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The privatization of the world - Interview with Jean Ziegler

from the book "The privatization of the world " Jean Ziegler
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What is the strength of a state and more specifically of a democratic state?

First idea it embodies.

In a stratified society in which we deal with the interests of antinomic opposing social classes, democratic state, through multiple mechanisms (redistributive taxation, social security etc..) Cotinuamente try to soften and make it more livable interdependence asymmetric between individuals. The citizens of the state and adhere to its rules, its decision-making procedures, to the extent that they derive a practical benefit. A state that gives its citizens a sense of security by ensuring a minimum level of income and social stability and the foreseeable future, and does not warrant a public order in accordance with their moral convictions, is a state prisoner.

In many states, public transport, posts and telecommunications have been privatized. A second wave of privatization is preparing against schools, universities, hospitals, prisons and soon police. A state which voluntarily dismantled its most essential public services and transfers to the private sector respond to the tasks of collective interest, thus subjecting the law of profit maximization, is a "failed state".

to the citizens of its value is close to zero. An economy that generates (and celebrating) the individual competition with a vengeance, job insecurity, the weakness of articles of association, the wages of merit, is an economy generating anxieties. A city left without protection faces major social risks losing its status as a citizen, a man who constantly afraid of losing his job, his salary and his rights is not a free man. The privatization of the state destroys human freedom and destroys citizenship.

This is because the new strategies of accumulation and exploitation of predators causing terrible damage in the fabric of national economies. states, even the most powerful, they are obliged to cede their territory, through fiscal policies and fiscal, to the dictates of the transnational industrial and financial companies. If they did would be immediately sanctioned by the end of international investment and a massive flight of capital. As a spring river in flood, the formidable vitality of finance capital over all barriers, sweeps away all the powers of the state and destroys the ordered landscapes. Now governments, even the richest and most powerful states, they have no other choice but to contribute to "global domestic policy" can not help but translate into the local language, through a set of institutional decisions, the diktat of the Lords the world. Above the governments, parliaments, judges, journalists, trade unions, intellectuals, churches, armies, scientists reign as the financial markets. So then the public institutions are emptied of their blood and the republic suffers from anemia.
Jean Ziegler