TORCH OF THE CENTURY.
CONTENTS. Number 5. August, 2010.
Introduction.
Karl Kraus. Political and policy
Nausea information today.
Carmen, the nietísima, and historical memory
The whore, journalist and advertising. Mario Vargas Llosa
or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
of economy.
Spain 2010.
Albert Einstein. The crisis of 29
José Luis Sampedro. The humanist and the economy.
Carlos Taibo. 169 deputies. Mikel
Ametzola. English money in Switzerland.
Lorenzo Martínez Aguilar. Money markets and unethical merchants.
Klausbarómetro.
José Saramago. Franz Kafka. Juan Goytisolo. Address
WMUrban against intellectuals.
3. Commitment.
Collaborations. Rafael
Cózar. The last dinosaurs to extinction.
Jesus Munarriz. A Blas de Otero in 2010. Manuel Garcia came
. Royalists life.
Forthcoming issues.
Karl Kraus. Political and policy
Nausea information today.
Carmen, the nietísima, and historical memory
The whore, journalist and advertising. Mario Vargas Llosa
or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
of economy.
Spain 2010.
Albert Einstein. The crisis of 29
José Luis Sampedro. The humanist and the economy.
Carlos Taibo. 169 deputies. Mikel
Ametzola. English money in Switzerland.
Lorenzo Martínez Aguilar. Money markets and unethical merchants.
Klausbarómetro.
José Saramago. Franz Kafka. Juan Goytisolo. Address
WMUrban against intellectuals.
3. Commitment.
Collaborations. Rafael
Cózar. The last dinosaurs to extinction.
Jesus Munarriz. A Blas de Otero in 2010. Manuel Garcia came
. Royalists life.
Forthcoming issues.
INTRODUCTION
KARL KRAUS. Political and policy.
KARL KRAUS. Political and policy.
The secret political (shaker) is impersonating someone as stupid as his audience to believe to be as smart as him. ___________________________________________
parliamentarism is the confinement of political prostitution. ___________________________________________
policy has all the tension of a detective novel. Diplomatic pregnancies offer the spectacle of some states wanted a requisition through international criminal gang. ____________________________________________
Democracy means to be a slave to anyone.
NAUSEA report of the current
CARMEN FRANCO, LA NIETÍSIMA and historical memory.
When Franco said, and during her mummy, leaving him tied up all right, he meant not only economic and political succession, also the situation of their own: family, relatives, collaborators. But fear also inoculated a large part of the English people, the drug that they had been anesthetized. The nietísimos well know. Not content with the economic and artistic heritage bequeathed to them. Need more money. One walks investigated for justice. The other, Carmencita, also seeks success, sheepish fervor. Televisions lend it. Are journalists who work in television? And the magazines and newspapers. Today. The nietísima is multipurpose. The same mess-cares his years-assembling performances of "dance" or is participating in the corrupting trappings of language called "social". The people, dumb, blind, deaf, without memory, attending to this dreadful spectacle unmoved. And those who speak it do their job of laborers of shamelessness. The losers are always the losers. And the winners remains the responsibility of so. With pathetic colleagues who claim to represent the Left. And she, Carmen Franco's Spain, and all descendants and friends of the toad Iscariot, daughter, grandchildren, cousins, spouses, Marquises, dukes, bankers, judges, journalists, and are finally out of the macabre list. Esperpento still alive. In order not to relax the old party.
THE HOOKER, THE JOURNALIST AND THE PERIODIC
One of the whores hostage for years in the city of Madrid, tortured every day with the obligation to serve customers recruited by the newspapers of the capital -in Spain standard practice, one thing is to collect thousands of signatures and pass laws in parliament against the suffering of bulls and other concerned people, and to have many more or less sadistic practices imposed on their bodies, has confessed that once had as a client to a journalist who had served as correspondent in several wars. Recognized for having seen him on television. When he tried to explain something about their situation, he said he had no interest in white slavery, kidnapping or death threats he received, he does not talk about it, he was there, and so paid, because his wife "do not put" wanted to fuck like he liked, so cut the royo and do everything to send him. Not know whether that great journalist was also known for his books sales. The hooker, who are women just for the pleasure to start, had been tricked, abducted and detained with other two hundred women in house-to hideouts, where they saw clients with newspapers feed them. No shortage of beatings, death threats and sometimes even one is murdered, her or their extended family. Are the new slave for slave to rub shoulders with high society, earn billions through these fucking machines. With the connivance of the newspapers, and if necessary, of some police or judges, that experts that have lawyers. But here we speak of terrorist organizations. Terrorism is screaming in the street. Sometimes it stops some of these slave. Further, reports of these women cause laughter or contempt, or removal to other sex markets. The day after the arrest papers were publishing these services, encouraging this terrorism. The mobsters spend a brief time in jail, soon bought his freedom and perhaps changing places and names keep their business. "Kidnappings, terrorism, murder? No: they will not rot in jail, representatives of the Government, opposition and church. They are part of society recognized we live
Mario Vargas Llosa. DOCTOR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE.
When Franco said, and during her mummy, leaving him tied up all right, he meant not only economic and political succession, also the situation of their own: family, relatives, collaborators. But fear also inoculated a large part of the English people, the drug that they had been anesthetized. The nietísimos well know. Not content with the economic and artistic heritage bequeathed to them. Need more money. One walks investigated for justice. The other, Carmencita, also seeks success, sheepish fervor. Televisions lend it. Are journalists who work in television? And the magazines and newspapers. Today. The nietísima is multipurpose. The same mess-cares his years-assembling performances of "dance" or is participating in the corrupting trappings of language called "social". The people, dumb, blind, deaf, without memory, attending to this dreadful spectacle unmoved. And those who speak it do their job of laborers of shamelessness. The losers are always the losers. And the winners remains the responsibility of so. With pathetic colleagues who claim to represent the Left. And she, Carmen Franco's Spain, and all descendants and friends of the toad Iscariot, daughter, grandchildren, cousins, spouses, Marquises, dukes, bankers, judges, journalists, and are finally out of the macabre list. Esperpento still alive. In order not to relax the old party. THE HOOKER, THE JOURNALIST AND THE PERIODIC
One of the whores hostage for years in the city of Madrid, tortured every day with the obligation to serve customers recruited by the newspapers of the capital -in Spain standard practice, one thing is to collect thousands of signatures and pass laws in parliament against the suffering of bulls and other concerned people, and to have many more or less sadistic practices imposed on their bodies, has confessed that once had as a client to a journalist who had served as correspondent in several wars. Recognized for having seen him on television. When he tried to explain something about their situation, he said he had no interest in white slavery, kidnapping or death threats he received, he does not talk about it, he was there, and so paid, because his wife "do not put" wanted to fuck like he liked, so cut the royo and do everything to send him. Not know whether that great journalist was also known for his books sales. The hooker, who are women just for the pleasure to start, had been tricked, abducted and detained with other two hundred women in house-to hideouts, where they saw clients with newspapers feed them. No shortage of beatings, death threats and sometimes even one is murdered, her or their extended family. Are the new slave for slave to rub shoulders with high society, earn billions through these fucking machines. With the connivance of the newspapers, and if necessary, of some police or judges, that experts that have lawyers. But here we speak of terrorist organizations. Terrorism is screaming in the street. Sometimes it stops some of these slave. Further, reports of these women cause laughter or contempt, or removal to other sex markets. The day after the arrest papers were publishing these services, encouraging this terrorism. The mobsters spend a brief time in jail, soon bought his freedom and perhaps changing places and names keep their business. "Kidnappings, terrorism, murder? No: they will not rot in jail, representatives of the Government, opposition and church. They are part of society recognized we live Mario Vargas Llosa. DOCTOR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE.
Peruvian is someone that every day your image fades good novelist to become one of the most servile intellectuals of the American Empire or notorious fascist José María Aznar, princes, corrupt characters do not hesitate to offer his miserable accommodation, well-paid, it is true. Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the many hacks that El Pais has more paranoid obsession that can be conceived in a newspaper that is not unlike other places in the far right, with respect to Latin America. In The fourth page of a recent Sunday, he who tried to become President of a country as "democratic" as Peru, getting disastrous results, wrote a disgusting article "Heroes of Our Time" which ends with these words: "My hope that, following what I call political prisoners exiled from Cuba, the European Union committed the imprudence of giving up the common position and keep it until the Castro brothers' regime to give accurate and verifiable steps of democratization. " Le terrified that no prisoners or stop someone from dying, one, one only as a protest against the regime, Vargas Llosa has that much hatred, and writes and gives lectures and participates in meetings continued fascists calling for an end to it, a visceral hatred that seems to prevent sleep. With how well you live in democracies such as Honduras, the assassination there of journalists and citizens, by hired thugs coup or regime has not, nor has in Mexico where they are shot every day dozens of people in an undeclared war. It is better to mess with Chavez or Morales against real dictatorships like Colombia that has not doubted by so-called United Self-Defense of Colombia to use ovens in which to wipe out their victims, when they are thrown into the river Cauca in the south of the Department of Antioquia, Alvaro Uribe was governor then, long time, "Democratic" President of the Nation. And this not to refer to other wars and genocides that caught him far and their friends or old Aznar Bush have so much responsibility. We would like to know why not silenced Jekyll Hyde, which destroyed his office everyday writer.
DEECONOM Í A
Spain 2010
economic crisis. Months, years now, talking about her. We talk, we talk about the economic crisis? No. Neither politicians nor the so-called experts or financial analysts. And unless reporters. Limited to comment, saying, "what others say." And they say they have to say? PSOE leaders blame the crisis situation in the international market. If banks say they are illiquid and close their loans, if unemployment increases, if the industries of construction, tourism, automobile production drops claim and have to multiply the dismissal of workers and reduce social costs, etc. There not guilty?. The popular party, and the autistic Rajoy, are more simple, monotonous. As good disciples of the great historic schools of fascism that use the same populist demagoguery employed to discuss the corruption that rules over their conspicuous representatives, reduce the crisis to one name: Zapatero. If the dog would eventually die of rabies. The day pass-Rajoy Zapatero at the Moncloa Palace will end the crisis. And the organizations that call themselves left wing just delve into their analysis, they prefer to look the other way-have become partners of all employers, and the way to see if a huelguita obtain political benefits: imagine success: one, two, four members more to live for another four years paunch. A strike against whom, with what continuity? Against the economic terrorists that exist here in Germany, in International Monetary Fund in the stock exchanges, banks, the pattern of economic neoliberalism, against the big mafias that control the markets, impose labor laws, its massive and illegal shelter profits in tax havens, manipulate information? No. Also to the easy, the scapegoat, the lackey of the rotten system in which one and another splash, the Zapatero government. What is the turnover, the PP and CiU as seemingly corrupt nationalist and capitalist reactionary Christian? Does it matter! Them to yours. And speaking of terrorism. This raises with labor reform and measures to deteriorated living standards of workers and promote to employers, banks and the corruption of a system that rules over all of Europe, the chaos articulated by Salgado. And so a reform proposed by the Government, his Government, to investigate tax fraud, she curtailed. Apparently there is only one known terrorist, who is in Euskal Herria, for which if it articulates a new penal code reform that can not prescribe penalties ever. But for the budget, most devastating effects are prevented inspection of tax crimes and can punish those who defraud and possessors of great fortunes, untouchable. The great economic terrorists heirs of Franco, the neo savage capitalism remain parents of this "homeland." The crime is considered mild, and if it detects, prescribe as soon as possible.
Let's try in this issue of The Torch and the following talk about these issues. From past crises and historical criticism to the present situation. We expect further contributions.
ALBERT EINSTEIN. The crisis of 29.
in 1934 wrote about the crisis of the 30 Albert Einstein: "This crisis has a different character being based on a completely new set of conditions, born of the rapid development of production methods. Currently only needs a fraction of manpower available in the world for total volume production of consumer goods necessary for life. This fact, in an economic system laissez faire all, has to generate unemployment. Apparent overproduction, so big that exceeds demand: those trying to take responsibility for the present crisis merely playing with words (...) I am sure that this technical process which should relieve mankind from much of the work required to their survival is the main cause of our current misfortunes (...) There should be a fully planned economy in which the community is to distribute and produce consumer goods (...) should reduced by law the number of weekly working hours in all branches of the industry to completely eliminate unemployment. Should set minimum wages at the same time, so that the purchasing power of workers is matched by the production (...) Control the volume of money in circulation and credit volume, so that prices remain stable, abolishing all monetary standard (...) It is necessary to take measures to make possible and necessary for youth to participate in the production process. In addition, the elderly should be barred from certain jobs, instead receiving a pension from working quite as good of society (...) Should be cut fluctuations in the value of money, replacing the gold standard to one based on certain types of goods selected by consumption status as proposed by Keynes long ago. José Luis Sampedro. The humanist and the economy.
José Luis Sampedro is one of the most lucid, intimate Spain. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is not among his advisers. Prefer guys like Miguel Boyer. So let's go. A Sampedro the mass can not see or hear, like so many others, so inept as reactionary "experts on economic issues, therefore can not follow their political or socio his thoughts on the market, dependence, regional development, environmental planning, productivity, multinationals or the reasons for the current global economic crisis. It is more often by the public Sampedro through his novels. Mass is a product shaped by the media, therefore no fault of their own, is blind, deaf and mute. And those who manipulate, politicians, governments, not like men like José Luis Sampedro, too lucid to give them free spaces. "Prizes, awards officers? That's for other people. The servants and lackeys of the parties God or the market. And so the pages of newspapers and audiovisual information or gatherings are filled with apologists of capitalism operator or cryptic and indecipherable message in the economic analysis performed for her. Lies. Fraud. Corruptions. They pay for it. Give us today
Torch lines XXI Century written by José Luis Sampedro and humanistic economics culled from the book. More than just numbers. From them, if there really freedom of information and opinion, we could start a deeper dialogue, so necessary and illuminating. But dialogue is banned in the media monopoly and economic terrorism. Belong the introduction written by Sampson in the work cited:
"My advice is contrary to the optimistic version of the dominant economic thinking in the more developed countries (...) I keep my opinion about the decline of the system. It is true that it provides equality before the law, completely false unfair given the global distribution of the assets of the planet from its inhabitants, inequality has not been corrected in all the decades in which there has been talk of eradicating poverty. It is also true that statements proclaiming democratic system, but the reality confronts us with oligarchic organizations that maintain their power by mastering the media, thereby manipulation of public opinion, also justified in ideologies developed by the intellectuals at your service. In terms of economic development, receives the name of sustainable unreasonable, when in fact the tripling of world population in a century, and the deterioration of the environment at this time, lead to the conclusion that the process can not be sustained for long as so far. And as for freedom just look out the same media to immediately have to wonder who the real beneficiaries of it (...) As he wrote John Kenneth Galbraith well, most of the texts of economics in the last two centuries formulations containing the desired direction by the establishment. It is understood that this great economist could not get the Nobel Prize, awarded instead to his opponent Friedman.
negative diagnosis of the global situation and the perception of decline is confirmed, a little recognition of the aberration of a state to continue to promote development and sustainable. To this are added performances in other areas bordering on barbarism, because they affect basic values \u200b\u200bconstituting the system (...) I do not doubt that the current economic ideology, flattering of dominant interests is one aspect of the decline global (...) At the time of the "economy policy "interest producing assets, considering the needs of poverty, much more than devising financial mechanisms to leverage speculative gains (...) The current plight ... not in itself to demonstrate the irrationality of the system everyday use and abuse of the great natural resources. "
Carlos Taibo. 169 Members
It reflection what has happened in recent weeks, the heat of the deployment of a draconian adjustment program, with pictures of the English Socialist Workers Party. For the argument realize what happened relevant in an enclosure, the Congress of Deputies in Madrid, keep in mind that not one of the 169 representatives who took seats socialists in this institution has seen fit to express, in public, no discussion, nor more nor less, as does the content of the aforementioned plan. We speak of these people, do not forget, a few days before and again argued that the socialist government would not tolerate in any way cuts in social rights. do not know if at this point makes some sense considering the limited and poor explanations offered to justify such a drastic change, and so pathetic attitude. So there are no loose ends rescued, even with all the two seem to enjoy greater presence. The first says no more than the plan of adjustment is an imposition of the European Union. Although the argument itself is beyond reproach, makes the wrong place, of course, our rulers and their acolytes: If, on the one hand, it shows clearly that the first-of-governors had not done their homework, the other puts demonstrated their inability to preserve, rhetoric aside, a project other than the EU advocates a visibly neoliberalized. The second of the explanations, as well known, is based on the superstition that the many serious problems that drag the English economy has nothing to do with the policies embraced by Socialist leaders: there is forwarded, we are told, to external events and responsibilities of others, such as those associated with the American crisis, the inheritance received in 2004 the popular party, or in short, speculators unpresentable practices that move everywhere.
than enough evidence to repudiate, and do so without any room for doubt, just opposing argument in the mouths of others. Just remember to respect that the English Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero at the head, not only allowed the speculation and the fattening of the housing bubble: rather, clearly articulated the two processes. Beyond that, and in regard to recent years, has taken measures terrors like those which resulted in the disappearance of estate tax, the grant of 400 euros of tax relief to all citizens benefit equally unfortunately the richest and the poorest-a rise of VAT where it is impossible to see any vocation redistributive laxísima preservation of law with respect to tax havens or, in short, the futility of extreme fraud allowing criminal practices remain a reality. So that nothing is missing, the same Government which ultimately reduced the salaries of staff and has frozen pension has not had much problem in hipermillonarias sums allocated to the rescue of struggling financial institutions.
should pay attention to a fact that stands out, however, over the other, missing the news that account for the initiation of legal cases against those it is reasonable to assume were once responsible for financial and accounting practices unedifying . Someone may well ask whether this is a result of a relaxed attitude unpresentable side judges. But it seems that the problem is this: what happens, the more outrageous is that the laws that our government decided to encourage and implement extremely permissive in regard to behavior concerned. At last, after all, that is what has come to mean much hyped deregulation that has indelibly marked the neoliberal logic: if the legal rules governing disappear, so do, as if by magic, crime. Again, let me emphasize that the above refers, in relation to our rulers, more than a mere complicity with misconduct.
To close the circle is not more to do a gloss of the singular attitude in relation to this, has taken the Partido Popular. One dimension is configured by the fact, paradoxically, that at this time refuses to support a plan of adjustment, which in facts, and somehow or other, warmly defended for a long time. To account for such behavior is not surprising that go far behind are, of course, the miseries of the political game, with the elections in the backroom. Corresponds to the profile, yet the second dimension: only the most naive seem driven to embrace the conclusion that, when the People's Party ruled, with José María Aznar, in Madrid their practices were different from later encouraged by rival socialist. It does not seem out of place affect the respect that the occasion of the first presidency of Rodríguez Zapatero repeated his tireless popular things in economics were well-to destination in the diagnosis, of course, because the socialist government was limited to apply the same prescriptions advocated by his predecessors. Posts
to outline a surprise, the last, there is the one that offers a guarantee that Tyrian and Trojan, socialist and popular, final offer, with solemn impudence, more of the same: whether globalization has led to ongoing profits are privatized while losses, however, socialize, and officials and pensioners know, there is no guarantee that the excesses and absurdities of recent years will not be repeated around the corner. MIKEL
AMETZOLA (Ex economist, founder of the gite Ametzola Bilbao).
English money in Switzerland.
atrocious live liberalism has pushed back the "ideas" to the cavemen and pockets of humans in a significant portion which serves to "fill" of the powerful again, with the sole aim of achieving "win that game of monopoly" that for them the world as they had previously not able to spend squandered for a few generations. Focusing on local it is funny how that story goes almost unnoticed on the more than 1500 families "Busted" with their money in Switzerland. Under English law there is tax crime (with jail sentences) for those who defraud more than 120,000 euros (for a lot less there are plenty of drug addicts in jail), and go unnoticed that the prison is escape for these people if they regularize their situation pay voluntarily. And the fight goes unnoticed between the tax agency that advocates be reviewed and acted upon only by taking into account the unpaid tax evasion on interest earned by these accounts. And now we are told that it is not and the tax inspectors group believes there is "to go to bag" and try to see where they come from "those money "because there are almost 100% chance that these funds are in turn themselves previous frauds undeclared income.
And the height of injustice is the information that adds that "if these wealthy families" are in conformity to admit where they have saved their capital, not already known to the Treasury, of which an employee of a British bank has given their names to French justice, but those who know where they are or even if there-and bring them back to Spain, the dreaded Treasury, for a lower price than we pay the rest of the English is willing to make a clean break idem new judges of the same and not exist complaint by the Treasury to be a voluntary statement. We do not know for whom such legislation be submitted to the police one day charged with stealing example of 120,000 euros to anyone. Why the rich can not sit on the bench? Evading
is as simple as placing several accounting entries. In the first case the money comes from a English bank to another Swiss, the second point in the English bank is twofold: firstly cancel the transfer to the Swiss bank (and thus also erases the tracks as the money is actually in Switzerland and to track would have to investigate there and not in the English State) and to compensate the seat makes a case out of money (the money theoretically what the customer is in their power to save or spend, but it really is in Switzerland, and repeated these business transactions, you will then see that it was made, they spent it!. And this web of fraud has a mount completely legal and ends up producing tremendous imbalances. Its economic consequences are so devastating that not even the social democrats "rationalizing" of the system or own rulers can afford right ultraliberal the luxury of turning his head away.
an example. Imagine a banana importing company based in Madrid who buys bananas in Costa Rica. The English company has 2 companies owned 100% of the same shareholders, one based in the Cayman Islands and other Islands Jersey (both tax havens). The Cayman Islands firm buys a kilo of bananas in Costa Rica to 1 euro and sold to the Jersey Islands to 2 euros. This in turn sold the company in Madrid for 3 euros and the importing company sells to Merca Madrid Madrid to 4 euros. In fact, the company has received EUR 3 tax benefit but the English State was 1 euro. Two thirds of the benefit not only failed but have been taxed out of the English state to be placed offshore in a completely legal. I remember that the data is provided spectacular of these islands where English companies exported a year as many tons of bananas to a number of producing countries together. Small examples of monstrous webs and evading huge amounts of money.
LORENZO MARTINEZ AGUILAR. (Writer and historian. Linares, Jaén.)
money markets and unethical merchants.
The Tax Office has estimated at 6,000 million refugee money in tax havens, belonging to about 3,000 English fortunes. In the seventeenth century, another century of great crisis, I warned Francisco de Quevedo in his sonnet entitled Warning to Spain. And it's easier, oh Spain! in many ways,
what all you took one,
you alone you can remove all.
At least since then, things have changed substantially in this regard. Although, of course, then there is not yet the rule of the modern market, or markets, in their singular and plural versions, which gives both. The stock market, the banking market, the business market, the market speculators, the labor market, the housing market, the market of mergers of money in their hot versions (such as the soup of the poor) or cold (like the soul of an inquisitor). Ie the stock market, stocks, banks, which are like the three persons of the verb Market, and only one god: money. "Mighty Knight," which was nicknamed the above Quevedo.
Money is a religion of offshore (tax), hell (non) is a green god of neoliberal ideology, and all its power concentrated in the market, under the designs of its high priests, bankers, brokers, speculators , big businesses that make up the vast wildlife that inhabits its environment. But without soul or scruples. Has developed its own language, born of the "Latins" of the economy with the methodology of Abbreviations: GDP, IPG, G-20, IBEX, BEF, FROB ... the news that people are ambushed in the pages of the newspapers, we are bitter everyday existence, especially the troops who washed up on the unemployment obligation, delaying their work to the walks of despair because of a crisis they invented the market and the high priests of financial engineering.
Markets always work miracles alienating key virtue, are the theological ascetics money under neoliberal catechism which increases all: company profits to distribute to the rich, impunity, corruption, social inequality, injustice, unemployment. It is your mission. His modus vivendi. His empire. His law. Unethical, selfish, unsympathetic, without conscience. How do you explain that while increases, the number of records in the lists of INEM, in parallel, say, increases the minimum of the rich (at least one million euros free of dust, straw and crisis)? But we knew this a long time. The issue is that each time the problem becomes more deeply, especially since the market and the Merchants assigned the role of governments and video maceros vigilant to meet the undisputed rules of the market and carry out laws for the " marketing. " The market, when in the chaos that the same has engendered, is recovering in udders drinking public money out of necessity to maintain the peg of (their) system, however, when the Nile grows (ie, in times of plenty) are exclusive and selective in the clientele distribution.
are the designs of the market. And against these, so far, no one can. We're all in there. It is inevitable as breathing. We can only appeal to the gurus of the impossible (before they prayed to Saint Rita of Cascia, a lawyer for the impossible, but the custom of the old patronage theocratic passes) so that our name is not on the list of what the market has nominated to fall under the claws of poverty (where the dignity lost their social rights) and being slowly engulfed by the sharp teeth of the letters with which we devoured. And in that list are almost all, except, of course, those who take shelter in tax havens, that Eden where God put his first business and money are gathered baskets, free of crisis, taxes, ethics and remorse. The same governing Market, Markets, Marketing.
KLAUSBAR Ó METRO
Anthology of quotes in the wake of Kraus.
Jose Saramago. Optimistic.
We are sunk in the shit of the world and can not be optimistic. Which is optimistic or stupid, or insensitive, or a millionaire. FRANZ KAFKA
. Progress. Believing
progress does not mean believing that any progress has taken place. That clearly would not believe.
Juan Goytisolo. Success and recognition.
(My way of being). A view of life free from all academic glory. My seventy-six years I continue to learn words, words and more words as a schoolboy, about knowing that inevitably disappear with me. I do not know if that's a disturbing system immaturity or the result of the Socratic motto engraved on the pediment of Delphi and translated into our language that reads simply: Know thyself.
WMURBAN. Ignorance and enlightenment.
men may never have been at once so learned and yet so ignorant, so worried about the end without having a clear objective, so disappointing and totally victims of illusion. This extraordinary contradiction is apparent in all our modern culture, in our science and our philosophy, our literature and our art.
SPEECH AGAINST INTELLECTUAL 3. Commitment.
The intellectual love of dressing up as a revolutionary. (Recent Trapiello controversy between Andrew and Benjamin Prado, with more reason to Trapiello). Old story of Rafael Alberti and Miguel Hernández (no doubt huge difference in favor of Miguel Hernandez). Sometimes it shows as an exquisite dilettante to tell us is beyond good and evil, who, like Joyce, is not interested in the noise of bombs falling on the city but caused by the wind that wakes the leaf. When the commitment is genuine creation is inseparable from our commitment to life. Accurate words of Walter Benjamin, "Breton said that I must break with a practice that appears to the public the literary expressions of a particular form of existence, while being denied that form of existence. This brief and dialectically: the field of poetry was busted from the inside when a circle of persons closely related to each other began to practice the "Life Poetics "to the extreme limits of the possible."
Maybe add, that did not know him, lacked the courage or knowledge to do Arthur Rimbaud. His incendiary poems were blanks. He was taken to exhaustion. He had to run away and drag her life painfully, ceasing to be a poet and man of evil converting commitment to yourself. He did not die when he died, but before, when he knew how to live and therefore ceased at the time of writing. Stopped there for him and the literature was so muted as his own life. Eduard von
Baeurnfield In 1858, playwright and critic, wrote: "If I can not write according to my feelings, better not write anything at all. " What is freedom for the writer? Perhaps unknown to both himself and know the language that needs to be developed. Not subject to any dogma. Not subject to the laws of the market. Dreaming of idealistic and ethical revolution is in the uncontaminated utopia and live up to that dream as far as possible. Craftsman of language he has inherited from the great writers and he continues to work with their own development, recreating with their ingenuity, avoiding clichés, stereotypes, idioms, fixed rules and deformations that impoverished. In creating Bakunin be as radical as it was in the criticism of the society of his time. Start pessimism to fight for a more optimistic. Fight to the end of their strength, both vital and creative social for exposing corruption, hypocrisy, conservative traditions, the reactionary optimism, the market for devastating terrorist consciences and beauty. Do not ignore that the only just war is declared against religions, capitalism, the usurpers nationalist revolutionary processes. Always keep in mind the words of the author of all time, Shakespeare, spoken by King Lear:
Gods! Who says it has reached the worst?
Now I'm worse than ever.
And it could be worse. We are not the worst
While we say something is worse.
The commitment is always with yourself and with the knowledge and possible transfer. And renounce the possession of goods and honors, which require much reliance spurious. "It's important not to acquire and easier to lose," said Seneca the Stoic. Diogenes is said that when he thought that fortune was looking at him shouting: "I can not tie myself to this mad dog." Living in a simple way, just with what you do meet your needs and instead deepen and enrich the most spiritual, conceptual would say better, that is, bet on it against the superfluous need to be independent. As he writes Juan Goytisolo in his praise of knowledge is not profitable, "Knowledge does not lead the most profitable times of isolation and marginalization. There are no courts of the Inquisition and state censorship and in times of Franco, but preventive measures, the cordon sanitaire of Marcel Bataillon speaks in his work on Erasmus and the Europeans, even surreptitiously acting within the scope of our studies. The result is stagnation and fossilization of knowledge (...) Those who do not bend the spine cautiously, hardly rise through the ranks (...) The political transition that changed the course of our society has not been accompanied, but in its most and media surface, a cultural transition. "
COLLABORATIONS
RAFAEL DE Cozart. Writer. Professor of Literature at the University of Seville.
The last dinosaurs to extinction.
If one reviews the past 40 years of literary history through the generations of writers, it is difficult to deduce that the motivations of these definitely have been standardized and are just past the last dinosaurs. Between 50 and 70 of the last century there was a uniformity of conscience, in relative diversity of styles, a critical passion, in many cases even openly confronted the system, perhaps because most writers and intellectuals did not live solely on their books. Literary recognition was not so directly related to the volume of books sold and you could say that literature was living with some independence from the market, with some exceptions. Even in the cultural stage of the transition (more or less between 1976 and 1979) the main activity of the writer was not the pure creation, not the main obsession was to become profitable contracts, perhaps because the infrastructure was still a sense editorial mainly artisanal except a small number of companies. A simple view of the common run time enough to explain this, and hence the relative independence of the intellectual, even against her editor. Since the early 80's began to diversify the publishing industry, previously almost exclusively focused on Madrid and Barcelona, \u200b\u200band literature gradually starts to become industrial, to fully enter the market laws, which many writers , and especially younger believers become obedient to these commercial slogans. Advertising investment, which had previously been minimal, and often dependent on free advertising, begins to understand as essential, with the literary supplements support their own magazines and publishing groups. In that industry lacks "fresh meat" fast-spreading and quick replacement, according to the instructions also multinationals, exchanged their "stickers" in large fairs (Frankfurt type) marking lines and rehearsed fashion: historical novel, detective, adventure, etc.
not easy to find writers today who have not reached fifty with a volume of work even higher than, for example, published Delibes in his life, obviously runs and compensation that far exceeds that obtained by those writers pre-industrial. The life of debauchery and excess night for example, the generation of half a century, has given way to the writer teetotaler, non smoker, its essential administrative work eight hours daily, friendly clerk compliance with orders coming from above, of course always subject to political correctness and indices sales.
Some of the writers "preindustrial" have tried and succeeded in boarding the train. Others have been in deadlock, as emeritus, no editor can, while a few are still fighting in the gap, true to their criteria, naturally more aggressive and more wrong than ever, while new fronts arise from small independent publishers of new craft, with a clear awareness of what they want to address the system. This is the only hope for which we assume from the outset not be in the game. If you want an example of those fighters irrelevant, just the example that has created this digital magazine Torch XXI Century. JESUS \u200b\u200b
Munarriz. Writer. Director of Hyperion. Blas de Otero
A in 2010
Spain, Blas, see, no one, no longer
that suffers.
With its pluses and minuses
freedom again today
and
injustice is not attributable to one or mandatory
screed and besotted
rampant. Excess fat
and shortage of ideas
coexist successfully and provide feedback;
the public is a den of thieves, shelter finance
serial murderers, safes
silos long-range weapons;
not no goals or horizons
but the money, and a few loopholes
remaining, soon come,
just suggested,
with firefighting,
multinationals
special bodies, the zurrapa
intellectuals.
only in poetry,
as then, Blas,
corners are slightly domesticated,
rebellious even though the candy
tempt power and undermine
and fish often
deserters.
Spain and Europe and Europe is already the world and the world
a balloon fragile, overcrowded
, unjust, abused, confused,
source of wealth for the few,
of suffering for almost everyone.
We let you choose, yes, between bad and evil
known yet known.
You see, Blas,
this is not what you dreamed you, then.
The Russians have deleted
twentieth century and the Chinese, the bias will be masters of the world
century XXII or XXIII.
If not hit the balloon before the latest setback.
MANUEL GARCIA
WINE. Novelist, essayist and critic.
transcendental meditations. II. Royalists life. - Today, three hundred countries in the world, seven are only monarchists.
- One of the seven is Spain.
- Spain is also the only country in the world and in history that has escaped twice from the monarchy and has twice relocated.
- Why Spain will always be different?
- The worst thing is that most of the English is very happy with their monarch.
- The monarch appointed, bound and securely tied, the dictator Francisco Franco, one of the greatest oppressors of freedom of the twentieth century.
- Thanks to the tabloids, it preaches, for example, the graces of the princes and Froilan boy and his cousins.
- Thanks also to the media that have changed the jacket.
- and the political class. Particularly on the left (PSOE and PCE) who betrayed the Republic.
- How and why has it got to where is this king, which seems endowed with a special intelligence?
- What achievements has been to be there, Mr. de Bourbon and Bourbon?
- Do not seek. None. Is there by chance biological.
- is sad is not it? E unfair.
-is there, without merit, with his family: twenty phantoms also without merit, illiterate, lazy, useless, wasteful of public money.
- A president has to make that choice ... and is expelled after four years, or sooner, if not fulfilling their duties.
- Most who reject the English republic was blaming the disaster, they say, the Second English Republic.
- is the result of brainwashing that has led to many forty years of slander.
- The Second Republic was not only NOT a disaster, but constituted the first serious attempt to modernize the country.
- In any case, when Republicans talk about not allude Republic-or-not necessarily the experience of 30 years of the twentieth century, but a form of state invented by the Greeks, who reinvented the Enlightenment and more modern more rational and more truly democratic than monarchy.
- Why monarchy in Spain?
- Why are monarchists in Spain?
- The betrayal of politicians.
- The treason of the intellectuals.
- When Franco and his band gave the coup-18th July 1936 - Spain was a republic output of the popular will expressed at the polls.
- When Franco died, as had to repair broken history, should have been spare the republic.
- But left-wing parties, mainly the PSOE and the PC, took out a truce indignant monarch's acceptance that it had appointed dictator for legalization within the new sociological and political Franco, who had taken over the situation.
- And, in collusion with his new traveling companions, were provided to more infamous still.
- Before the first elections, legalizing all political parties, even the most extreme, but not Republican parties.
- This consolidated the forgery, because the time polls, the Republicans would have had at that time 48% of the votes, Falangists 16% and 36% monarchists.
XXI CENTURY GUN
Forthcoming issues.
Themes.
Sexuality. Media
prostitution. Soledad informative. Del
national problem.
judges, justice.
dialogue Is he dead?
the Jewish Question Texts
Sexuality. Media
prostitution. Soledad informative. Del
national problem.
judges, justice.
dialogue Is he dead?
the Jewish Question Texts
(among others). Michel de Montaigne
. Walter Benjamin. Solomon. Herbert Marcusse. Schopenhauer. TS Eliot. Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio. Albert Einstein. Juan Goytisolo.
and writers who have sent as contributions to the XXI Century Torch
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