Aug 25
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Capitalism Corporate Social Responsibility CSR Green Capitalism territorial defense trade unions “culture of refusal”
Institutional Control of Social Struggles – Miguel Amoros
“For real protest, the institutionalized opposition is the problem, the enemy and the main threat.”“…any struggle that does not challenge the model of capitalist society is condemned to reinforce it.”
Transcript of a lecture delivered at a presentation-debate held at the pirate university of Viladecans, December 9, 2009.
Translated in August 2013 from the Spanish original available online at: http://charlaspoliticarabanchel.blogspot.com/2013/01/el-control-insitucional-de-las-luchas.html
Miguel Amorós argues that the traditional mechanisms of social control and integration (parties and trade unions) have been undermined by capitalist development itself; that “the real crisis is the one that derives from the radical incompatibility of capitalism with life on Earth”, the crisis of the “external limits” of capitalism; that the “social question” thus assumes the form of the “defense of territory”, of “a different way of life”, and “the rural world” against the depredations of “sustainable development”; and that, “for real protest, the institutionalized opposition is the problem, the enemy and the main threat”. →