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CATASTROIKA with English subtitles.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RORPpF...
English & Bulgarian subtitles available. German, French, Spanish will be added soon.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqeh...
Αν με το DEBTOCRACY είδαμε την κορυφή του παγόβουνου με το δεύτερο ντοκιμαντέρ των ΑΡΗ ΧΑΤΖΗΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΥ ΚΑΤΕΡΙΝΑ ΚΙΤΙΔΗ CATASTROIKA θα μπούμε σε πιο βαθιά νερά.....
English & Bulgarian subtitles available. German, French, Spanish will be added soon.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqeh...
Αν με το DEBTOCRACY είδαμε την κορυφή του παγόβουνου με το δεύτερο ντοκιμαντέρ των ΑΡΗ ΧΑΤΖΗΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΥ ΚΑΤΕΡΙΝΑ ΚΙΤΙΔΗ CATASTROIKA θα μπούμε σε πιο βαθιά νερά.....
Ήταν αρχές του 1989 όταν ο Γάλλος ακαδημαϊκός Ζακ Ρουπνίκ κάθισε μπροστά στον υπολογιστή του προκειμένου να ετοιμάσει μια έκθεση για την πορεία των τελευταίων οικονομικών μεταρρυθμίσεων στη Σοβιετική Ένωση του Μιχαήλ Γκορμπατσόφ. Και ο όρος που σκαρφίστηκε για να περιγράψει τον επιθανάτιο ρόγχο μιας αυτοκρατορίας άκουγε τότε στο όνομα Καταστρόικα. Στα χρόνια του προέδρου Γιέλτσιν, όταν η Ρωσία πραγματοποιούσε ίσως το μεγαλύτερο και πιο αποτυχημένο πείραμα ιδιωτικοποιήσεων στην ιστορία της ανθρωπότητας, δημοσιογράφοι του Γκάρντιαν έδωσαν άλλο νόημα στον όρο του Ρουπνίκ. Η καταστρόικα έγινε συνώνυμο της ολοκληρωτικής διάλυσης μιας χώρας από τις δυνάμεις της αγοράς, του ξεπουλήματος της δημόσιας περιουσίας και της ραγδαίας επιδείνωσης του βιοτικού επιπέδου των πολιτών της. Μονάδα μέτρησης της Καταστρόικα ήταν πλέον η ανεργία, η κοινωνική εξαθλίωση, η μείωση του προσδόκιμου ζωής αλλά και η δημιουργία μιας νέας κάστας ολιγαρχών που αναλαμβάνει την εξουσία της χώρας. Λίγα χρόνια αργότερα η αντίστοιχη επιχείρηση μαζικών ιδιωτικοποιήσεων στην ενοποιημένη Γερμανία, που σήμερα παρουσιάζεται ως πρότυπο για την Ελλάδα, δημιούργησε εκατομμύρια ανέργους και ορισμένα από τα μεγαλύτερα σκάνδαλα διαφθοράς στην ευρωπαϊκή ιστορία.
Αυτή ακριβώς η καταστρόικα έρχεται τώρα και στην Ελλάδα, την «τελευταία σοβιετική δημοκρατία της Ευρώπης», όπως αρέσκονται να την χαρακτηρίζουν οι βουλευτές και οι υπουργοί της «σοσιαλιστικής» μας κυβέρνησης. Είναι η λογική συνέπεια και συνέχεια της «χρεοκρατίας» και ως εκ τούτου η λογική συνέχεια του πρώτου μας ντοκιμαντέρ που αναζητούσε τις αιτίες που δημιούργησαν την κρίση χρέους στην Ελλάδα και ολόκληρη την ευρωπαϊκή περιφέρεια.
Η Καταστρόικα όμως δεν είναι μια ασθένεια που χτυπά μόνο όσες χώρες αλλάζουν ριζικά το οικονομικό τους σύστημα, όπως η Ρωσία, ούτε χώρες που τελούν υπό άτυπη οικονομική κατοχή. Ίσως μάλιστα οι πιο αποτυχημένες μορφές ιδιωτικοποιήσεων να συνέβησαν σε οικονομικές υπερδυνάμεις που θεωρητικά είχαν την οικονομική ισχύ να ελέγξουν τις αρνητικές επιπτώσεις.
ΣΥΝΤΕΛΕΣΤΕΣ
Σενάριο/Σκηνοθεσία: Άρης Χατζηστεφάνου, Κατερίνα Κιτίδη
Επιστημονική επιμέλεια: Λεωνίδας Βατικιώτης
Υπεύθυνος παραγωγής: Θάνος Τσάντας Μοντάζ: Αρης Τριανταφύλλου
Μουσική: Active Member, Ερμής Γεωργιάδης
Συντελεστές: Ιουλία Κιλέρη, Μαργαρίτα Τσώμου, Βάγια Πάντου, Χρήστος Τσικνιάς, Γρανέτα Καρατζά, Κώστας Εφήμερος
Παραγωγή: Infowar Productions
περισσότερα εδώ...http://www.catastroika.com/
Κατηγορία:
Άδεια
Τυπική άδεια YouTube
Catastroika is a crowdfunded documentary under creative commons license.
It was at the beginning of 1989 when the French academic Jacques Rupnik sat at his desk, in order to prepare a report on the state of the economic reforms in Mikhail Gorbatsov's Soviet Union. The term that he used in describing the death rattle of the empire was "Catastroika". In Yeltsin's time, when Russia instituted maybe the biggest and least successful privatization experiment in the history of humanity, a group of Guardian reports assigned a different meaning to Rupnik's term. "Catastroika" became synonym of the country's complete destruction by market forces; the sell off of public property; and the steep deterioration of citizens' living standards. Now, Catastroika's unit of measurement was unemployment, social impoverishment, declining life expectancy, as well as the creation of a new cast of oligarchs, who took over the country's reins. A few years later, a similar effort to massively privatize public property in unified Germany (which is presented as a model for Greece) created millions of unemployed and some of the biggest scandals in European history.
It is this "Catastroika" that is coming soon to Greece; to "Europe's last Soviet Republic" as the MPs and the ministers of its former "socialist" government liked to call it. Catastroika is the logical aftermath and continuation of "Debtocracy". Therefore, the logical sequence of our first documentary, which examined the causes of the debt crisis in Greece and the European periphery as a whole.
Nevertheless, Catastroika is a virus that attacks not only the countries that radically change their economic system (like Russia) or countries under financial occupation. In fact, maybe the most unsuccessful privatization examples occur in financial superpowers that theoretically have the financial strength to control their negative consequences.
Catastroika can be spotted in post-Thatcherite Britain, where citizens were killed in accidents at the privatized rail network. It can be detected in the Dutch privatized and liberalized postal sector, where thousands of jobs have been cut and mail arrives at one's door two to
three times per day. It can be detected even in California, which left her citizens in the dark when it deregulated the energy market.
However, its consequences are the gravest and most frightening at countries which fell in the trap of foreign lenders and are obliged to proceed to mass privatization. The public property sell-off which takes place in Greece has been tried several times in similar circumstances. The same people, who undertook the selling of public utilities in Latin American countries, now have moved their office in countries of the European periphery --and the most competent among them have been travelling to Athens during the last months.
The procedure always follows exactly the same steps: In the beginning, the government, in collaboration with mass media, starts a forceful attack against public servants, who are presented as responsible for all the country's financial woes. The myth of the overextended public sector is often based on manipulated data from organizations supported and supporting the government of the time. Concurrently, specific public organizations are deliberately left unsupported, exasperating citizens due to their inefficiency. The process is completed by the sell-off of even the most profitable public organizations at a fraction of their real value.
Catastroika's team travelled in many countries, collecting images, information and material on deregulation and privatization programs that have been implemented at the so-called "developed" world. The final result of the research is never black or white. The divide between the "social character" of the public sector vis-à-vis the inhumane face of the free market is equally simplistic as the theories of Milton Freedman that professed the need to privatize even the air that we breathe. The Greek case however supersedes the simple theoretical discussion on the role of the country in the economy.
Once more, the documentary is distributed online under creative commons licence. The free circulation of Catastroika is not just an "obligation" to our co-producers. It is our deeper and ideological belief that each product of intellectual creation should be freely available to all. The current financial system, while based all the more on the production and management of information, is incapable by its nature to find a way to secure the remuneration of information creators. This is probably one of many dead-ends in the development of the economy's productive forces, which may soon threaten the bases of the current financial system. Because, as it is well known, every system that stopped the development of the productive forces fell apart -- and you can ask the feudalists about that...
It was at the beginning of 1989 when the French academic Jacques Rupnik sat at his desk, in order to prepare a report on the state of the economic reforms in Mikhail Gorbatsov's Soviet Union. The term that he used in describing the death rattle of the empire was "Catastroika". In Yeltsin's time, when Russia instituted maybe the biggest and least successful privatization experiment in the history of humanity, a group of Guardian reports assigned a different meaning to Rupnik's term. "Catastroika" became synonym of the country's complete destruction by market forces; the sell off of public property; and the steep deterioration of citizens' living standards. Now, Catastroika's unit of measurement was unemployment, social impoverishment, declining life expectancy, as well as the creation of a new cast of oligarchs, who took over the country's reins. A few years later, a similar effort to massively privatize public property in unified Germany (which is presented as a model for Greece) created millions of unemployed and some of the biggest scandals in European history.
It is this "Catastroika" that is coming soon to Greece; to "Europe's last Soviet Republic" as the MPs and the ministers of its former "socialist" government liked to call it. Catastroika is the logical aftermath and continuation of "Debtocracy". Therefore, the logical sequence of our first documentary, which examined the causes of the debt crisis in Greece and the European periphery as a whole.
Nevertheless, Catastroika is a virus that attacks not only the countries that radically change their economic system (like Russia) or countries under financial occupation. In fact, maybe the most unsuccessful privatization examples occur in financial superpowers that theoretically have the financial strength to control their negative consequences.
Catastroika can be spotted in post-Thatcherite Britain, where citizens were killed in accidents at the privatized rail network. It can be detected in the Dutch privatized and liberalized postal sector, where thousands of jobs have been cut and mail arrives at one's door two to
three times per day. It can be detected even in California, which left her citizens in the dark when it deregulated the energy market.
However, its consequences are the gravest and most frightening at countries which fell in the trap of foreign lenders and are obliged to proceed to mass privatization. The public property sell-off which takes place in Greece has been tried several times in similar circumstances. The same people, who undertook the selling of public utilities in Latin American countries, now have moved their office in countries of the European periphery --and the most competent among them have been travelling to Athens during the last months.
The procedure always follows exactly the same steps: In the beginning, the government, in collaboration with mass media, starts a forceful attack against public servants, who are presented as responsible for all the country's financial woes. The myth of the overextended public sector is often based on manipulated data from organizations supported and supporting the government of the time. Concurrently, specific public organizations are deliberately left unsupported, exasperating citizens due to their inefficiency. The process is completed by the sell-off of even the most profitable public organizations at a fraction of their real value.
Catastroika's team travelled in many countries, collecting images, information and material on deregulation and privatization programs that have been implemented at the so-called "developed" world. The final result of the research is never black or white. The divide between the "social character" of the public sector vis-à-vis the inhumane face of the free market is equally simplistic as the theories of Milton Freedman that professed the need to privatize even the air that we breathe. The Greek case however supersedes the simple theoretical discussion on the role of the country in the economy.
Once more, the documentary is distributed online under creative commons licence. The free circulation of Catastroika is not just an "obligation" to our co-producers. It is our deeper and ideological belief that each product of intellectual creation should be freely available to all. The current financial system, while based all the more on the production and management of information, is incapable by its nature to find a way to secure the remuneration of information creators. This is probably one of many dead-ends in the development of the economy's productive forces, which may soon threaten the bases of the current financial system. Because, as it is well known, every system that stopped the development of the productive forces fell apart -- and you can ask the feudalists about that...
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