A-Infos (en) Argentina, Organizacion-Obrera #102: IS MILEI LIBERTARIAN? (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Since the arrival of this Government to power at the hands of Javier 
Milei, the idea that the president is an Anarchist, Libertarian, or, as 
he says, Anarcho-capitalist, has been installed in society. ---- Because 
of this it is vital to make clear what a libertarian thinks. What can 
you understand when talking about Freedom. ---- For a Libertarian, the 
idea of freedom is associated with Mutual Support and Fraternity, which 
is expressed in solidarity with his colleagues and with the community. 
---- he will seek by all possible means to organize himself into 
societies, mutual societies, athenaeums, etc. to be able to confront the 
attacks of capitalism, which seeks to sow inequality, hunger and misery.

The ideal of Freedom will be carried as a tool to defend education, 
health, and work, when these are in danger.

In the Organization there are no class differences, the only difference 
that exists is with the Bourgeois and Aristocratic classes that oppress 
the lower classes.

In this way, through the organization, we will seek to reach the common 
good, generating social change.

But the change that these pseudo Libertarians and their socio-economic 
policies intend to carry out.

Now, after having read all the above, you may think; Is Milei 
Libertarian? Of course not. Just by looking at the adjustments that he 
plans to carry out in Health, Education and at work, we can affirm that 
Javier Milei is Not a Libertarian. Javier Milei is an Ultra-Right 
Reactionary.

It is important to highlight the Importance of Anarchic Communism as a 
containment dam against the onslaught of the fiercest of the attacks of 
Neoliberalism.

To further mark the differences that distance us from this messianic 
leader who calls himself LIBERTARIAN, I am going to stand on the Plane 
of Education, using the ideas of LIBERTARIAN pedagogues from the late 
19th and 20th centuries, in the attempt to promote Education. 
Libertarian for the children of the Proletarians of our country.

I am going to share then a definition of the Word ÁCRATA offered by 
Osvaldo Bayer, extracted from the book "Libertarian Education in 
Argentina and Mexico (1861-1945) Chapter 1":

"ACRACIA WAS THE UTOPIAN COUNTRY THAT ANARCHISTS DREAMED OF, A WORLD 
WITHOUT GOVERNMENT WHERE EVERYTHING WAS RESOLVED BY MUTUAL AGREEMENT, 
MUTUAL HELP, SOLIDARITY. THE ACRATS WERE THOSE WHO THINK THAT THE MOST 
SACRED THING IS FREEDOM, AND POWER MEANS THE DENIAL OF FREEDOM, 
THEREFORE, OF DIGNITY..."

In one of the levels in which the ideological and discursive battle can 
be presented, it is in the Educational Plan, seeing the scope that the 
reform in education that the Liberal Government of Javier Milei wants to 
carry out can have.

Some of the projects that endanger Education are the tariffing of public 
universities, the implementation of entrance exams and the removal of 
the CBC. This at the University level.

In the field of Primary School, it is planned to allow competition 
between educational establishments, make it mandatory starting in the 
fourth grade of primary school and make it mandatory for secondary school.

What can a government look for by making these educational changes?

Here I could talk about economics, obviously with these reforms the aim 
is to have an unskilled, uneducated workforce in the not too distant 
future. A society more backward than the current one. Do not think that 
we are in a superlative economic, social and educational situation. 
Society continues to pay dearly for the disastrous governments that 
preceded the current one. But making things worse is very different from 
correcting them.

Teachers still continue to earn salaries that they lose to inflation, we 
continue to deal with the lack of union representation (in the case of 
the Province of BS AS), we continue to see and live with the poor 
building conditions of the schools, although some are in good condition. 
conditions.

But, returning to the reasons for writing this article, it is necessary 
to raise the ideological difference between the so-called Libertarians 
and us, colleagues who are on this side of the aisle.

It is necessary to transcribe a fragment of some words by Mijaíl 
Bakunin, taken from chapter 2 of the book "The Libertarian Precursors 
and their Pedagogical Ideas":

". - ...IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE GREAT PROBLEM OF THE EDUCATION OF THE 
PEOPLE DEPENDS ON THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM - MUCH MORE DIFFICULT - OF 
THE RADICAL CHANGE IN THE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THE WORKING MASSES. 
RAISE THOSE CONDITIONS, RESTORE TO WORK WHAT BELONGS TO IT BY JUSTICE 
AND WITH THIS YOU WILL HAVE ALLOWED THE WORKERS TO ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE, 
PROSPERITY, LEISURE TIME, THEN THEY CAN BE SURE, THEY HAD CREATED A 
CIVILIZATION BETTER THAN OURS"...

Once read and understood this, where the World moves forward. World 
where Globalization continues to take its toll, where the battles are 
still old, but with a different imprint, where yesterday's problems are 
the same as today's.

Can we think and remain calm when hearing that a Character like Milei, 
who comes to power as a consequence of bad governments, as a consequence 
of the disbelief that the Political Class in Society (and especially in 
the youth) is Anarchist? What is a Libertarian government?

Could a Libertarian government try to carry out a Tremendous Educational 
Reform that would attack the majority, against the children of the 
exploited?

It is important to think about how the different Libertarian Educators 
and Pedagogues, such as William Godwin, Paul Robin and Francisco Ferrer 
Guardia, saw education. "EDUCATION AND LIBERTARIAN PEDAGOGY WAS SEEN BY 
THE MAJORITY OF THESE, THROUGHOUT THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY, AS A 
POTENTIAL FACTOR FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION. A REAL MEANS FOR LIBERATION 
FROM THE OPPRESSION AND EVERYDAY ALIENATION OF THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM OF 
MEN."

Given the current situation, the ideals of Fraternity and Mutual Support 
as well as Solidarity must prevail to confront Liberalism, a 
Neoliberalism that takes as its banner the premises of 
Anarcho-capitalism, and then affirm that JAVIER MILEI IS NOT LIBERTARIAN.

HEALTH COMPANIONS

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