By Cynthia V. Lana
"Everything comes to rest in the supply of the Americas is in the hands of a dozen parent of Cadiz and another dozen in London and New York. This monopoly is the worst, most vile and limited. The consequence is that Americans are compelled to buy at huge all what they want to sell. And of course buy the wealthy. And this just encourages agriculture and manufacturing, which are the national wealth of every country. "
Bernardo de Monteagudo (" The Censor ", December 18, 1812).
According to the classical definition John Kenneth Galbraith, the benefit of transnational corporations consists of two fundamental characteristics: the use of the asymmetries between the country of origin and host countries of the filing of capital and the expansion of its financial sector.
To this, "said Galbraith in 1967 - firms should be placed first in competition at the national level, because success in this space depends on its expansionism.
currently operating the scheme has changed in some respects. As pointed out by Samir Amin, "U.S. multinationals and was formerly a U.S. state, transnational and British state British, French and a state transnational French-Belgian multinational smaller, and a Belgian state. However, today there are simply transnational, while there is no state that integrates them. "
assimilation between the political and economic, that characterized the dominant powers global market since the emergence of imperialism, lives its period of historic extinction. Today no one can speak of imperialism as an integrated process, but of imperialism, ie dominant transnational capitalist centers in a state of conflict, in which nation states, yet the central countries play a subordinate role.
Dissemination and policy instruments
however, has not gone the need for a common economic management of the global market by multinationals. The difference with the recent past is that there is no centralized political instrument to carry it out. The G7 and other attempts like that have not been particularly successful.
Here again, we turn to the incomparable definition of Samir Amin: "Capitalism is made up of contradictions and the entire capitalist enterprise is at the same time associated but also in conflict with the neighbor, but this does not stop them have common interests. Conflicting commercial, I would say, in constant competition, but also have common interests and common interests are the new basis of collective imperialism. "
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UIA Transnational dominant in our subcontinent are trying to convert the MERCOSUR as an instrument of the characteristics identified, in an inclusive regional political common economic management.
line seems to be expressed in the statement that the Industrial Union of Argentina (UIA)-controlled by Techint, circulated a few days ago about the possible nationalization of the company Sidor by the Bolivarian government of Venezuela.
The text "acknowledges the efforts being made by the Argentine government aimed to defend the project Terniun Sidor, a project that successfully embodies the policy of integration between Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela."
But more than integration, we would say that "the project" Sidor Terniun system is a classic transfer of wealth: the steel is sold cheaply to its own companies abroad and then imported, more expensive, seamless pipes (which are essential for the Venezuelan oil industry). This is a "value added" that is generated in the productive process itself and through which the transnational corporation carries out the various stages in different countries.
This is the business system that houses the neodevelopmentalist trend that emerged in Latin America as a result of the neoliberal crisis. The same process leading monopolies sheltered in the monetarist orthodoxy or the denationalization of the productive and now, as Claudio Katz, "oiled to maintain links with the financial capital, promote more industrial courses to encourage the development of new transnational 'Multilatinas' (as Slim, Odebrecht, Techint)."
"These companies," continued Katz, profited from privatization, but now industrial businesses prioritize and rank the regional market. "
The time for decisions
Following the announcement of the nationalization of Sidor, Techint is threatening to lead a boycott of Venezuela's state oil industry, failing to sell the strategic input while warns Argentina over the consequences of his retirement in the labor market. This prompted an understandable concern in the conduct of the Metal Workers Union, to the point that its leaders sent a letter to President Hugo Chavez calling for the crime.
President Cristina also seems to have taken up the matter with the aim of safeguarding the assets of "an enterprise Argentina."
But as we saw in these notes is not a company Techint Argentina. Be clear on this means nothing less than give the MERCOSUR project category reuniting of the Patria Grande and not a simple extension of the labor and consumer markets to transnational integrated and diversified, which are key centers of imperialism spread today.
therefore depend on the region's leaders know implement policies that build hope in our villages or maintain the status quo that, sooner or later, will prove to be another disappointment.
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