on the rich and any state regulation.
Let him be the one to talk about the social consequences of North American capitalism It further confirms the decline of a social order based on the exploitation and plundering of the vast majority of the planet by a tiny minority.
The text also allows us to gauge the tensions that run through the imperial right. The New York elections were tremendous. Beyond Mamdani himself, they expose deep social discontent. An aversion – increasingly conscious – to the results of an economy based on private profitability. They also confirm the widespread rejection of the genocide carried out in Gaza by Israelwith the consent of the Democratic and Republican leadership. This repudiation is what took to the streets, with massive mobilizations, throughout these two years. He is the one who promoted combative actions by the student movement in the most prestigious universities on the planet.
World emblem of that right, Donald Trump walks through a rocky field at this time. After the tortuous end of an extensive Shut Down —which seems to have damaged the government more than the opposition—presidential arrogance collides with the past. Partially emerging into the light, the “Epstein files” reveal the link between the president and that American financier who, tied to his ties to power, ended up accused of sexual trafficking of minors and abuse.
The scandal cracks the world even more MAGAdamaged by numerous internal attacks. The last one has as its protagonist the young Nick Fuentes, who unashamedly practices Naziphilia, praising Hitler and condemning the Jews. The statements – issued in an interview with Tucker Carlson – aroused tension in a political space practically accustomed to uncritical alignment with the terrorist State of Israel.
Trump also fails in the fight against inflation. This Wednesday, a CNN poll showed the collapse of presidential prestige. A year ago, it had a positive rating of 9 points in this area. Now, the percentage fell to -26%. A collapse. The fact that should cause the most concern in the White House is that the unrest is escalating more among young people between 18 and 29 years old and among the Latino community. In this group of voters, in 2024 the Republican achieved a historic percentage. It was tied, however, to the hope of better economic management.
Drowned in the swamp, the American president It’s starting to be a kind of right-wing lesser evil. This is how Steve Bannon presented it this Wednesday, in his podcast War Room: “Have I told you that Trump is not perfect? He is an imperfect instrument, but endowed with divine providence. If you didn’t have it… you wouldn’t have anything.”
The mileist summer
That Overwhelmed Trump acts as the strongest support for Javier Milei’s management. It was in the White House where the initiative was born that—putting USD 20 billion on the table—prevented the financial catastrophe of the Argentine government. It was Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, who exploded X with posts intended to support the weakened Argentine Executive Branch.
This Thursday, in the same vein, a free trade agreement between Argentina and the US. The headlines anticipate a new leap in national delivery. We will have to spin more finely. However, the colonizing passion of Trumpism It finds a perfect complement in the will to submit that lives inside the Casa Rosada.
Enjoying a weak political and financial summer, Javier Milei indulges in self-praise. Seeking to solidify a political and social front that pushes the adjustment demanded by the business elitesends Diego Santilli to tempt governors. These willingly lend themselves to the game of political threads.
The official euphoria tries to distract from the structural problems facing the national economy. The existing dollars are from Trump and Bessent, not from Argentina. Aware, The IMF sends Luis Caputo to “accumulate reserves”.
Far from the tensions of the financial world, millions of people struggle every day, trying to make ends meet. Inflation of 2.3% appears as somewhat bland news. Considered an achievement of the Mileist administration, it contributes little to daily life, where indebtedness and late payment are increasing.
A recent Indec report stated that in the first half of the year, about 25% of households requested loans to support their expenses. Likewise, 51% bought in installments or on loan. The numbers of the burden do not end there: 40.8% of households used savings or sold belongings to meet consumption.
A country getting poorer. A leader campaigning for national submission. A world of rising tensions. that he milleist summer does not build the illusion of eternal stability.
Advice to a Peronism in crisis
Returning to the ritual suspended for a few weeks, the Peronist leadership indulges in cross reproaches. The word “self-criticism” floods discourses, analyses, and comments, as if repeating it were effectively exercising it. Incapable of offering a present of resistance, even less can it offer a future of social inclusion or growth.
The crisis makes advice easier. In it country of permanent opinionmany have a “solution” for Peronism. Exhibiting admirable plasticity, Iván Schargrodsky manages to speak of Mamdani’s election to suggest an even greater turn to the right. While celebrating the “slow recognition of the importance of the fiscal deficit,” he censures the idea of fighting inflation through “an interventionist approach to companies, regulating prices and profits from the Ministry of Commerce.”
A little angry, The Web UncoveringClaudio Scaletta contributes in the same direction. He does so by censuring Peronist economists who reiterate clichés” such as “that it is possible to pay foreign creditors without suffering serious consequences” or that “the problem of the level of the dollar is resolved with exchange restrictions.”
If you dig into social networks and media, you will find more “advice” pointing in the same direction. They all seem to share a matrix: the Reconstruction of Peronism supposes its political-ideological-programmatic rightwardization.
that path was started a long time ago. With and without clichés, the Peronist efforts They religiously respected the payments of the foreign debtboth to private creditors and international organizations. They also allowed a profuse flight of foreign currency, which went to increase private fortunes in tax havens. They implemented various forms of adjustment, following IMF directives and other international organizations.
More here, in Mileist times, from the plains, their leaders offered formulas such as “job update”the “efficient state” or the “wall” for teaching who dared to exercise their right to strike. Obviously, it is always possible to turn further to the right. That can hardly square with its historical banners of “Social Justice” and “Economic Sovereignty.”
The crisis of peronism —we said a few days ago— assumes a historical character. It nests in the structural limits of a political force that, in decline, only offers the administration of a national capitalism that is increasingly declining and increasingly subordinated to the great powers of the world. His class conciliation program cannot offer a future nor hope for the future.
Facing the national decline pushed by the ruling right and big capital imposes a task: that of build a new political force of the exploited; and new party of the working class that offers its own way out of the national crisis.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
