2023-07-28 06:50:55
What is an interbourgeois crisis?
One of the basic lessons that the working class must learn is to maintain its political independence. Sometimes the working class takes sides in what Marxism calls: inter-bourgeois crises, that is, the acute political struggle between different sectors of the bourgeoisie.
By PT – Costa Rica
In times of capitalist crisis, the weight of the crisis tends to be shifted to the common people, but sometimes the crisis is so intense that entire sectors of the bourgeoisie are sacrificed. Costa Rica is experiencing a crisis of this type, imperialist looting, debt chains, predatory extractivism have increased and therefore the different sectors of the bourgeoisie fight among themselves for control of the State and the institutions.
The battle for control of the government and the State is essential because it allows new businesses to be guaranteed (concessions, subsidies, etc.) and also allows the State and its institutions (police, judges, prosecutors, etc.) to be used against political enemies. That is the picture that the country is experiencing and explains the high-sounding confrontations between Rodrigo Chaves, on the one hand, and the Nación SA group and Leonel Baruch, the banking and communication magnate, on the other.
What do the bourgeois agree on?
The different bourgeois factions can have sharp confrontations, but they will never change the fundamentals of the capitalist system: for example, the exploitation of labor, the private ownership of the means of production or the existence of a class state.
Every day in the press we read confrontations between the government and La Nación SA or Leonel Baruch, however, both agree on fundamental elements, such as maintaining the country’s subordination to international financial organizations, continuing to pay the IMF and the Bank on time World. They also agree to increase the exploitation of the working class by approving the 4×3 days where the PLN, the PLP, the PUSC, the New Republic and the government are in complete agreement.
What do they disagree on?
The country’s elites are at odds to see who gets the “Lion’s share” and who “pays for the piper”. For example, they are at odds over monetary policy, the government wants to maintain an artificially appreciated colon and more and more sectors of the bourgeoisie believe that this policy must change because it penalizes them.[1]. There is also a confrontation with conventional economists over employment policies. Regime economists such as Gerardo Corrales have denounced their impression that the government promotes or allows the underground economy to pass.
The confrontation with Leonel Baruch, millionaire owner of CR Hoy and the BCT is linked to a political and economic confrontation. The BCT refused to buy political debt from Progreso Social Democrático, later, already in the Chaves government, he used the Ministry of Finance to accuse Baruch of tax fraud.
The confrontation with La Nación SA and CR Hoy is because the government has a policy of building its own business group where rice importers, bus drivers, port concessionaires, a private banking sector stand out, and it also wants to have its own business fraction of communication, for this reason it has concentrated all the government advertising schedule (8 billion colones) in a SINART agency (Channel 13) and from there it promotes and supports the communication media that are loyal or favorable to it.
To do?
The working class cannot side with the government, even though they have many reasons to find the PLN, Baruch and La Nación SA despicable, and the same goes for the other side, joining the camp of the opposition bourgeoisie because the government is ” conservative” and “populist”. The working class must maintain its own independent agenda with its own approaches that include a radical tax reform so that the rich pay like the rich, but also an effective democratization of the media so that it is controlled by the unions and popular organizations.
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