through europe - social body http://th-rough.eu/taxonomy/term/271/0 en El derecho a la insolvencia http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-esp/el-derecho-la-insolvencia <span class='print-link'></span><div class="rtejustify"> <strong>Austeridad en Europa</strong> <p> Los fan&aacute;ticos del fundamentalismo econ&oacute;mico dicen que &ldquo;el trabajador alem&aacute;n no quiere pagar las facturas del pescador griego&rdquo; y, mientras tanto, enfrentan a los trabajadores entre s&iacute;, llevando a Europa al borde de la guerra civil.</p> <p> La&nbsp;entidad que es &quot;Europa&quot; fue concebida a ra&iacute;z de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, como un proyecto para superar el nacionalismo moderno y crear una uni&oacute;n no identitaria basada en los principios del humanismo, la ilustraci&oacute;n y la justicia social. &iquest;Qu&eacute; queda de este proyecto original, despu&eacute;s del reciente colapso financiero que ha asaltado la econom&iacute;a estadounidense y ha puesto en peligro a la zona euro? Desde el comienzo de la Uni&oacute;n Europea, el perfil constitucional de la entidad europea ha sido d&eacute;bilmente definido, de manera que el objetivo econ&oacute;mico de prosperidad y las limitaciones del monetarismo financiero han tomado el lugar de una constituci&oacute;n. En la d&eacute;cada de 1990, el Tratado de Maastricht marc&oacute; un punto de inflexi&oacute;n en este proceso. Sancion&oacute; la constitucionalizaci&oacute;n de la regla monetarista y sus implicaciones econ&oacute;micas: una disminuci&oacute;n del gasto social, reducci&oacute;n de los costes laborales y un aumento de la competencia y la productividad. Los efectos de una aplicaci&oacute;n intolerante de las reglas de Maastricht se hicieron evidentes en 2010: aplastando a Grecia e Irlanda y poniendo en peligro otros pa&iacute;ses, la crisis financiera mostr&oacute; las contradicciones entre los deseos de crecimiento econ&oacute;mico y estabilidad social, y la rigidez monetarista. En esta situaci&oacute;n, las reglas de Maastricht han demostrado ser peligrosas, y la concepci&oacute;n global de la UE, basado en el protagonismo de la competencia econ&oacute;mica, ha revelado su fragilidad.</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> </div><p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-esp/el-derecho-la-insolvencia" target="_blank">read more</a></p> bifo-esp crisis debt Europe european movement fascism finance insolvency social body Spanish Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:27:50 +0000 Franco Berardi Bifo 264 at http://th-rough.eu The Right to Insolvency and the Disentanglement of the General Intellect's Potency http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-eng/right-insolvency-and-disentanglement-general-intellects-potency <span class='print-link'></span><div class="rtejustify"> <span _fck_bookmark="1" id="cke_bm_90S" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span><strong>Austerity in Europe</strong></div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div id="body"> <div class="rtejustify"> &quot;The German worker does not want to pay the Greek fisherman&#39;s bills,&quot; the fanatics of economic fundamentalism are saying, while pitting workers against workers and leading Europe to the brink of civil war.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> The entity that is &quot;Europe&quot; was conceived in the aftermath of the Second World War as a project to overcome modern nationalism and create a non-identitarian union based on principles of humanism, enlightenment, and social justice. What is left of this original project, after the recent financial collapse that has stormed the American economy and jeopardized the Eurozone? Since the beginning of the European Union, the constitutional profile of the European entity has been weakly defined, such that economic goals of prosperity and monetarist financial constraints have taken the place of a constitution. In the 1990s, the Maastricht Treaty marked a turning point in this process. It sanctioned the constitutionalization of monetarist rule and its economic implications: a decrease in social spending, cuts in labor costs and an increase in competition and productivity. The effects of a narrow application of the Maastricht rules became evident in 2010: overwhelming Greece and Ireland and endangering other countries, the financial crisis exposed the contradictions between the desires for economic growth, social stability, and monetarist rigidity. In this situation, the Maastricht rules have been shown to be dangerous, and the overall conception of the EU, based on the centrality of economic competition, has revealed its frailty.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div> </div></div><p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-eng/right-insolvency-and-disentanglement-general-intellects-potency" target="_blank">read more</a></p> bifo-eng crisis debt Europe european movement fascism finance insolvency social body English Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:55:39 +0000 Franco Berardi Bifo 239 at http://th-rough.eu