A POSTCAPITALIST PARADIGM: THE COMMON GOOD OF ...

President, reopened the dialogue, recognized the justice of the proposals
and decided, together with the Legislative power, that no highway
would pass through their territory. In doing so, he resumed his commitment
to govern by obeying, as practiced by the peoples of Good Living,
and the people, or rather, the peoples, are acknowledged as the sovereign
power. 132
In other words, the Good Living proposal continues on its way of contagion
of the real politics, in which strong pressures persist in favour of
development focused on capitalist economy. The indigenous peoples’
opposition to this type of development gives continuity to their secular
struggle against the capitalist mode of existence, criticized for being a
threat to the life of the Earth, of its sons and daughters and of all living
beings. It is also a persistent assertion that Good Living is a fundamental
path to give back to human beings a good relationship with the others,
with all living beings and with the Mother Earth. Then, this is all about a
political dispute with new possibilities of power redefine all spheres of
life and, specifically, that of producing what is needed to live, in a coherent
manner with the new foundations. To say it explicitly, centering production
and exchange on practical use and relativizing exchange value.
There are powerful enemies and deep fragilities in that process. The educated
sectors, in order to defend privileges based on the constitutional
legality of an individual´ s unlimited power, do not accept to renounce to
their ownership of lands and of companies that generate income and
profits, and they struggle so that legality will again defend their practice
of capitalist progress, in which nature is nothing more than a deposit of
raw materials having no value at all, except when they are used by the
industry which turns them into goods. To do this, they have the support
of companies, States and multilateral institutions committed in the defense
of the supremacy of modern capitalist civilization.
132 Cf. Viva o novo soberano, article written by Ivo Poletto, in www.ivopoletto.
blogspot.com
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