He judge of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation Alejandro Slokar He referred to the federal march in defense of public education and questioned the Government of Javier Milei. “By attacking the university they attack the middle class. Also the popular sectors, which were those vindicated with the creation of more than 60 national universities and 17 of them in the province of Buenos Aires,” he said.
Slokar maintained that the mobilization was “against helplessness.” “Citizens tried to express themselves against the discard project that lies behind this chainsaw attempt,” he said. In addition, the judge denounced that the Government’s decision is part of its “social Darwinism” project. “What is being discussed In short, it is inclusion or exclusion,” he remarked in statements to Radio Perfil.
Alejandro Slokar is a judge of the Federal Court of Criminal Cassation and a professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He was one of the founders of the Legitimate Justice Association and co-author of the Criminal Law Manual with Eugenio Zaffaroni and Alejandro Alagia.
“We must take into consideration the symbolic field of the document that was read and its conclusions, which synthesize the march and the cry in the street. The Argentine public university synthesizes the aspirational, upward social mobility and the family project of ‘My son the doctor’. There is a very interesting study by Daniel Schteingart that analyzes that 68% of students do not have parents who have gone to university, and that number exceeds 90% in the Buenos Aires suburbs,” said the judge.
Slokar expressed: “Citizens tried to express themselves against the exclusionary model, or the discarding project that lies behind this chainsaw attempt regarding the public in general and education in particular. The mobilization is against helplessness of those who do not want to resign themselves to being nobody.” And he added that “inclusion or exclusion” is discussed; a project of progress or regression in the realization of rights”.
Likewise, the magistrate recalled his personal history, as the son of immigrants. “Together with my sister, I am the first generation of professionals.” “There seems to be a lack of concern for the representation of the middle class, while assistance to the lower classes has increased above inflation, and with the RIGI and the highest sectors are responded to with tax reductions. LThe university is a signifier of the middle class, and it is being attacked…”, said Slokar.
In another order, he said that the Government embodies “a project of social Darwinism.” “There is a remnant that must be discarded. That impacts the middle class, but clearly intends to exclude a very large percentage of the population,” he said. In that sense, he added that “it is understandable that, from the exclusion model, they complain about the existence of too many public and free universities, and consider them a useless expense.”
Finally, Slokar concluded: “If they were really those who wanted the development of capital for Argentina to grow, they would never consider spending on universities useless. TAll productive capital requires a technical and well-prepared human elementand universities are an investment for development”.
Source: Ambito
