Capitalism is the economic-social regime whose purpose is to increase capital to the detriment of the labor force (capital vs. labor). This regime is part of a much more complex social structure of the socio-historical-cultural system (materialist, authoritarian, predatory, pragmatic, patriarchal and other forms of domination or destruction).

In a capitalist society, the historical economic basis of this regime is private ownership of the means of production and the exploitation of workers, generating in this dynamic two main classes, which are the big bourgeoisie, owners of large speculative capital, and the salaried and independent/precarious/self-employed workers/small business owners.

The big bourgeoisie owns the main means of production in industry, the economy, the financial sphere, transport, the media, as well as the land and subsoil.

The upper stratum of big capital is not numerous, but it has enormous industrial and financial potential and dominates the powers of the national states that are subordinated to its interests in directing their internal and external policies, imposing its will on the whole of society supported by the means of dissemination that it owns. On an international scale, in different countries, it forms networks of corporations, banks and financial institutions that divide the world into zones of its influence.

Capitalism acts as a brake on the path to the humanization of social life, in its unbridled logic of accumulation of wealth and power, it unfolds the strategy developed over centuries of exercising violence in all its forms, including physical violence that takes the form of: military invasions and/or promotion of civil wars between states in territories far from their own borders, the objective of which is to plunder the wealth of their natural resources.

Currently, the economic power factor that decisively predominates is speculative financial capital, the main current accumulator of resources and the nucleus of real power behind formal power.

Real capital, that of the means of production that generate goods and services, remained in the hands of speculative financial capital.

Capitalism is, in short, the exercise of commodification, alienation and oppression of a small minority over the great majorities in all aspects of life.

HUMANISM AS AN OPTION

The humanist option is nonviolent revolution.

The purpose of humanism is presented as a project of a non-violent revolutionary way out for all humanity, an intentional and hopeful way out, in contrast to the capitalist system characterized by disorganization, chaos and violence. A humanizing way out of the crisis of the world civilizing system that puts the very existence of the human species at risk. Therefore, it is appropriate to name universalist humanism by citing its fundamental ideals and proposals that are formalized in the following six points (expressed by Silo):

1. Promotes placing the human being as a central value and concern, in such a way that nothing is above the human being, nor is one human being above another.

2. It affirms the equality of all people and works to overcome the simple formality of equal rights, moving towards a world of equal opportunities for all.

3. Recognizes personal and cultural diversity, affirming the characteristics of each people and condemning all discrimination based on economic, racial, ethnic and cultural differences.

4. Promotes the tendency to develop knowledge above the limitations imposed on thought by prejudices accepted as absolute or immutable truths.

5. Affirms the freedom of ideas and beliefs.

6. Rejects not only physical forms of violence, but all other forms of violence: economic, racial, sexual, religious, moral and psychological, as everyday cases rooted in all regions of the world.

We are proposing a social revolution that will drastically change the living conditions of the people, a political revolution that will modify the structure of power. A social revolution that involves the seizure of political power to carry out the transformations of the case, but the seizure of this power is not an objective in itself.

The non-violent revolution implies the destructuring of central power in such a way that regional entities form a federative republic and that the power of these regions is also decentralized in favor of the Community base from which all electoral representation must come.

Likewise, if health and education are treated unequally for the inhabitants of a country, the nonviolent revolution implies free education and health for all, because, ultimately, these are the two highest values of the revolution and must replace the paradigm of the current society given by wealth and power. By placing everything in the function of health and education, the very complex economic and technological problems of today’s society will have the correct framework for their treatment.

We are now in a vital emergency to change the course of events. Will we lead to total disaster and the disappearance of the human species, or will we rebel against the established order and begin a path towards a more dignified future? Should we ask ourselves how we want to live and what we are willing to do to make that happen, or will we continue to suffer, subjected to a system that has failed?

The absurd and destructive stage we are living in does not require gradual changes that hide the need to revive the current system of oppression, but this historical moment needs a series of “exemplary actions and demonstrative effects” energetic enough to produce a general inflection of the process, to produce a non-violent Humanist revolution that will allow us to overcome chaos and destruction and enter into the true and warm human history. The history of the Universal Human Nation.

The Universal Human Nation is our deep aspiration that we intend to transform into the construction project of the peoples, because there is still a future for this purpose, and it depends in the broadest sense of the word, on the “Union of all humanists in the world”.

Ideological function of the Promoter Team

January 2025