The Revolutionary Socialist Network, Workers
NC -- Ext -- Redistribution of Wealth
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2NC -- Ext -- Redistribution of WealthThe redistribution of wealth solves for inequality and other neoliberal crisesPadilla ’21 [Luis-Alberto; 2021; president of the board of the Guatemalan International Relations & Peace Research Institute (IRIPAZ), member of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), former Secretary General of the Latin American Council on Peace Research (CLAIP), Director of the Diplomatic Academy, Former Vice Minister, former ambassador in Chile, former permanent representative to the United Nations at the Vienna International Centre, former ambassador to Austria, former ambassador to the Russian Federation, former ambassador to the Netherlands, permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, and professor of the Seminar of World Geopolitics at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Catholic University Rafael Landivar (URL) of Guatemala; Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene, “Howard Richards,” Ch. 5.3.5, p. 235] SPark In summary, Richards’s Economy of Social Solidarity (ESS) coincides not just with views like those of Sousa Santos but also has parallels with technical and sophisticated macro-economic approaches, such as those of Varoufakis about the surpluses recycling mechanism that constitutes his key criterion to determine whether capitalism could be reformed. In the same manner that global-scale capitalism should be reformed to diminish inequality by sharing surpluses among the poor and establishing, for instance, a global tax on financial transactions (FTT) to finance the universal basic income advocated by Varoufakis, the ESS model deems that surplus recycling must take place at a local and community level. This is because it is in this physical location that economic surplus can be shared instead of accumulated for personal enrichment. Individuals who hoard their surplus cease to be responsible members of the community - or society - becoming rentiers, as Piketty similarly says in his critical historical analysis of the huge concentration of wealth and inequalities of twenty-first-century capitalism. Richards’s views could also be compared with those of Morin (2011), who, in an interesting book about ‘humankind policies’, refers to the cooperative movement, micro loans, fair trade, demography, indigenous peoples, water, and environmental experiences in different countries, including France (Morin 2011). Download 2.09 Mb. Share with your friends:
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