Monday, March 21, 2011

Uterus Anterior Myometrium




By Edgardo Mocca
relatively short time ago the word hegemony was almost exclusively used among us disqualifying purposes. Deliberately or not, its use is referred to the liberal-conservative Italian thinker Giovanni Sartori , who, in his classification of party systems, the concept reserved "dominant party" those political regimes in which a political force was secured, through fraud, violence or monopolistic control of political resources, the exercise of government. could be other parties, as in Mexico in the PRI or Hungary before the fall of the Wall, but merely form the backdrop that legitimized a pluralistic regime.

Thus, the government of Nestor Kirchner was dismissed as "hegemonic" by a wide constellation of opposition politicians and commentators also

opposition. Nobody went so far on that path as the deputy Carrio, who came to assimilate the Romanian Ceaucescu regime and Hitler's National Socialism, but there were few who squeezed the concept sartoriano In the last period, ranging from agriculture to the present day conflict ,
reappeared another meaning of hegemony
: which is associated with the name of Antonio Gramsci conceived as and political direction -cultural society by a sector of it-the working class, in thinking of the famous Italian political philosopher. was President Cristina Kirchner to resurrect the issue when he said, in the critical autumn of 2009, which
what we were living was a
"culture war" . In that battle, privileged sectors using all their influence to discredit and disavow a course marked by the central idea of \u200b\u200bredistribution of wealth in the country . Interestingly, in the midst of this cultural battle more than one of the "fighters" who supported the Government developed a discourse that could well be characterized as "pregramsciano" in the sense think the political struggle as an expression of forces whose position already predetermined by their sectoral interests. Thus, "middle class"
was placed in a sector where fatally condemned to neglect social popular forces and face them.
Many of the mistakes that led to the defeat of the official project, the society first and then in Congress, f hey were tributaries of that approach. hegemony Gramsci conceived as the ability to achieve and sustain the unity of a social bloc. And that capacity does not rotate around the pure domain of potential or actual exercise of violence but a force of cultural and moral , a "faith" said the thinker Sardinian. It is very forced the connection between this formulation and the insistence of the President on the existence of a struggle between "stories" Argentina opposites in reality. opening Presidential Address of the ordinary sessions of Congress is an eloquent example of that strategy: facts and figures that there were exposed not the cadence of a "balance of governance"; presented as an illustration of the results of a political project. All an updating of the effect of political programs supporters to which they hurriedly extended a shutdown from the perspective of the "postpolitical" that puts the government in place for the administration of the given, no creativity whatsoever. Is he not the President's appeal not to allow the forces of disunity friendly gesture toward the current political "hegemony" in the Gramscian sense? Unity, Cristina Kirchner said and repeated, not an end in itself, is a prerequisite for survival and deepening of the ongoing project. To paraphrase in terms of Gramsci, is the unity of the social block what is at stake. And the idea social block differs from the question economistic "class" that is not joined by so-called "objective interests" that pre-existing political practice, but is the same practice which builds and explicit. Always Gramscian vocabulary,
this block has an internal social interests "corporately" contradictory.
words, if you were to look exclusively the interests of particular social sector, the social unity of the bloc would not be a desirable goal. episodes in recent days drastically materialize these abstractions. Hugo Moyano has been a dramatic gesture of power; society faced with the specter of a chaotic day, without trucks, buses, subways, trains or boats. The mercy argument was to defend the labor movement of political and journalistic attacks that receives daily. As they say in chess, "the threat is stronger than the execution." 's announcement allowed the CGT leader placed at the center of the scene, forcing the government to talk and get the decibels about a warrant for the Swiss Justice will not go down in history for the accuracy of their bases and much less editorial quality. As icing on the cake and leave no doubt that the nature of the operation, Moyano said that workers do not want to be constrained by sectoral demands: they want power.

It is worth insisting that the deteriorating image of unionism and the strange credibility of any accusation that politics and ethics involved there is nothing natural or innocent. The history of the labor movement in its early Peronist has glories and miseries. passed by the resistance against the false democracy of the proscriptions and the fight against dictatorship. And the shame of complicity of some in state terrorism and participation in the profits of the sale of public property implemented by the Menem

. The impression, however, are not the lameness union multimedia object of scorn. Otherwise not explain the "prudence" which dealt with the arrest of Momo qualifying Venegas and anger, for example, the publisher of The Nation yesterday, Saturday, dedicated to the leading figure of the trucker. not appear, then, that the issue is ethical, but is essentially political. It is political because points to a key component of the coalition that led Argentina from 2003: the alliance between the government and the labor movement. Who put the outcry by the assumption that non-Republican alliance, not equally outraged when, Menem and De la Rua, the key partners of state were the great groups of concentrated economic power. The alliance between State and CGT is not a simple election strategy. By contrast is grounded in a process of change in the world of work not recorded in the country for many decades. the alliance is allowed to reinstate employs five million people, to recover the collective bargaining agreement and the minimum wage and mobile, introducing the peer teaching significantly increase salaries and pensions and create a universal child allowance,
among many other innovations of the period. All this
at a time when many thought they had gone social actors and the policy was a matter of isolated individuals unified only on the condition of hearing the media. The fact is that in these hours we have experienced the most significant threat to the unity of the coalition that now governs the country. And the episode touches the nerve more critical for the possibility of continuity of its political project, for your own internal contradictions. If someone in the government believes it can rule on the direction taken without the accompaniment of a substantial portion of the labor movement, ending contributing to the defeat. And if one union leader believes that workers will come to power based on breaking the current political and social coalition of government, will become the key to the success of media-political operations that claims to oppose. hegemony That is, to hold in unity to diversity and contradiction.

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