Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Strauss-Kahn and arrogance of power

Must be provided even with the worst enemies and therefore it must be hoped that the defamatory allegations against Dominique Strauss Kahn prove to be unfounded. Unfortunately for him, however, it seems that this is not the super manager and the rest on other occasions had indicated some willingness to make use of women's bodies regardless of the consent of the unfortunate for whom he directed his "attention".

There is no shortage of conspiracy thesis Besides denouncing the machinations against the future presidential candidate. However it is for the U.S. judiciary to ascertain what actually happened in that room Sofitel Hotel at Times Square. The painful and unedifying affair, however, offer some reflections on the right.

It may be in fact not entirely inappropriate to a parallel between the apparent propensity to rape the Director of the International Monetary Fund and the content of the policies applied by that institution. Which is notorious for some time in the less economically developed countries and recently also in Europe, for example in Greece, for content that requires the anti-popular choices, bonds, access to loans, to cut social spending, limiting environmental regulations, to give green light to foreign investment, to demolish the school and health care, privatization of public goods, etc..

Already 26 May 2002, moreover, the Court of the rights of the people had made a thorough and documented decision on the foreign debt, which it attributed to the Fund, as well as the World Bank and other international financial institutions, the commission of a series of crimes, including the perception of usurious interest, support to dictatorial regimes, mentioned the imposition of structural adjustment programs and the violation of several rules of international law.

Among other things, is secondary among the main victims of these policies are just the women and their paths to liberation. More generally it is to all those whose intellectual faculties are not irreparably damaged by the servility and ideology, which we currently live under a real dictatorship of finance capital.

See on the works of great interest as Finanzcapitalismo Luciano Gallino (Einaudi 2011) Do not steal or excellence libretto by Paolo Prodi, Guido Rossi (Princeton 2010). Now, the institutional structures governing the practice of this power is partly formed by their own institutions like the International Monetary Fund.

And 'quite by chance that the person who is the head of that institution, suffering from the arrogance of power, guilty of behavior expression, in terms of interpersonal relationships, the same arrogance of power that the institution in question, strong money, showed up and of international relations? It is therefore impossible parallels between Strauss Kahn and other well-known arrogance of power, as our good Bunga Bunga (at least so far, it seems, however, did not have to resort to rape to satisfy their boundless lust), which parallel well was formulated for example by Marco Travaglio? It seems in fact that the events "private" of the powerful and the kind of deep thinking that they reveal, for example in the way you approach the body of others, and they borrow, are not completely dissociated from their public role, especially in the unfortunate age we live in the primacy of money, which is the whole planet to be raped daily by finance capital and the institutions it functional, such as the International Monetary Fund ...

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