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[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 268



*A BRIEF INQUIRY INTO MARKETS, CAPITALISM, GLOBALIZATION, CORPORATIONS AND
HUMAN RIGHTS.*

-Liberalism defends the interests of the intellectual elite; conservatism
defends the interests of the financial and industrial elite. The question
is: Who defends the interests of human rights? (…and are we a minority or a
majority?).

Spoiled by its iniquitous economic success, the Western world has become
arrogant. The arrogant victory of financial markets (with all its excesses)
has been possible due to the fact that, under the law of the jungle, markets
have really fallen in the hands of the mightiest as they sow segregation,
discrimination and violence the world over; the ensuing ‘casino economy’ has
ended up taking its own excesses to their last consequences…. immorally and
to the detriment of human rights. Ergo, considering the free market as a
final response to the-major-social-questions-of-our-day-and-age is a
dangerous fallacy.
In Capitalism, the market is the great moralizing medium. Its guns smartly
shoot on our unconscious. Since we live in consumer societies, do not be
fooled by this: we are treated as objects.

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Claudio
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