Nuño Rodríguez (Spain) – speech at the Global Conference on Multipolarity (Es)
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Good afternoon! Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here with you, with the experts in geopolitics, with those who are interested in geopolitics, with those who understand geopolitics. After all, we need people to be interested in what is going on in this world. In theory, the unipolar world, led by the United States, will soon cease to exist. Their economic system rests on capitalism, financial capitalism, which has nothing to do with the original idea of economic liberalism that emerged in the 19th century. This philosophy, which originated in the 19th century, was justified because it implied individual freedom, a free market. Perhaps people were out of touch with the old monarchy because of the dire consequences of the mercantilist policies pursued by the authorities and poor relations with the aristocracy. Economic liberalism then had a very clear, pragmatic meaning for social dynamics. Today the capitalist system cannot be justified by anything; rather, it has turned into something that they are seeking to combat. It has turned into a system of oppression, a system of indebting, a system of plundering the natural resources of peoples who have not yet developed an economic system powerful enough resist capitalism.
[01:30]
However, it has long been said that capitalism is in decline, that it is becoming outdated and is about to cease to exist - this I would like to emphasize. I have always said that man can grow up guided by an idea or being in danger. In that sense, we are moving forward driven by the idea of a different model of the world - a model of a multipolar world in which there are different spheres of influence, different systems of government, different visions of what humanity can become. We are now subject to a brutal system of financial capitalism that wants to keep all of humanity indebted to it, to deprive humanity of everything. We have to keep in mind that the fall of capitalism has been predicted since the 19th century, but it hasn't happened. We have to understand why. The fact is that the financial market or the goods and services market is more dynamic than the one of ideas. The market is quicker to rebalance and come to equilibrium than the system of ideologies. Always the representatives of communism, socialism, anarchism, protectionism talked about the fall of capitalism that is inherent in the system of liberal economics, but all these systems have disappeared and the only thing left is
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is capitalism. We have to treat the dynamics of the market with caution. Even though it rebuilds much faster than ideas, we should be aware of the dangers this implies. Capitalism is evolving faster than the system of ideas to which we aspire. Time is playing against us. I would like to show you some slides so that you can have a realistic picture of the world in which you and I live. I don't like arrogance, rather I like to know exactly what I am going to do and what dangers I am going to face.
[03:41]
It is a system of underwater cables. When we talk about a unipolar world, we must understand that in fact only the Anglo-Saxons worked to create the ideology, the institutions of power, the world architecture, the world order. Sailing on wooden boats, we Spaniards mapped the world, while the Anglo-Saxons unified it in space and time. Every fraction of a second, endless streams of information sweep before us, entangling the planet. It is a unipolar world. It is a world in which all information systems, all banking transactions come to one center. All these streams flow into the United States, which gamifies information en masse and runs its cables to Asia, to Europe, with offshoots to other parts of the world.
[04:45]
This is a map of trade flows, this is the financial transactions that take place every day. The same thing is happening here. We have an epicenter, a hegemon. There is a certain amount of financial flows that come out of Africa and Europe and other parts of the world and go to one point. This is the unipolar world.
[05:06]
And this is the system of distribution of daily revenues among different countries. In other words, we can see how the world's wealth is distributed. Some goes to the United States, some to Europe, some to Asia, etc. It is clear to see that most of the countries of the world do not contribure to working out philosophies which are generating ideas to promote political systems, they do not participate in the creation of the world architecture and the institutions of power. Their populations are forced to extract raw materials to feed factories and markets located in other countries. These people are supposed to be needed in a unipolar world. We will have to find out from these people if they can offer any new philosophy, what ideas they have, suggestions about institutional development. Living in a multipolar world, we will have to keep an eye on all this. We have a theory, or let me rephrase: thanks to the great philosopher Alexander Dugin, we have an idea that should guide our and help feel the danger. We have to know this world by touch. That is, we must know what is going on in order to quickly promote the Idea
[06:35]
To confront the danger, we need to constantly engage working groups - working groups in the real world - as well as public relations. Through politics, finance, and the media we must ram our ideas home to the people, we must make suggestions about the structure of the financial system, and, furthermore, we must influence political systems. To do this we need permanent working groups in Russia. The double-headed eagle does an excellent, wonderful job of promoting culture, traditions, influencing policy, and protecting the country. Certainly, the world needs groups like the double-headed eagle, because if we want to create a multipolar world, we need different groups that would introduce us to different traditions, different worldviews. That would help us see the world and life from different angles. We need working groups. The double-headed eagle could be an example, or it could be the basis for other different national working groups. We should not forget that there are quite a few who would be against it. But if we want to move from the world of theory to the world of practice, we need people to form an operational system and a tactical system. Thank you very much for your attention. I hope that my words will
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practically resonate in some of those who listen to me, and we will be able to create national working groups that will put theory into practice. Thank you very much.
El complicado camino hacia la Multipolaridad