A POSTCAPITALIST PARADIGM: THE COMMON GOOD OF ...

come irreversible. Europe, which was thought to be united and strengthened,
is crumbling in the eyes of the world because the group of most
vulnerable economies can not incorporate the readjustments imposed
by regional leaders, and the latter are not willing to assimilate that the
solution formulas should take a different route in order to be effective,
and that the cost of effectiveness must be defrayed by their econo -
mies – those of the wealthy in the region.
But we must not forget that here we are looking towards the Common
Good, and it turns out that in Europe the discourse is now expressed by
the real-concrete (what is truly concrete) within some countries, while
in other States, as European as the former, by something different.
If we want to differentiate the idea of a global crisis clearly – and it will
be increasingly necessary to reveal its global architecture, no matter how
hidden it may seem –, we are compelled to think about, and find, global
solutions and not only local ones, at the risk of not becoming aware of
the global nature of the Common Good in that search. We cannot overlook
the multifaceted character that distinguishes the present systemic
crisis form preceding ones, given by the relation of its economic-financial
aspect with the crises caused by the exhaustion (of energy resources,
of drinkable water) of food (which is not lacking but is mainly a distribution
problem), of housing (that has strongly affected the middle classes),
of accumulation of non-recyclable waste materials, of population (of demographic
growth, employment, migratory), of environmental erosion
(loss of biodiversity, deforestation and climatic change). I am trying to
classify in the most encompassing and structural way those aspects
that become critical in environmental conditions, so as to underline that,
what is new qualitatively is given by the multifaceted character that links
conditions causally and at the same time demands looking for comprehensive
answers.
The solution given to the crisis of the year 2008 by way of gigantic financial
injections, without paying attention to the unemployment and
eviction problems associated to it, constitutes palpable proof of the in-
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