Faco questao de colar mais um extrato do "Manifesto" de Marx & Engels, que nao conseguem esconder o espanto e reverencia (shock and awe) diante do "prometeu desacorrentado", o bicho solto do capitalismo no seculo XIX. Ao contrario de outros textos, como o 18 Brumario, Marx nao foi longe no argumento hegeliano de que as conquistas de um modo de producao sao a causa dos seus problemas mais adiante. Segundo o Marx sociologo de outros textos, as contradicoes, choques e a emergencia de crises (ciclicas) no capitalismo levam a novos estagios de acumulacao. No Manifesto, o Marx profeta termina dizendo que as contradicoes se acumulam e que a crise sistemica e inevitavel. Nao ocorreu e e' pouco provavel que va ocorrer, basta observar a capacidade de adaptacao do capitalismo 'as crises passadas. Mas a descricao do processo de acumulacao burgues e seus desdobramentos no Manifesto sao belas, poderosas e iconoclasticas. Os parenteses abaixo sao meus.

" The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world-market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of Reactionists (!) it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. All old-established industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. (...) In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction (!), universal interdependence of nations. And as in material, so also in intellectual production. The intellectual creations of individual nations (tend to) become common property (in the long run). National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arise a world literature. (...) by rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immense facilitated means of communication it (o Kapitalismo) draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all walls, which it forces the barbaric obstinate hatred of foreigners (!) to capitulate."

Me pergunto, sera que a esquerda antiglobalizante leu mesmo os textos mais acessiveis de Marx ? Sera que eles entenderam alguma coisa e aproveitaram so o que lhes conveio ou estao adaptando preguicosamente um borrao da luta de classes para o cenario global ?

Este trechinho abaixo e dedicado aos defensores da reforma agraria e do modo de vida agro-pastoril (meu grifo, claro) :

" The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, greatly increased the urban population compared with the rural, AND HAS THUS RESCUED A CONSIDERABLE PART OF THE POPULATION FROM THE IDIOCY OF THE RURAL LIFE."

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- posted by Joao Francisco @ 9:24 AM