5.2.3. Globalisation and Deshumanisation
K Alors que notre civilisation démocratique, a
voulu promouvoir l'homme comme Sujet, le régne de l' K argent fou
», l'appat du gain immédiat et planétaire comme
finalité premiere de toute activité humaine, ne sont-ils pas en
passe de réifier l'individu a travers la marchandisation
dévorante de l'ensemble de la création ?Il s'agit
désormais en fait non seulement d'argent, de drogue, d'armes, (mais
aussi) d'êtres humains (leurs organes), d'muvres d'art, etc : K Tout ce
qui s'achéte et qui se vend va au plus offrant et traverse les
frontieres sans grand souci des contrôles. » Mais
l'efficacité de la lutte contre cette régression
généralisée n'oblige-t-elle pas a mettre au jour les
conditions de l'émergence de ce totalitarisme financier ? »
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This is the question that René Passet and Jean Liberman
invite us to answer. By "financial totalitarianism" we understand "financial
globalisation", "neoliberal globalisation" and "neoliberalism". Indeed, the
rationality behind the phenomenon of globalisation seems to relegate the human
person in the background. Man is no longer the first value; he is given any
importance only when he can generate profits and perhaps because his organs are
very expensive on the international market; if not, he seems to have no value,
no dignity at all and can be used as any other instrument to bring in money.
The planet and mankind are facing challenges and these
challenges are related to their very survival. It is the social question and
the growing income gap between rich and poor on all continents and countries,
generating situations of tension and violence: fundamentalism, nationalism,
racism and ethnic wars. There are growing inequalities between Southern
countries and Western countries in all fields.
5.2.3.1. Globalisation and Human Rights
At first glance, the neoliberal globalisation appears to have
had devastating effects on human rights. The new forms of imperial sovereignty
take their distance as compared to Nation-States in relation to the United
Nations based on the declaration of I948. Such a description would be largely
incomplete because globalisation, expression of a mutation of large-scale
capitalism, also brings about other rights since the redefinition and extension
of private property; but also, conversely, new subjects expressing new needs
and rights both public and private. The logic of universal human rights is
redefined. The content of fundamental rights such as freedom, equality, and
democracy
Subject, are the reign of "mad money", the lure of immediate
and global success as the first purpose of any human activity, not going to
reify the individual person through the devouring commercialization of all
creation? It is now not only money, drugs, weapons, but also human beings
(their organs), works of art, etc.: "All that is bought and sold goes to the
highest bidder and crosses borders with little concern for controls. But does
the effectiveness of the fight against this general regression not oblige us to
uncover the conditions for the emergence of this financial totalitarianism?I
has led to new frontlines and probably to the political
construction of these rights. This construction aims at exploring some of the
transformations of these rights and the expression of new subjects of law
inaugurates a crisis of the functionality of human rights to a globalisation
which is servant of the market and of capitalism.
Globalisation understood as an interdependence of peaceful
relations between nations, a growing interpenetration of their economies, a
homogenisation of values and modernisation, a tendency to establish democratic
regimes, appeared powerfully to establish human rights between I948 and I989.
The proclamation of the Universal Charter of Human Rights of I948 constituted
the foundation of the constitution of the United Nations.
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