10/31/2020 18:15
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 10/31/2020 6:15 PM
"
When we fight, we fight for money
. When we are going to make a quilombo now, it is to get money, it is not to make the revolution."
Juan Grabois's phrase is repeated in hundreds of tweets with a fragment of a video that went viral on social networks.
That message put him once again at the center of controversy, just hours after he led the occupation of the
Etchevehere
family's field
in Entre Ríos
from a distance
.
The video is not current, but from 2018, and was recorded during a workshop on social and popular economy that Grabois attended.
Two years later, and consulted by
Clarín,
the social leader explained his statement by pointing out that "
the struggle of the poor is an economic and not a political struggle
."
Juan Grabois during the march while continuing the occupation of the Etchevehere camp.
Photo Germán García Adrasti.
In that debate together with other social leaders, which was part of a series of activities that questioned the World Trade Organization (WTO), Grabois pointed out the economic and security problems that caused the productive system to be unable to "absorb a 20 or 30% of those excluded. "
"Especially in Western countries, the excluded somehow fight for subsidies, things, etc., that you have to get them out of the profit rate of high-profitability companies. I mean, here I think there is more to put it is the capital to support our comrades, because when we fight, we fight for money, when we are going to make a quilombo now it is to get money, it is not to make the revolution, "said the referent of the Artigas project.
And he added: "That money comes from somewhere, the State puts it in, and the State takes it from someone. Well, they take it out of taxes, yes, it's true, but in the long run there is a profit."
After the viralization of this video clip, when consulted by Clarín, Grabois ratified his words: "The struggle of the poor is fundamentally an economic struggle and not a political struggle; it is fought for social wages, land, shelter and work,
it is fighting for economic resources not for a change in the system. "
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