Wednesday, December 10, 2014

"capitalism is in no position to renounce the mafia..."


In Mexica and much of the developing world “… capitalism is in no position to renounce the mafia, because it is not the mafia that has transformed itself into a modern capitalist enterprise — it is capitalism that has transformed itself into a mafia. The rules of drug trafficking that Anabel Hernández describes are also the rules of capitalism. Anabel describes a world in which political economy has become criminal economy. 
Indeed, the international press portrays the Mexican drug trade as some inconvenient blemish on capitalist globalization in North America when in fact it is not only a stepchild of neo-liberalism and NAFTA but indeed is crucial to global capitalism in the region. The brutal kidnapping and probable murder in the most heinous of circumstances of the 43 normalistas from Ayotzinapa last September 26 has revealed to the world the ugly, neo-fascist face of global capitalism and neo-liberalism in Mexico and the rapid Colombianization of the country."


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