Debate con Michael Löwy. Pope, ¿Radical and anti-systemic?
Löwy is a recognized Franco-Brazilian Marxist intellectual. In an interview the newspaper published Page 12 he 9 last July, widely praised the Pope Francisco. Why we think it is a very wrong attitude. It is not the first time Lowy writes about Judeo-Christian religion. Among other books, public Redemption and Utopia: Libertarian Judaism in Central Europe (1997), War Gods: religion and politics in Latin America (1999), Sociology and religion: dissidents approaches (2009) Christianity and his new release: Marxist perspectives and ecosocialistas (2019).
Close proximity to Brazil's Landless Movement and advocate of Latin American liberation theology, Lowy reference politically in the United Secretariat (ITS) of the Fourth International. Why it not generally considered only Marxist, but also Trotskyist. But the wrong strategy SU, which for decades beautifies the political leaderships and social movements that end up being functional center-capitalism, vades the work and positions of Löwry. The problem is that that location is the opposite of all the teachings of Leon Trotsky.
Neither radical nor antisystemic: pro-capitalista
"Pope Francisco, although it has its roots in the Christian culture of Latin American liberation, Argentina combined with the progressive Catholic theology Theology People, at some point it goes beyond, It is more radical, most anti-systemic ", Lowy tells him in his apartment in Paris interviewer, Emilce Miracles, theologian and professor at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina (UCA).
What it does antisystemic? Which opposes the capitalist system? It is one thing to criticize occasionally poverty or god-money, as they do this and made many other popes, and another, very different, is challenging background that permanent factory poverty that is the capitalist system. However, in its ideological and political setback Löwy no doubt: "Laudato If encyclical is a very critical economic system; a radical critique that goes beyond theology People; an anti-systemic encyclical, even anticapitalist, Although the word 'capitalism' does not appear ". Löwy there and he errs badly, Piney way. Pope again and again defends capitalism.
In July 2014, in the Vatican, a 500 entrepreneurs of the International Christian Union of Business (UNIAPAC) told them: "Businesses should not exist to make money, Although money serves to measure their performance. Businesses exist to serve ... Therefore it is urgent to recover the social sense of financial activity and banking, with the best intelligence and ingenuity of entrepreneurs " (1). Does anyone know any company that does not exist "to make money", but "to serve"? Anybody know any banker "social sense"?
In May 2017, to the Ilva factory workers told Genoa: "The employer knows his employees, He is working alongside, with them. Let us not forget that the entrepreneur is first and foremost a worker. Share fatigue and the joys of work ... When you have to fire someone, It is always a tragic decision. If I could, ... And I would not criticize speculators and mercenaries, insists: "When the economy is inhabited by businessmen, companies are friendly people and the poor " (2). Does anyone know entrepreneurs "friends of the people and the poor"?
And few days ago, La Nacion newspaper says: "Francisco met with fifty oilmen, those who asked them to care for the environment " (3). Anybody know any oil bourgeois who "take care of the environment"? Please! Not be fooled: but criticize some "excess" neoliberal, Pope every day works not to overthrow capitalism but by the "social peace", ie class conciliation, for what, with some partial reform, this unjust system naturally continue to meet their raison d'etre: exploit the working class and plunder the people of the world. Why the Catholic theologian who interviews the luxury Lowy, Unfortunately rightly, stating that he "You not agree with the idea that religion is the bulwark of obscurantism, as Marx and Engels saw ". For our part, and respecting the freedom of religion, We continue to maintain that Marx and Engels "Religion is the opium of the people".
Therefore wrong, about exit Löwy argues that "If in the next historical period left manages to change the correlation of forces, it will be because these militants, that is to say, pastoral people, of grassroots, theologians, they will play a very important role. Without them it will not pass anything ". We do not deny that some part of those plays some role in the social struggle of any country. But aside from being untrue that "Without them it is not going to happen", for "Change the correlation of forces" we must fight from the left in favor of revolution and against all those who promote the pacts class, as the Pope and other religious domes.
further, Pope is propatriarcal
As a man informed, Löwy is aware that his report is published by a newspaper in Argentina, country where we are proud to be a mainstay of the global feminist and dissident wave. Therefore it is striking that omits any reference to the papal reactionary campaign against "gender ideology".
But from the MST, Free Diversity and Boards and to the left we will never forget that the equal marriage law called the Pope Francisco "Day campaignblo”, that the law of gender identity he called "nuclear bomb" what "Destroys humanity", that the right to abortion he called "Nazis white glove", that parents of niñxs that appear to be sexual dissenters advised them "the psychologist" as if they were enfermxs and the last Vatican text on family is entitled "Male and female he created them".
In his apology for Pope, Lowy also "forgets" that is the same as deprotected Jesuit priests at the repression of the last military dictatorship, the same who called for reconciliation with the genocides and the one that consciously protected, even creating in charges in the Vatican, a number of bishops and pedophile priests from various countries.
In 2020, boycotting the papal visit
The head of the Roman Catholic Church and announced: "Next year I would like to visit Argentina". Surely from the Curia, government, the establishment parties and other political sectors, trade unions and social and begin to prepare the gala welcome and invitation to plan major events.
As well; consistent with our socialist and anticlerical do the exact opposite path: intense agitation campaign calling national youth, employee lending, women and dissidence to refuse his visit and boycott their actions. As part of our political struggle against the capitalist and patriarchal system, We continue to demand the separation of church and state, the cancellation of all state subsidies to religious education and trial and punishment of all abusive priests.
Pablo Vasco
