THE JUS SEMPER GLOBAL ALLIANCE JUS SEMPER NEWSLETTER In Pursuit of the People and Planet Paradigm Our Latest Publications on Building the New Paradigm of People and Planet HIGHLIGHTS JUS SEMPER Newsletter – Winter-Spring 2021 C O V I D - 1 9 a n d E t h n i c - P e a s a n t (Un)witting Servitude Capitalism Has Failed Back to Production: D e m o c r a c y , C a t a s t r o p h e Resistance in South a n d M i n d s — What Next? (John An Analysis of the Condorcetism and Capitalism — (John America and Meso- Manipulation Bellamy Foster) A Imperialist Global Popular Participation Bellamy Foster and america to the 4.0 ( A l e j a n d r o powerful narrative that Economy (Intan (Andrea Surbone) An Intan Suwandi) — A A g r i c u l t u r e o f Teitelbaum) Wi t h explains Capitalism, its Suwandi) Enlightening innovative institutional true eye opener about C a t a s t r o p h e a l m o s t a b s o l u t e most devastating form e s s a y o n h o w structure to replace h o w t h e c u r r e n t Capitalism (Nubia control of the means of Neoliberalism, and imperialism extracts the current system to p a n d e m i c i s a n Barrera Silva) of production and the mainsprings of wealth from the global build a new society. inherent element of T h e A m a z o n i s communication and h u m a n a c t i o n i n South and keeps it Page 4 the dominant system becoming wiped out an unlimited capacity pursuit of freedom and impoverished to enrich that it is driving the due to the production to manipulate minds, sustainability. t h e i m p e r i a l world and humanity to o f i n d u s t r i a l l y the dominant system is Page 4 metropolises of the the brink of extinction processed foods for winning the battle. global North. Page 4 unless we organise to humans and animals Page 3 replace it. Page 2 Page 3 ! ! ! ! Imperialism in the Anthropocene (John Bellamy The Preemptive Counterrevolution and the Rise The Propaganda Model Revisited (Edward S. Foster) P. 5 of the Far Right in Brazil (Ricardo Antunes) P. 8 Herman) P. 10 The Commonplaces of Environmental Marx’s Open-ended Critique (John Bellamy A Labour Code for the 21st Century (Alain Scepticism (Richard Douglas) P. 5 Foster) P. 8 Supiot) P. 11 Work and Unionism in Mexico (Enrique de la A Tale of Two Utopias: Work in a Post-Growth After Industrialism: Reviving Nature in the 21st Garza Toledo and Gerardo Otero) P. 6 World (Simon Mair et al) P. 9 Century (Reinhard Olschanski) P. 11 The Pharmaceutical Industry in Contemporary Wellbeing Matters — Tackling growth Capitalism (Joel Lexchin) P. 6 California's Migrant Workers (Bruce dependency (Tim Jackson) P. 9 Neuburger) P. 11 Facing the Anthropocene (Ian Angus) P. 7 The Contagion of Capital (John Bellamy Foster et al) P. 10 The Case for a Basic Income (Guy Standing) P. When Did the Anthropocene Begin… and Why 12 Does It Matter? (Ian Angus) P. 7 The Post-Growth Challenge (Tim Jackson) P. 10 Beyond Consumer Capitalism Class? (Tim Jackson) P. 7 19/03/21 1 of 16 JUS SEMPER NEWSLETTER REPORTS FROM THE OBSERVATORY OF 2020 Report: Living-wage assessment – New Table T5: 1996 - 2018 Real Living-Wage Gaps L I V I N G W A G E S — J U S S E M P E R – assessment of Mexico's wage rate gap for Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, vis-à-vis the UNIVERSIDAD LA SALLE, MEXICO CITY 1996-2018. P. 14 US for All Employed in Manufacturing P. 15 2020 Report: Living-wage assessment – New Table T5: 1996 - 2017 Real Living-Wage Gaps assessment of Spain's wage rate gap 1996-2018 for Asia & Oceania economies, vis-à-vis the US 2020 Report: Living-wage assessment – PPP P. 14 for All Employed in Manufacturing P. 15 Wage rate gaps for selected "developed and emerging" economies for all employed in Aequus Index. Living Wages equalisation in manufacturing workers (1996 up to 2018) P. manufacturing, exposing the size of the gap in 12 41 countries P. 15 A Final Thought………………..…… P. 16 2020 Report: Living-wage assessment – New Table T5: 1996 - 2018 Real Living-Wage Gaps assessment of Argentina's wage rate gap for 14 Economies, vis-à-vis the US for All 1996-2018 P. 13 Employed in Manufacturing P. 15 2020 Report: Living-wage assessment – New Table T5: 1996 - 2018 Real Living-Wage Gaps assessment of Brazil's wage rate gap for European Economies, vis-à-vis the US for 1996-2018 P. 13 All Employed in Manufacturing P. 15 C O V I D - 1 9 A N D C ATA S T R O P H E multinational corporations, connecting various development. Chains of global exploitation and CAPITALISM — John Bellamy Foster and production zones, primarily in the Global expropriation have destabilized not only South,with the apex of world consumption, ecologies but the relations between species, Intan Suwandi finance, andaccumulation primarily in the creating a toxic brew of pathogens. All of this Global North. These commodity chains make can be seen as arising from the introduction of up the main material circuits of capital globally agribusiness with its genetic monocultures; that constitute the phenomenon of late massive ecosystem destruction involving the imperialism identified with the rise of uncontrolled mixture of species; and a system generalised monopoly-finance capital. In this of global valorization based on treating land, system, exorbitant imperial rents from the bodies, species, and ecosystems as so many control of global production are obtained not “free gifts” to be expropriated, irrespective of only from the global labour arbitrage, through natural and social limits. which multinational corporations with their Nor are new viruses the only emerging global headquarters in the centre of the system health problem. The overuse of antibiotics overexploit industrial labour in the periphery, within agribusiness as well as modern medicine but also increasingly through the global land has led to the dangerous growth of bacterial arbitrage, in which agribusiness multinationals superbugs generating increasing numbers of expropriate cheap land (and labour) in the deaths, which by mid–century could surpass Global South so as to produce export crops annual cancer deaths, and inducing the World mainly for sale in the Global North. Health Organization to declare a “global health The circuits of capital of late imperialism have emergency.” Since communicable diseases, due taken these tendencies to their fullest extent, to the unequal conditions of capitalist class generating a rapidly developing planetary society, fall heaviest on the working class and ecological crisis that threatens to engulf human the poor, and on populations in the periphery, civilization as we know it; a perfect storm of the system that generates such diseases in the catastrophe. This comes on top of a system of pursuit of quantitative wealth can be charged, accumulation that is divorced from any rational as Engels and the Chartists did in the nineteenth ordering of needs for the population century, with social murder. As the independent of the cash nexus. Accumulation revolutionary developments in epidemiology and the amassing of wealth in general are represented by One Health and Structural One increasingly dependent on the proliferation of Health have suggested, the etiology of the new COVID-19 has accentuated as never waste of all kinds. In the midst of this disaster, a pandemics can be traced to the overall problem b e f o r e t h e i n t e r l i n k e d e c o l o g i c a l , New Cold War and a growing likelihood of of ecological destruction brought on by epidemiological, and economic vulnerabilities thermonuclear destruction have emerged, with capitalism. imposed by capitalism. As the world enters the an increasingly unstable and aggressive United Here, the necessity of a “revolutionary third decade of the twenty-first century, we are States at the forefront. This has led the Bulletin reconstitution of society at large” rears its head seeing the emergence of catastrophe capitalism of Atomic Scientists to move its famous once again, as it has so many times in the past. as the structural crisis of the system takes on doomsday clock to 100 seconds to midnight, The logic of contemporary historical planetary dimensions. generations and all the closest to midnight since the clock started in development points to the need for a more living things. 1947. communal-commons-based system of social Since the late twentieth century, capitalist The COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of metabolic reproduction, one in which the globalisation has increasingly adopted the form increasing and more deadly pandemics is a associated producers rationally regulate their of interlinked commodity chains controlled by product of this same late-imperialist social metabolism with nature, so as to promote 2 of 16 19/03/21 JUS SEMPER NEWSLETTER free development of each as the basis of the free of Mother Earth is omnipresent in the ethnic instruments and means of production and development of all, while conserving energy worldviews shared by the peasantry. communication, the latter with a practically and the environment.