Everyone talks of the Berlin Wall when met, today, twenty years after its fall. It talks about the end of an era, which is true. Since 1961 and for nearly twenty-eight, that barrier was one of the most tangible symbols of the Iron Curtain that separated two worlds, two radically different ways of understanding human beings in their social, political and economic one hand, bloated capitalism unleashed market, the hegemonic Anglo-American model, and the extreme neo-liberalism that came into vogue in the eighties, on the other, which is repeatedly called "real socialism", a macro totalizing individual suppressor , spent on his effort done against an opponent that grows as a colony of saprophytes.
In the months following the collapse of the wall, the Soviet Union disintegrated. The bloc allies felt from the first moment the power vacuum left by this giant. Old Soviet republics remain impoverished. The Mafia thrives where the state withdrew. Yugoslavia becomes a powder keg. The economies of all countries that formerly belonged to the Warsaw Pact suffer dramatic reconfigurations. The Anglo-Saxon bourgeois, watching all this with a triumphant air, smiles and tries to convince the world pompously that history ended. Others say simply that naive ideologies are gone. The little round planet is more than ever, even, apparently unipolar, tranquil, a fertile field awaiting the joyful western sow the seed of free trade and democracy (the only acceptable way of government) in all corners of the Earth. The youths are left to reap the images sink legacy for generations of Thatcher, Reagan and Friedman.
With the fall of the wall did not disappear global tension that existed during the Cold War, but moved to other areas, became more diffuse and extensive. Our world is much more unstable than before the wall. Armed conflict in a horrendous brutality have taken place every year around the globe. Ultra nationalism reemerged in several countries, and with it the reactionary xenophobia against new waves of immigrants. Aboriginal peoples continue to be abused for the convenience of the big companies get all of the countries lap. Conservative ideologies based on superstition (organized religion) renewed energy and regain influence. Meanwhile, global capitalism again show its essential characteristic is the crisis, a consequence of their wild nature, alienating, deceitful and supported by contradiction and impending disaster, kicking ahead, transferable to those who sell their labor, those who have always paid the cost of the maldistribution of wealth. The amoeba capitalist, fearful and conscious of their crimes, spread the world with his paranoia. The holding company is perfect for early detection of the internal enemy, the terrorist, to different women (who rebels against despotism phallic), the non-hetero, the abnormal, which is not square with the Empire.
With the fall of the wall, however, fell not Marxism, not least the pursuit of human utopia, a society more just, tolerant and fraternal. Socialist experiences as the Soviet, China, that of a Cuba that resists or an anachronistic North Korea, having made tremendous achievements made mistakes and disastrous, were or are alternatives that do not represent at all the whole range of possibilities of socialism , as appropriate thunders the reductionism of capitalist discourse. He did not fall the ideal of a different reality. The world is not unipolar, but an amalgam of countless forms. The proletariat has not ceased to exist, let alone no longer be exploited, by the fact that the average worker wear collar and tie. As Hobsbawm notes, "human affairs, among which include the economy, are too important to be left to market forces." Struggles have not finished much the mass culture, the reality shows and images silicone tell us otherwise.
parts of the wall are preserved in the same way that memory is kept alive in us.
