The leader of the Frente Amplio criticized the Argentine president’s speech and warned that he fell “into the abyss of fanaticism.”
The former president of Uruguay José Mujica criticized the speech of the current Argentine president, Javier Milei, in it Davos World Economic Forum: “This man will have the success that history marks for him, he will be a tragic cartoon character,” said the left-wing leader.
The intervention of the president of Argentina in Davos It generated all kinds of repercussions, although many were surprise and even rejection even among world leaders and businessmen who were eagerly waiting to hear from the new president, who defines himself as liberal-libertarian. Certainly, his statements against socialism, the State, climate change and feminism were not well received in a variety of sectors, and even the president of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, he weighed in against it during his own speech at the forum.
Mujica He was also one of those who referred to the speech of Milei and, as he has done on previous occasions, he harshly criticized the Argentine president. According to the former president, “this claim that others have defects and that we have all the virtues is not only nonsense, it is an denial of reality”. “We need a market, we need regulation, unfortunately we need the State because we are becoming a jungle. And if the State has defects, let’s fight to improve it, but let’s not be left out in the open,” she considered in her column on the Argentine program Mañana Sylvestre, on Radio 10, in relation to the statement by the leader of Freedom Advances about what West is turning towards socialism and the collectivism.
“It seems to me that we must learn that living is walking and drawing conclusions. This man will have the success that history marks for him, he will be a tragic cartoon character, it seems to me,” stated the leader of the Broad Front, which also questioned the denial of the climate crisis by Milei, one of the topics that was even part of the Davos agenda.
“What has been predicted for more than 30 years by conclaves of scientists who have dedicated their lives to this and which has inexorably come to fruition is being ignored,” he said. Mujica, who continued to question Milei: “Deny the evidence. To what extreme can one go in an average intelligence when one falls into the abyss of fanaticism? It’s honestly like a caricature of human thought. I hope we can wake up. I hope it is possible to wake up.”
That Milei calls himself a “libertarian” is a “linguistic tragedy”
The former president also questioned the use of the category “libertarian” for the unrestricted defense of the market, and pointed out that “they changed the entire meaning of the word” and that “they have messed up the entire language.” “They call themselves libertarians and they defend capitalism without brakes, without any regulation or anything like that. It is as if the tendency to concentration did not exist and monopolies”, he pointed out.
According to Mujica, His beginnings in militancy were in University Reform Group, which had libertarian inspiration. “The boys older than me who ran that group defined themselves as libertarians, they promoted social work in cooperatives, they were in favor of the State, of capitalism, of the exploitation of man, and they dreamed of a society based on self-managed people” , contrasted and added that “they were anti-state but fiercely anti-capitalist.”
“I think that what they call ‘libertarians’ should be called ‘liberism’ because it is prior to liberalism, because it leaves behind the best contributions that authentically liberal thought made in some times, such as Adam Smith, who defended private initiative but drew attention to the conspiracies that the paternal world frequently made, already in their time, to improve the rate of profit,” he noted.
Finally, Mujica He emphasized that “we, the workers, are not parasites, we do not live at the expense of others.”
Source: Ambito
