GLOBAL ORDER AND ACCUMULATION BY DISPOSSESSION IN ARGENTINA (1990-2012)

Global order is currently synonymous with absolute rationality that operates redesigning territories and places based on capital interests, through what Karl Marx called "original or primitive accumulation" and what David Harvey calls "accumulation by dispossession". In this paper, we analyse the situation in Argentina during the period 1990-2012, in light of that system of ideas, through the use of five case studies: privatisation of state-owned enterprises; external borrowing and banking globalisation; hydro-carbons exploitation; GM agriculture; and metal mining. Under the rise of neoliberalism, the wave of privatisation transferred the public heritage to the market sphere, giving rise to: the rapid growth of public debt and foreign ownership and concentration of the banking system, the loot of the Argentine subsoil reserves of oil and gas, the land and property concentration, the transgenic crops boom, native woods deforestation, peasants and indigenous crisis, gold, silver and copper mining boom, the electricity and water theft, remittances of strategic non-renewable resources to world market and local communities dispossession of environmental heritage and the right to health.