30
YEARS OF REALIDAD ECONOMICA: OBJECTIVES WHICH
HAVE NOT GROWN OLD
There are streams of ideas
in the economic field being expressed through
the media and organized in entrepreneurial groups
or in centers of studio.
Curiosity for revealing the economic phenomena
is no longer a concern for specialists but a
question of a wider strata: work sectors affected
by the reduction of real income, traders' anxiety
because of the internal market deterioration,
industrials worried for denationalizations,
bankruptcy or the lack of tariff protections,
agrarian producers depressed by the unstable,
inequitable prices and the failure of their
efforts forced by monopolies. Everyone of them
have an uneasy view of the economic reality.
We said so thirty years ago,
in the first number of Economic Reality. And
as an editorial commitment we added: We will
write about positive changes towards national
interest.
We want the argentine people
meadow as the beneficiary of an agrarian reform
which rises productivity, diversifies farming,
completes the industrial development and unties
the relationship of the large entailed state
with native and foreign monopolies.
We agree with those who want
a modern state, dynamic, progressive, to protect
national sovereignty and preserve the country's
basic resources in order to put them at the
service of a program which overcomes underdevelopment
and external dependency.
We'll be giving suggestions
and studies for Argentine people to keep track
of an independent foreign trade in order to
protect the rightful interests of the producers
abroad constituting links of mutual benefit
reciprocity with all the countries in the world.
Our conceptual line is oriented towards an equitable
distribution of the national rent embodying
majorities into social consume satisfying both
material and spiritual societies. After three
decades we look back realizing nothing good
has happened in an enduring manner.
The country could not settle positively its
programmatic projections. Marginality has increased.
Many of those believing difficulties were only
for the poor find themselves in losing positions
and sharing distress with the poorest. We also
notice traders losing capital without even noticing
at because in the past they paid big amounts
trusting trade funds and turning to inflation
after that, ending in huge list of empty businesses.
Industrials thinking as well as the big economic
groups, hoping for a good behavior certificate
from monopolies in order to assure survival,
have been lately disappointed . NONE OF WHAT
WE THOUGHT HAS HAPPENED The illusion of a prosperous
commerce which allowed a good living for its
owner and access to a university title for his
descendants has been substituted for an unprecedented
mode in which they can subsist in shopping centers
paying franchises to foreign groups or, in the
worst case, they have been replaced for self
employed workers available 24 hours a day waiting
inside maxi or mini-kiosks the providential
entrance of a very disputed client.
All national manufacturers
(those who believed the illusions of the competence
and market think-tanks and those who understood
accurately where they were standing but didnAt
have any protection for their production and
the sources of employment from the state and
the enterprising unions), we repeat, all of
them are in the risk of extinction because of
the economic and social dumping accomplished
by the big transnational monopolies from the
so called Tigers factories, in a globalized
and concentrated economy which leaves no space
for what remains of the national industry and
the thinner internal market.
The political class is to blame
partly for this deep crisis because it has not
been capable of providing a coherent social
and economic project. Worse than that, it convoked
and backed military dictatorships to impose
severe and unpopular programs which brought
inequality to many and benefited a few. What
has happened in the midst of society with the
forgotten and dissimulated utopias? Why donAt
we claim ideals again? Are we all responsible
for the Wall and for its downfall or is it that
by the Wall's symbol humanity exhausted its
history and progression? Paraphrasing Menem's
oblivion in "the 45", nowadays talking
about imperialism, of state depletion (which
is not the same than the state of corruption
that reduced state's enterprises), of landless
peasants, of unemployed professionals without
future, or saying loudly : "buy Argentinian"
is an anachronism. IS IT REALLY ? Among many
questions there is one that we share with a
lot of people: how to rescue a national consciousness
in order to stop this backwardness process disguised
as modernism keeping it from being legitimated
in the ballot-boxes because of the lack of unity
of those who think in a good manner but didn't
act in the same way. A big amount of good thinkers'
economists, sociologists and politicians (as
called by our remembered first president Arturo
Sampay) who wrote the pages of Economic Reality
should be reunited in order to rebuild a country
for those who search social justice goals in
order to achieve capacity, resources and creativity.
Social inequity must be confronted towards the
overcoming of the scientific and technician's
frustration, institutionalized illegality, lack
of national industry with no credit for rotation
capital readjustment and no solvent internal
market to set its production, exhaustion of
the regional economies and the bankruptcy of
the provincial banks, systematic destruction
of federalism and the resignation of social
sovereignty in all orders.
The challenge to face in this
context is the achieving of objectives clearly
not grown old by the popular camp so the country
sets a democratic and progressive option. Today,
next to the Realidad Econ?mica's 30 anniversary
we ratify our opinions of 30 years back and
we continue, as expressed in number 168, "trusting
the persistence of action" (GelmanAs poem).
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