Paradoxes of the Right. Imperialism as a victim of empire
November 16, 2020
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
In 2016, many communities of the Mixteca Poblana held processions and Catholic masses so that Donald Trump lost the elections, the towns saw with concern that the anti-Mexican rhetoric of the Republican radicalized the measures that Barack Obama implemented during his administration. The separation of families, the unjustified expulsions, the destruction of the American dream in many people, generated widespread concern about those who threatened a total wall, the expulsion of all Mexicans and the mortgage to the country to pay the costs. What will the government and society in Mexico do if they deport millions of compatriots? How will the wall be paid for? Is Donald Trump going to invade Mexico to end drug trafficking? In retrospect, as the Guadalupano pricommunists say that God is a PRI and a pro-Yanqui, it is no longer known what happened. Either God listens too late or, outright, Mexicans also dislike him.
The defeat of Donald Trump was a matter of time, he did not have the capacity to create public policies to subdue the financial capitalism of his country, he lacked vision to subdue the bureaucracy, the intelligence apparatus and the armed forces in the mission of containing the decline of North America. Trump's common sense failed to consider that only leadership was enough to mobilize the public apparatus and rescue the State. Financial and globalizing capitalism, in conjunction with dual progressive movements financed by the pragmatic right wing and a set of bogus media, has led it to bankrupt itself in the possibility of a hiatus in extractive post-neoliberalism reactivated with Joe Biden.
The failure of Donald Trump is the loss of the North American State and a clear message for nations like England, Russia and China, sovereign and imperious in the idea of keeping their economies protected. The power of the swallow capitals has been joined by the chapellanocracy of the Catholic Church which, precisely in secrecy and political anarchy, has managed to sustain much of its power
For some, Joe Biden represents the civilization of democratic politics and globalized capitalism. It does not seem. The geopolitics of the Second World War is crumbling and there is no forecast that allows us to understand the new scenario where the Empire tries to impose itself. The Empire (Hardt / Negri) is the model of portfolio capitalism, invisible, virtual, which seeks to escape state control and is the promoter of an anarchist neoliberalism: that which is said to be capable of promoting coups d'état, or anything else, to get the lithium anywhere. The empire has defeated imperialism just as it defeated communism. The global health crisis is more serious than the fall of the USSR in 1989. It is urgent to slow down financial globalization, strengthen the state and keep nations safe. Yankee imperialism leaves its place to the empire of hidden investments.
For Mexico, the situation in the United States is more than important. The experience after stabilizing development indicates that Bankers, Businessmen and the Catholic Church always operate against popular interests. Reflecting on one of the youngest and most dynamic administrations, the six-year term of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, errors in his administration can be detected, according to the self-criticism of his works, and reflected in the situation that, as in the case of Donald Trump, can lead to the failure of the project: not to eliminate the nomenklatura, agree to the reform of art. 130 constitutional and depend on financial capitalism.
Since 1994 the Mexican state has not been able to restore itself and the national economy has collapsed. Salinas has retreated from neoliberalism and points out the importance of an economy of social liberalism conjured from financial capitalism / empire and with a strong state. The lesson that the transexenal project cost CSG has been repeated with the dragon effect, zamba, tequila, y2k, the war against drugs, etc. Extractivist neoliberalism, like financial anarchism, are enemies of humanity and have an extreme individualism that can end everyone.
Luc Boltanski points out the importance of a reality where the political sphere provides security, certainty and legality –in some way- to citizens. Now all that seems to be falling apart. The enemies of the State: capitalists, criminals and secret societies, seek ungovernability and confrontation, the exception of the rule of law, colonialism and the sovereignty of the powers that be. That is the reality that the United States will dominate and that has been inserted in Mexico since the late 1990s. The empire represents the death of politics, law, society and true responsible freedoms. Controlling uncertainty is more than necessary in humanitarian crisis situations such as the one we are currently experiencing; however, the empire hides itself and weakens the states. The order of chaos is what financial capitalism (Naim) seeks. The death of the State implies absolute subjection to the criminal powers. Neither the businessmen nor the Catholic Church, nor the bankers nor the progressive social movements, will save the people, who has to do it is the political community par excellence: the State
The Mexican political system is extremely weak compared to the variables of the United States, nature and health. The Mexican right, even in its fascist aspect, has never cared about the strength of the national state. An influential commentator on social networks, Patricia Navidad, shared on Twitter during the US electoral process: “The so-called Mexican right supports the US left, they say they do not want socialism, communism or dictatorship, but they support and defend Biden who comes with an agenda New World Order, communist, dictatorial and tyrannical ”. In the same vein, Eduardo Verástegui questioned Ricardo Anaya's support for the Democratic Party and its candidate.
In CSG and Trump López Obrador must look at himself. Morena has barbaric cannibalism and brutality, the lack of a political project and governance is increasingly evident. One thing is clear from the brief experience of Morenoist governments at the state and federal level. Democracy is secular or it is not democracy. The axis of religiosity was more than important in AMLO's proposal to achieve diverse alliances that would allow him to come to power. However, most of these groups have worked only for their interests and have contributed nothing to social transformation. The problem of governance in Mexico is not having a political participation apparatus that is superior to the corporatism of the Catholic Church and the economic concern of businessmen.