Written by: Andrew L. Matthew
writing this article at the risk of repeating my thoughts on the primitive accumulation of capital resulting from the practice of politics and the corruption of the past twenty years, but it is necessary to emphasize the specificity of this phenomenon in the Dominican Republic to understand what has happened.
Some economists say that primitive accumulation plays in the economy has the same role in the theology of original sin. Moreover, the metaphor is spread from Chapter XXIV of the famous book of Karl Marx "Capital" for though this accumulation is not the result of the capitalist system that Marx studied, it is nevertheless a starting point for him. This explains in fact the primitive accumulation is how to form the primary stock of wealth in the hands of capitalists. Marx abounded regarding this process was anything but idyllic, and drew the character of the system according to the degree of exploitation and pillage that primitive accumulation entailed.
This category has historically served to study many social formations, and was what, for example, Juan Bosch attempted in his famous book "Dominican social composition." Only the social sciences in the Republic Dominican are very creative and have always operated repeating their own schemes. While it is true that in our history, as in the English model that Marx described, originating large accumulations are associated with the expansion of the capitalist character of the mode of production, it is also true that today this phenomenon has a wealth accumulation area more closely linked to the exercise of political power.
What is the specific gravity reaches the national wealth and money from political corruption? Have not had to fold the national oligarchies the thrust of corporate corruption from political groups? Is not political practice of the economic ladder expeditious ways in our country? A hundred billion pesos a year, estimate of what is lost in corruption, are not sufficient to deform the social stratification?
If according to classical theory the money always expressed a lot of work involved, and always measured values, in the Dominican Republic is not so. While for fifteen million dollars in profit one has to transform industrial raw materials, purchased equipment, pay salaries and taxes, plan production, to place the goods in the circuit of market movement, a corrupt politician with no infrastructure, without turning on machinery, workers unpaid payroll, no taxes, just with a grain import exemption under the provisions of protection of NAFTA, for example, can get into the pockets fifteen million dollars in a simple commercial transaction, based on political influence.
Corruption has become a whole range of values \u200b\u200bof the Dominican social life, and as the money is value in pure state, an official can be won through influence peddling, what a real producer of wealth would never reach honest work, is a serious disruption of social roles, which discourages the productive apparatus nation. This "original sin" of accumulation is a tempting challenge for research, because many "entrepreneurs" and the rich that multiply before our eyes, from the political apparatus, without knowing the primary stock of their wealth. And since money is an invisible force, compared with traditional rich, these politicians "new rich" rub shoulders with an oligarchy that disdains, but that fears them.
What has happened is, therefore, that the level of corruption has changed the balance of power in the Dominican social life, and primitive accumulation that political practice has become corporate. There are politicians as rich as the most sonorous names of the traditional oligarchy. And the rich set of primitive accumulation which is the state competes advantageously with the powers of the nation. Was not the excesses of the primitive accumulation which was the foundation of rejection so strong that the powers given to the re-election bid of President Fernandez?
Some economists say that primitive accumulation plays in the economy has the same role in the theology of original sin. Moreover, the metaphor is spread from Chapter XXIV of the famous book of Karl Marx "Capital" for though this accumulation is not the result of the capitalist system that Marx studied, it is nevertheless a starting point for him. This explains in fact the primitive accumulation is how to form the primary stock of wealth in the hands of capitalists. Marx abounded regarding this process was anything but idyllic, and drew the character of the system according to the degree of exploitation and pillage that primitive accumulation entailed.
This category has historically served to study many social formations, and was what, for example, Juan Bosch attempted in his famous book "Dominican social composition." Only the social sciences in the Republic Dominican are very creative and have always operated repeating their own schemes. While it is true that in our history, as in the English model that Marx described, originating large accumulations are associated with the expansion of the capitalist character of the mode of production, it is also true that today this phenomenon has a wealth accumulation area more closely linked to the exercise of political power.
What is the specific gravity reaches the national wealth and money from political corruption? Have not had to fold the national oligarchies the thrust of corporate corruption from political groups? Is not political practice of the economic ladder expeditious ways in our country? A hundred billion pesos a year, estimate of what is lost in corruption, are not sufficient to deform the social stratification?
If according to classical theory the money always expressed a lot of work involved, and always measured values, in the Dominican Republic is not so. While for fifteen million dollars in profit one has to transform industrial raw materials, purchased equipment, pay salaries and taxes, plan production, to place the goods in the circuit of market movement, a corrupt politician with no infrastructure, without turning on machinery, workers unpaid payroll, no taxes, just with a grain import exemption under the provisions of protection of NAFTA, for example, can get into the pockets fifteen million dollars in a simple commercial transaction, based on political influence.
Corruption has become a whole range of values \u200b\u200bof the Dominican social life, and as the money is value in pure state, an official can be won through influence peddling, what a real producer of wealth would never reach honest work, is a serious disruption of social roles, which discourages the productive apparatus nation. This "original sin" of accumulation is a tempting challenge for research, because many "entrepreneurs" and the rich that multiply before our eyes, from the political apparatus, without knowing the primary stock of their wealth. And since money is an invisible force, compared with traditional rich, these politicians "new rich" rub shoulders with an oligarchy that disdains, but that fears them.
What has happened is, therefore, that the level of corruption has changed the balance of power in the Dominican social life, and primitive accumulation that political practice has become corporate. There are politicians as rich as the most sonorous names of the traditional oligarchy. And the rich set of primitive accumulation which is the state competes advantageously with the powers of the nation. Was not the excesses of the primitive accumulation which was the foundation of rejection so strong that the powers given to the re-election bid of President Fernandez?
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