Super-capitalism is a tyrannosaur in uncontrolled liberty. Its cage was thrown open definitively with the collapse of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989. From that time it has no limits. It has become bulimic. It devours what remains of the social democracies without let up. It’s growing. It’s growing year by year. The World Trade Organization (WTO) was born in 1995, seven years later. 97% of the nations of the world belong to it. It has the aim of abolishing every tariff barrier to international trade for everything: commercial goods, services, intellectual property. Production has been delocalised anywhere in the world where the cost of labour is lower because there’s a lack of checks on safety, trades union rights, protection of the environment. And often the same minimum rights with the recruitment of armies of child slaves under the banner of profit.
The multinationals have cashed in the gains of super-capitalism. They have protected their T.rex through the media that have praised it and that are praising its virtues and have demonised the “ anti-globalisation” campaigners. The market and democracy have fused together, as though man himself is becoming an out-of-date product. The conquests of generations of people to get a social State (what else can a State be if it’s not “social”?) have been cancelled out. And the ones that still remain are being constantly transformed into dis-services for the glory of T.rex as has happened with public water: “The aqueducts are not functioning? We’ll give them to the private sector!” Less State, more Market.
Is it possible to control a starving T.rex? Its stomach is the planet. Derivatives, futures, swaps have been able to infect world banks for almost twenty years to the indifference of the supervisory bodies of the States and of the international organisations. A new 1929 that has started but has not yet finished. The States have become markets, fabricators of optical illusions, specialists in debt. Dozens of States have already gone bust, others will follow. For the moment, to keep T.rex calm, there’s the creation of new debt to add on to the debt. A contradiction in terms.
Italy in its small way does not draw back from the banquet. The images of Gianni Agnelli and Luciano Lama seem like photomontages. Marchionne and Rinaldini are two parallel lines. They can never meet. Marchionne is blackmailing the government, and he can do that, legitimately, with T.rex at his side to protect him. Serbia and the delocalisation at 400 euro a month for each worker are waiting for him. Super-capitalism is an excess. It will die by itself and it will be replaced by another excess that is equal and opposite. Obviously, unless we die first.