Of course, despite some comments, Néstor Kirchner's death was not something that happened like that. Here, another interpretation about what happened. In this case, the writer at a young political scientist.
KIRCHNER tattoo
Paul Pizzorno
October 28, 2010.
1. was 18 when Néstor Kirchner took office in 2003 and his death shocked me, like everyone, yesterday at 26. I belong to a generation that entered politics almost at the same time as his figure began to grab the center stage and, since then, it was like the thrust of any debate. To attack or defend, even to attempt to transcend it, we never stop to discuss about Kirchner.
2. His historical legacy is the revival of politics as a vocation processing. Facing the nineties conception of politics as an appendix of the market as mere administration of the given, Kirchner restored the notion of the will. This was erected to himself as the great tamer of Fortune, as a virtuous leader who kicked the board of fantasy and fetish technocratic institutionalism.
3. Along the way, favored the pragmatism of the old manuals and abused Peronism the bricks of dung. Even when confronted and defeated the old structures of his party, decided to regroup under his leadership. Early under the shade of the renovation and began to surround himself with traitors who, predictably, did what they do best. Some betrayed in life and others will, almost certainly from now.
4. understood that the final withdrawal of conservative governance structures had put a roof lead the process. We said as long discussion about it, that PJ was not a neutral instrument that could be shaped for different purposes, but hid a capitulation announced. Yet in the last years of his life stressed the old structures and PJ took some time before the absolute limits, though not free from crevices that opened a question about their future. In all cases, the figure, along with Cristina, was always at the forefront of the process, setting the agenda and choosing the battles, well ahead of its base of support.
5. Like a boxer who threw his best shots against the ropes, Kirchner luminous moments after their defeats were tough, at least in recent times. Surprised capable of transgression, doubling bet in situations where it is customary negotiated surrender, and found there reconquest of political recomposition and adverse wills. It was, however, unresolved crossroads for that pipe dream that we call popular field where various interpretations of the Kirchner lived as privileged expressions of rupture or of continuity with the neoliberal consensus of 90, which was the consensus on inequality. The truth, like it or not, is that Kirchner played both.
6. Someone said, probably correctly, that the best of Kirchner were their enemies. In line with the re-politicization, visible as anyone in recent times conduct factor of power in Argentina. It was not always to fight and several of them maintained an oscillating (with others, it is also true, never fought), but was instrumental in opening cracks in the post-neoliberal hegemony. Thanks to the reaction of their enemies, we learned how behind the liberal-republican phraseology hides and hide whenever a speech defending certain privileges. Ever granted, even in moments of utter confusion, which outline overcoming the Baldwin Brothers built on that foundation.
7. Néstor Kirchner died yesterday. Just minutes after his death, Argentine stocks soared on the NYSE on a day of euphoria to the markets. At the same time, the rapid typing of the editorial page of Clarin and La Nacion joined in the complaint to the President for the impending change of government direction. In Plaza de Mayo, a grieving crowd began to fire. Among their ranks were outstanding young people, perhaps representatives of a generation that grew, matured and was organized around the inevitable debate on Kirchner. A generation that will take you etched forever as a legacy of permanent tension, as a constituent and indelible mark. As a tattoo.
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