Newscriticism: "Argentina labor unions' 24-hour strike against President Milei paralyzes daily life" (Star Tribune, May 9th, 2024)

[From Star Tribune's article.]

SUMMARY

Argentina's largest trade unions staged a massive general strike against President Javier Milei's libertarian government, protesting his austerity measures and deregulation policies. The strike paralyzed transportation services, resulting in canceled flights, halted bus, rail, and subway lines, and widespread closure of businesses and state agencies. Milei's administration, since coming to power in December, has implemented harsh austerity measures, including spending cuts, layoffs, and freezing public works projects, in an effort to address Argentina's severe financial crisis, exacerbated by soaring inflation rates approaching 300%.

The strike, the second since Milei's presidency began, reflects escalating tensions between his government and powerful unions, traditionally aligned with Argentina's left-leaning Peronist parties. Union leaders argue that Milei's policies disproportionately affect the poor and middle classes, while the government accuses them of trying to regain political power through disruptive actions. The conflict, characterized as both a social and political struggle, underscores the deep divisions within Argentine society and the challenges facing Milei's administration in navigating the country's economic crisis amidst widespread opposition.

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NEWSCRITICISM

When a Civilization attempts to change its politics, chances are there will always be a society that divides itself into two: those who support it, and those who do not. This basic dialectic of a Civilization's existence happens to be a common happenstance in Civilizations that implement certain changes to its Five Pillars (see my book 'Essays on Civilization' for more discussion about the phenomena of change in a Civilization). The changes felt can, by randomness of the response depending on the weight and gravity of the situation's experience and its existecne, be either peaceful, or not (or both).

This phenomena is, of course, natural; this example in Argentina is a manifestation of it. It has experienced numerous societal and civilizational experience during most of its existence, each attempting to adopt certain ideals to suit the new existential worldview of Argentina at that time - and there is nothing short of opposition in each of these historical governments that have gone and past through for most of its existence.

Nevertheless, these kinds of opposition in Argentina is never new; it becomes new today because, as a result of Javier Millei's policies of turning (by its first actions) from a Peronist State-Society (Peronist Argentine Civilization) to a Anarcho-Capitalist-Society applied and evolved in Argentine Conditions (the AnCap Argentine Civilization), it was a unique response to the new form of society and civilization - hence why these opposition protests were so different in reaction compared to previous oppositional protest in Argentina througout its history.

We are still waiting to see the process of its evolution from a Statist-Society to a Anarchic-Society; an Anarcho-Capitalist Argentine Civilization; we will watch, and keep watch, over the new unfolding of history in Argentina.

Joshua Kyle T. Rovero

Estado Rovero

May 10th 2024