According to Bolivian philosopher Rafael Bautista, capitalism (modernity) is a way of life that only produces death.
“Capitalism is a system of production of death. It cannot live without continuous growth; it is like cancer: it grows without criteria, and growing, it destroys everything that makes its growth possible. Capitalism is an economy of growth”, he explained.
According to researcher Rafael Bautista, to produce a new world, it is necessary to produce a type of knowledge relevant to imagine, conceiving, and realizing that new world.
“We need another way of thinking, a new re-categorization of theoretical tools to describe what kind of world we are living in. We need to dismantle the myths that make the constant capitalism replenishment, serves the concentration of wealth, absurdly: 1% has more than 80% of humanity. The 1% is replenishing neo-Malthusian theories: they know that, in the new reset, there is no economic capacity to include labor”, he emphasized.
In this sense, Bautista insisted that the relevance of decolonization is the critical dismantling of the narratives that have become natural in humanity so as not to let us see the dimension of the crisis that has originated modern domination and its capitalist economic component.
“We require a new way of thinking, of generating new knowledge at the height of the hyper complexity globally happening. The mistakes of the 20th century need to be put in their place to realize that this new world needs to reformulate everything. We need to unlearn everything we have been taught and learn a piece of new knowledge,” he stressed.
The philosopher Rafael Bautista reiterated: “If we do not reach a knowledge that allows us to reconnect with life, with mother earth, we are going straight to death. The logic of accumulation is contrary to the logic of life preservation.”
“Alvin Toffler says that the new illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who do not know how to read and write, but those who do not know how to unlearn and relearn”, he added.
