Caracas, April 18, 2024.- “The Decadent Civilization” was presented at the Gathering for a World Social Alternative, organized by the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA TCP) and the Simon Bolivar Institute (ISB), which brought together social movements, leaders and activists for unity and the construction of a common agenda against imperialism”.

In its first part, Juan Carlos Monedero, political expert and delegate from Spain, stated that “we live in a nihilistic world where commitment does not go beyond oneself (…) and we are fighting against giants. Do not forget that you can never cover the sun with one finger”.

Likewise, Monedero stressed: “let us not forget that the blockade has been perpetrated against the peoples with the support of the United States (…) we are fighting against a brutal media attack and we are tired and exhausted of all this onslaught. The world has turned “ugly”, but do not forget that the people who have a project are always the ones who survive”.

Meanwhile, Colombian anthropologist Carlos Rosero said that “there is no capitalism without racism and racism always leads to genocide, hate crime; America should be a racism-free zone; that should be the premise”.

The Colombian added that “enslavement and trafficking are at the base of the primitive accumulation of capital; we are defending America to be a zone of peace, but we must also demand for it to be a zone free of racism”.

In the same vein, Alina Duarte, from the Mexican delegation, highlighted that in order to talk about the decadent civilization we start from several points of view, we are clear that production means are changing; it is necessary to continue analyzing these monsters of capitalism”.

“Today bots are paid in social networks to attack us from all sides in all countries, but we must make a deeply militant and anti-fascist communication, we must become the communicational guerrillas, turn ourselves into the communicational armed wing; and keep training ourselves and training others,” Duarte concluded.

Likewise, closing the series of presentations, Guatemala’s delegate, Carlos Barrientos said that “Commander Fidel Castro warned us in 1992 about climate change, and said that it was too late to take action; nowadays, reports show the seriousness of the situation, but they also hide realities from us”.

He pointed out with great euphoria that “the future has already arrived, it is already happening and we are already suffering from Climate Change; when there is an emphasis on the environment, what is really at stake is that capitalism has led us to the point of taking away from us the possibility of continuing fighting for life”.