Archive for August, 2006
Legal Legitimacy and Characterization of Capitalism
As we’ve seen, capitalism is a bad law: an economic system that generates imperialist war forcible expropriation of the means of production of peoples, slavery and discriminatory exploitation of workers, and the deaths of millions of people from starvation, disease and violence. Capitalism creates the dissatisfaction of the political-institutional need people who have an economic system that produce and reproduce the life of human beings (the legal property of socialism as an economic system for life). An action that threatens the life and therefore legitimate, forces and urges the revolutionary government of Venezuela to legally intervene in political life. The criminal law against such interference may be creating new criminal offenses to pursue capitalism and crime (legal wrong).
The Declaration on the right and duty to promote and protect human rights recognizes that people in general, and Venezuela in particular, are entitled to fight for peace and international security for the reproduction of their lives. Objective content requires the realization of human rights as legal satisfactions of material needs of life. The people, in their persons, groups and institutions, has the right and the duty to realize the fulfillment of human rights at national and international levels. Is entitled to fight for the effective elimination of all violations of human rights violations particularly in relation to mass, flagrant or systematic as those resulting from all forms of colonialism, racial discrimination, domination or foreign occupation, aggression or threats national sovereignty, national unity or territorial integrity, and the refusal to recognize the right of peoples to self-determination and the right of all peoples to exercise full sovereignty over its wealth and natural resources. Regarding this last aspect, the sovereignty of peoples over their natural resources, the Resolution 1803 of the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1962, makes clear that the right of peoples to permanent sovereignty over its wealth and natural resources must be exercised in the interest of national development and welfare of the people of that State. More specifically, the international community provides the following obligations of States: Read the rest of this entry »