rt에서 글 두개를 뽑앗습니다.
서구 주류 언론의 기사와 다르지 않습니다.....극우, 포풀리스트, 아르핸티나의 트럼프, 제2의 피노쳇..
좋은 묘사는 없습니다.
Milei 가 누구인가??....라는 것 보다는
자유 민주주의 국가에서 왜 자꾸 이런 선거가 일어나는가??...라는 쪽에 초점을 맞춰 보는 것이 더 좋을 듯 합니다.
포플리스트들이 득세 하고 한껏 지 멋대로 개판치고 물러간후 잠시 잠잠하다 다시 등장하는 행태는 선진 국가던 후진 국가던
구분되지 않습니다..
한국의 성렬이라 하여 내용을 들여다 보면 다를것도 없고 미처 날튀는 점에서 같습니다.
민주주의 위기란 ...이런 기이한 선서가 반복된다는 점에서가 아니고
이런 기이한 선거가 반복되게 하는 현재의 녹녹치 못한 상황입니다..
민주주의는 부르좌아 자본주의의 다른 이름일 뿐이고...그 브르조아 자본주의가 ..한계점에 봉착 한 것이지요..
더 이상 현실을 개선 하지도 못하고...대안도 꿈 꿔 볼 수 없는 그야 말로 막판까지 밀린 것이라고 보면 됩니다.
민주주의가 악질적인 점은 ....이런 위기에서도 그들은 다른 방법을 생각조차 할 수 없게 빠가들을 만들어놧다는 것이지요.
민주주의의 효익처럼 보엿던 것들이 죄다 민주주의의 독으로 변해 잇는 것이고
막스는 이런 갈등구조를 기본와 상위 체체의 갈등으로 설명 햇습니다..
마약은 끊어야 합니다..
그런데 마약 중독자들은 마약 사용을 줄이는 방식으로 살아가려 하지요..
마약을 끊엇을때 덜덜 떨리는 손이나,,어지럽고 불안한 정신 따위를 견디지 못 하는 것이지요.
손 안 떨리고, 어지럽고 불안하지 않는 정도라면.....계속 처 먹고 견디는 것이 낳다...라고 생각 하는 것이니
지금의 민주주의 가 딱 그 꼴입니다.
알레 바데우는 말 햇습니다..
-모든 시대는 그 시대의 파시즘을 갖고 잇다
-21세기 파시즘은 바로 민주주의다....................
우리는 너무 지독하게 민주주의라는 마약에 쩌러 잇습니다..
Who is Javier Milei, Argentina’s ‘Mini-Trump’?
A right-wing populist often compared to Donald Trump, Milei is described as more of a rock star than a politician
Javier Milei waves during his victory speech after winning the presidential runoff election in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 19, 2023 © AP / Natacha Pisarenko
Libertarian economist Javier Milei has defeated Economy Minister Sergio Massa to become president-elect of Argentina. Milei’s economic proposals are radical, but the populist leader’s personal life – from his passion for “tantric sex” to his cloned “four-legged children” – has drawn equal controversy.
An outsiderMilei is a newcomer to politics, forming the Liberty Advances coalition in 2021 and winning election to Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies that same year. His 2021 campaign offered a preview of what would follow in this year’s presidential campaign, with Milei denouncing his leftist rivals as “useless parasites who have never worked,” and vowing to “kick these criminals out.”
Before entering the political arena, Milei was a prominent economist and author, and a regular guest on television debates. Milei was a combative debater, and often unleashed foul-mouthed tirades against his opponents, infamously referring to Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta as a “disgusting piece of s**t,” and the governor of Buenos Aires province as a “diabolical dwarf.
A clear victoryMilei defeated Massa by almost 56% to 44% of the vote in a runoff election on Sunday, despite pre-election opinion polling showing him with a razor-thin lead over the economy minister, and Massa winning 36% of the vote to Milei’s 30% in the first round.
Leftists have dominated Argentinian politics for more than half a century, with Peronist candidates – like Massa – winning 10 out of 13 elections they have been allowed to participate in since 1946. Since the end of Argentina’s military dictatorship in 1983, Peronists have held power for a total of 28 years.
Over the last decade, inflation has soared to nearly 150%, the number of Argentinians living in poverty has risen to 40%, and the peso has fallen to a record low against the US dollar. With Massa inextricably linked to this decline, analysts have said that many normally left-wing voters sided with Milei, seeing him as a shock therapist capable of revitalizing the flagging economy.
Radical reformsMilei describes himself as an “anarcho-capitalist,” championing the free market and viewing government intervention in the economy as encroaching on personal freedom. Throughout his campaign, Milei regularly brandished a chainsaw, a dramatic illustration of his promises to slash social spending, shut down the country’s central bank, and reduce the number of government ministries by more than half.
Milei has also vowed to lift capital controls, end government protection of national industries, and eventually abandon the peso in favor of the US dollar.
A wild personalityFamed for his distinctive shaggy mop of gray hair and his tendency to burst into song during political rallies, Milei has been painted in the media as more of a “rock star” than a conventional politician. Milei has done little to dispel this image, boasting of his past as a “tantric sex instructor” and his involvement in several “threesomes” during a talk show appearance in 2020.
Milei has never been married, and lives with five English Mastiffs, which he had cloned from a now-deceased dog named Conan, after Conan the Barbarian. Milei has described the 200-pound dogs as his “four-legged children,” and according to his unofficial biographer, Juan Luis Gonzalez, uses a psychic to consult Conan for political advice.
Pressed on this by a reporter, Milei said that “what I do with my spiritual life and in my house is my business. If Conan advises me on politics, it means that he is the best consultant of humanity.”
Milei also moonlights as a superhero, appearing at multiple comic con events in Argentina dressed as ‘General AnCap’, a character of his own creation whose purpose on Earth, according to Milei, is to “kick Keynesians and collectivists in the ass.”
Friends and enemiesMilei’s outsider status, populist platform, and liberal use of insults have seen him compared to former US President Donald Trump. Like Trump, Milei has reveled in upsetting the powerful, saving his most scornful rhetoric for those he perceives as “communists.”
He has referred to Pope Francis on various occasions as a “Jesuit who promotes communism,” and a “communist turd,” referred to climate change as a “neo-Marxist lie,” and threatened to cut off diplomatic relations with “communist” China and Brazil. Milei has also expressed support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, and stated on the campaign trail that he is opposed to Argentina joining the BRICS group.
Furthermore, amid Israel’s ongoing invasion of Gaza, Milei told the Times of Israel on Sunday that he has “emphatically expressed” support for the Israeli military, and would move Argentina’s embassy in the Jewish state from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
In a continent dominated by leftist leaders, Milei’s election was met with a mixed response. In a post-election message on social media, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva refused to mention Milei by name, writing that “democracy is the voice of the people and must always be respected.” Colombian President Gustavo Petro described Milei’s victory as “sad for Latin America.”
Trump, on the other hand, declared that he was “very proud” of Milei, and that the president-elect “will truly make Argentina Great Again.” In a similar post on social media, Brazil’s former right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, declared that “hope is shining again in South America.”
X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk also welcomed Milei's victory, declaring on his platform that “prosperity is ahead for Argentina.”
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Pinochet wannabe? Argentina’s president-elect is not the libertarian he claims to be
Javier Milei says he is a freedom-loving anarcho-capitalist, but scratch him and a fascist bleeds through
By Bradley Blankenship, an American journalist, columnist and political commentator
Newly elected President of Argentina Javier Milei, November 19, 2023, Buenos Aires, Argentina © Luis ROBAYO / AFP
The far-right Argentine economist and so-called “libertarian” Javier Milei was elected president on Sunday night, promising to tackle inflation and take a sledgehammer to the state in the midst of an economic crisis. But his proposed policies will most likely not be a panacea for Argentina’s woes and, more likely, will only harm the country more.
Before detailing Milei’s particular positions, it needs to be noted upfront that Buenos Aires’ economic crisis is directly attributed to former right-wing President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), who took out a massive International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan in hopes of boosting his political cred before a tough reelection that he eventually lost. It was this massive and unpayable debt that carried on into the administration of current outgoing President Alberto Fernandez, contributing to hyperinflation. The history of Argentine economics is long and complicated (the economy is in crisis about every six years), but this latest one is directly attributed to the same sort of austerity and Western bootlicking that’s on the table today.
That’s where Javier Milei comes in. He wants to lean into these very same policies and institutions that mangled the Argentine economy, namely the IMF and the West, predominantly the United States, while also giving up his nation’s sovereignty by adopting the US dollar. He wants to cut off ties with major countries like China purely on ideological grounds, never mind how ridiculously this would destroy Argentina’s supply chains and place in international trade. He has also promised to abandon the BRICS format, opting instead to do business with the “civilized” world – North America, Europe, and their partners, including Israel.
It’s clear that this is not only foolhardy, given the long-term trajectory of the eastward drift of economic, political, and diplomatic power, but an outright betrayal against the Argentine people. Abandoning its sovereign currency – just like Ecuador and El Salvador, both countries themselves undergoing regular cycles of turmoil, did – would guarantee that Buenos Aires’ monetary policy is written in Washington, DC. Without fiscal exchange and labor market integration, this effectively would make Argentina a US colony.
On top of this, Milei wants to abolish virtually every governmental agency – fulfilling a libertarian wet dream perhaps communicated to him by his most trusted adviser, his deceased dog. (No, really, he takes advice from his dead dog). The social costs, which can also be calculated economically, of slashing education, health, transportation, and technology, would not only be immense, but would almost certainly make Buenos Aires an economic non-factor within a generation and, at best, a perennial victim of brain drain.
Then again, it’s also important to note that he is not a pure anarcho-capitalist/market libertarian as he apparently professes. If you look at his policy proposals, here are some highlights: “Militarization of the institutions during the transition period,” building a for-profit public-private prison system, relaxing regulations on imprisoning people, implementing forced labor for prisoners (such that they cannot be released without being economically productive), reducing the age of imputability of minors (the age at which someone is considered morally competent by law, thus able to be criminally sentenced), and creating a national surveillance network complete with cameras and facial recognition.
Milei’s advocates believe that he has now ridden into his mandate on an anti-crime, pro-market reform wave on the back of rising crime and an out-of-control left that doomed the economy. On the contrary, his policies will not alleviate the material conditions – poverty and destitution – that are driving crime, and his hard-on-crime policies, which are totally out of step with what libertarians claim to believe, is, at best, a band-aid on a gaping wound. At worst, it’s clear that he is following the same route as other pro-capital tough men like Chile’s former dictator, Augusto Pinochet.
That is to say, while many of the original neoliberals lauded Pinochet as their man, and, indeed, Pinochet implemented the first prototypical neoliberal constitution in history in Chile, this was a farce. In fact, the state began to intervene more in the economy from 1975 to 1982, a period described as a “pure Monetarist experiment” that also overlapped with Pinochet’s dictatorship, than the former socialist government of Salvador Allende. This supposed laissez-faire period was, in fact, categorized with heavy state control of the economy and state repression designed to cull opposition to these unpopular policies, which netted little economic growth and culminated in a banking crisis.
While Milei claims to be a libertarian and a free-market capitalist, he has already shown himself to have an authoritarian streak. Moreover, his predecessor on the right, Macri, also had to contend with political realities – e.g. the fact that austerity is extraordinarily unpopular – prompting his reforms to grind to a halt. Milei will necessarily need to employ state repression – particularly against those on the left, whom he openly dehumanizes – to ram these policies through if he intends to do even half of what he has stated publicly. It would be impossible for Argentina to be both a democracy and a degenerate right-wing semi-feudal state at the same time.