Catastrophe or Revolution

Resumen

El exjefe economista del Fondo Monetario Internacional argumentó que se necesita una “revolución” keynesiana de la política económica para evitar una futura “catástrofe”. Su tesis se somete aquí a un examen crítico sobre la base de un criterio de investigación científica del proceso histórico definido como la “ley de reproducción y tendencia del capital”. De este método de investigación surge una predicción: la libertad del capital y su tendencia a centralizarse en cada vez menos manos constituye una amenaza para otras libertades y para las instituciones democráticas liberales de nuestro tiempo. Ante tal perspectiva, Keynes no es suficiente, como tampoco basta con invocar un ingreso. La única revolución capaz de evitar una catástrofe de derechos está en la recuperación y relanzamiento de la palanca más fuerte en la historia de las luchas políticas: la planifica ción colectiva, entendida esta vez en el nuevo y subversivo sentido de factor de desarrollo de la libre individualidad social y de un nuevo tipo humano liberado. Un desafío que pone en tela de juicio toda una arquitectura de creencias e impone una reflexión sobre todos los movimientos de lucha y emancipación de nuestro tiempo, aún encerrados en el estrecho recinto de un paradigma liberal ya en crisis.

Palabras clave:

Planificación colectiva revolución catástrofe Marx centralización del capital

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