Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez: Semiotics of judicial reforms

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All legal structures are creaking and rickety. They resent the weight and passage of time, they suffer from the bourgeois ideological burdens and the insane tonnage of injustices inherent to capitalism. It was to be expected that the legal skeleton would no longer resist and that its sighthounds would begin to organize jurisprudential operating rooms to delay the autopsy of a corpse in accelerated decomposition. It takes a lot of criticism and self-criticism. This is not fixed with reforms.

Under capitalism justice It is also a luxury commodity. No matter how many theoretical and rhetorical efforts the bourgeoisies have made to excite us with a vigilante spillover theorywhere the subordinate classes (salary, educational, health and humanly) manage to beg a plot of legal philanthropy, the absurdity of injustices is infernal and there is no longer any way to hide the ideological Frankenstein with which they intend to impart their justice. This matter does not allow euphemisms. You have to go deep.

The disparity in wages, working conditions, time input and the lack of dignified treatment for the working class is absolutely unfair. The shortage of health services, which have never been expeditious, effective or decommodified, is unfair. The educational marginalization, the conditions of the establishments and the manipulation of teachers subjected to miserable educational models when they should be emancipatory and revolutionary are unfair. The objective conditions of housing are unfair, for the vast majority of people forced to pay more than half of their salary in exchange for a place to live. put lifebecause housing in general is below all elementary dignity. The violence of an economic system, corrupt by definition, in which individualism, mercantilism and inequality reign, is unjust, as if they were a moral merit. This accumulation of injustices against people should be punished, prohibited and banished forever. If there were, in its most valuable social and historical sense, justice.

Even the idea of ​​bourgeois happiness that has been implemented as a parameter of the success. In societies that customarily postpone all kinds of dignity for the people, banal laughter, reveling in superfluous pleasures, luxury, waste, ecstasy with stupidity become obscene. Ideological merchandise, all of them and more, that intoxicate the collective imaginations and confuse more than one who does not realize or who avoids the awareness of dispossession, even of real happiness that would be very different without the bundle of trinkets that have turned happiness itself in a junk commodity inflated with banal and individualistic pleasures. Many times in a bathing suit. As in the TV .

This could be stopped immediately if the logic of justice were an emancipatory social struggle to permanently modify and control every legal-political instance. Take away from the bourgeoisie the legal and deceitful controls that they have imposed against the free development of the people and their productive and organizational forces. And not be content with temporary reforms, without denying their relative usefulness. Bourgeois ideological war, in legal territories, is nothing other than the deployment of attacks to guarantee eternal dominance over the economy, politics and the submissive mentality. In the legaloid circus financed by the oligarchies, wimps trained to attract followers, or drug addicts, shine today. show of toga antics. The vociferations or whispers of the judges, their arrogance and constant chatter are not cheap merchandise… operating simultaneously on the confusion and with fake newsmore spectacular every day on the monopolistic speakers disguised as media. The Judiciary as a business for a few and as a prison for the rest.

They trade in the deepest social pain that they themselves have inflicted on the people. They are not ashamed to talk about that justice that they turned into one of their great businesses. They don’t blush to talk about crime manufactured by themselves to protect and enrich themselves. Their pulse does not tremble to deploy their justice with anti-political flags that they themselves have sponsored in their privileged sects. They claim to serve the country, the people and the Republic while they tear apart their clothing defending their many privileges inflated with dogmatic and fanatical talk. We have seen it thousands of times; They have defeated us with their deceptions and they always display it as what is new and what we have always wanted.

Let’s not accept the manias of reformism browncat. A revolution of conscience is urgently needed also in the fields of justice, laws and the entire mess of regulations, codes and provisions to control the people. Combat semiotics serves us here to make transparent the meaning of the reformsits limits and its scope in the face of reality. We do not want a judicial reform absorbed in metaphysical or scholastic dalliances; It does not serve us as another object of study to contemplate the ways, means and relations of production of meaning without intervening in its radical transformation within the framework of the capital-labor dispute, where reality is settled. If we really were a society in which the greatest heritage of humanity was humanity, laws would not be necessary.

A judicial reform covered with simplisms and without identifying and punishing the crimes of the class enemy, without remedying our weaknesses and historical wounds, such as the usurpation of natural resources and enslaved labor, is of no use to us. In the background of each reform of the laws and their paraphernalia, it is essential to identify, name and characterize the money that nourishes it, make its financing transparent, accompanying such transparency with a revolutionary pedagogy of justice because, among the semiotic pathologies of our times, a new kind of cynicism abounds. , shielding has been made from all injustice disguised as legality. There are many cases of extreme legalized corruption, like capitalism itself, with a thousand disguises of fluent lawyers. Let us not contemplate his spectacle with crossed arms. Much of the bourgeois paraphernalia, in defense of its justice, is a compendium of propaganda aberrations that have become naturalized in a landscape of overproduction of injustice with bourgeois ideological masses. Against this, justice must be politicized and democratized. No more deception or self-deception.