reproduce an interview published the newspaper "El Universal", although correction: I put "human being" where they have placed "man" to avoid gender bias.
"No, none. In 1932, Bertrand Russell raised the four-hour day. Russell I am following in my approach, albeit with a different rationale. I wish I had someone to raise the four-hour day, but so far there is not. However, a phrase I always quote from Eduardo Galeano is the saying "what these machines if it is to work less."
"The disproportionate increase in technology the progress of the digital age, should give us more freedom, but we still have this primitive in use, then how can we manage this gap exists?
"That is precisely the problem. Marx felt and intelligently put it when he says that "the machine, which should serve to free the man, becomes in the hands of capital, the very opposite: a tool to enslave." And when it enslaves, it alienates.
- Is that why jornda preaches four hours?
"Yes." I am convinced that by reducing the working day, not only will we solve the economic problem of humanity, but also the problem of life, culture and human freedom. Let's take a step to change things and make the human being can be free.
But how much chance we have for all that has a landing Marxist utopia in reality?
"Well, do not call Marxist utopia, because in reality the reduction of working hours can be accepted and understood by many people without being Marxist. It's a matter of common sense and common sense.
- humanistic Utopia, then.
"Could be. I answer: it is perfectly possible to do so, and is very simple. We are very close to that.
- How?
"It's about everyone to agree. In that sense it is paradoxical, because it is simple yet complex. But it has to be a universal struggle. If it already did in 1919 when it quickly spread throughout the world strikes for the eight hours and were conquered, is much more feasible now than then.
"But, at that time people lived a life much more communal. Today, technology has identified the people and that has affected the collective, to the community.
- Do not know what they wanted?
"No, because they have a concrete demand. The claim failed to raise them at that time was the day of four hours, the equivalent of eight hours of 1919. If they had raised, that movement had come to victory and we would be in a society far better than dark swamp in which we are now. Today there may be another May 68. The story evolves with leaps, from time to time a jump occurs is kind.
- And you're already seeing that leap? "No, no. It would be premature to say. We are in what could be the eve of a rebellion, but realistically I expect it to occur in about ten years. Hopefully by 2019, one hundred years are met eight hours, we could go on strike for four hours worldwide.
"But it is the corporations that dominate the world because they have economic power.
"Yes, it is. However, there is a force that can deal with all this machinery of corporations.
"And what is that force?
"It's the strength of the proletariat. The great sleeping giant that could change history. As has been asleep, have forgotten him many times, even the leftists deny it now, as Peter denied Christ. However, the proletariat is not buried, is asleep.
- How waking thought?
"That's the difficult while it easier. Only opaque glass that prevents us from seeing the other side is a better world. The issue is to break the glass. We are in a swamp and on the other side of the glass, there is a garden. Also, what are the corporations when people stop going to work? Because there is no capital but with the work of the people. The power is in us. -Don Carlos, what do you think of communism in Cuba? Do you think that is envisioned by Marx?
-No. from the Marxist point of view can not be argued that Cuba, Russia and China are the socialism that Marx wanted. The very theory of this great philosopher proves it. but I will not fall into the simplistic to say that I condemn Cuba. It is a country that has made a revolution in the conditions it could. That is not socialism, nor was what happened in Russia, that was an invention Stalin. Socialism is the realm of freedom.
- Cuba is closed to investment, what is your opinion on this point?
"We've always sold the idea that things will be solved by attracting investment. You have to let investment comes with its benefits, they say. But the truth is that investment is the result of relocation. Ie what you pay here in Europe they paid three times, and another country when needed with much lower wages, investment will go, because no other country will miss saying "I do it for less." So that degrades and humiliates people, all to attract famous investors. And that has to be, they say.
- Would cartoons against those who communicate with their thinking?
"Why not. For example, if Susan Villa came to the hall and make mistakes, I would. What saddens me is that there are people I know and with whom I agreed on some things, and after cartoons against them bother.
