Javier Milei’s Controversial Speech at Davos Forum: Criticism of the State, Left, and Socialism

2024-01-17 16:43:01

The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, He called the businessmen who were listening to his speech this Wednesday at the Davos Forum (Switzerland) “heroes” and stated that the “State is not the solution”, sino “the problem itself.”

“You are the creators of the greatest period of prosperity we have ever experienced,” Milei told the businessmen, following calling them “social benefactors”, Therefore, he recommended that they “not give in to the advance of the State.”

In a half-hour speech, the Argentine president opened by saying that “the West is in danger” due to the advance of socialism on the “free enterprise capitalism”.

After this, he recommended to businessmen that “not let themselves be intimidated by the political caste or by the parasites who live off the State,” because they “They are the protagonists of this story.”

Milei, who assumed the Argentine Presidency for four years on December 10, upholding the principles of libertarianism -“the defense of life, liberty and property”-, He announced to the businessmen that “from today” they count on the South American country “as an unconditional ally.”

The Argentine president defended the “free enterprise capitalism” as “the only tool to end hunger” in front of those who “demonize” a system that has lifted 90% of the world’s population out of poverty and “fast”.

Javier Milei’s harsh criticism of the “State” and the “left”

The president explained that, for this reason, the “leftist doxa” has attacked him on questions of morality, saying that he is an individualist.

On the other hand the “Collectivism is good because it is altruistic” and fights for social policy “with that of others,” says the Argentine.

Milei considers that in his country this has been the political discourse for 100 years, and he has been “trapped in this downward spiral in which every day” he is poorer.

The above, because the “Social justice is not fair and does not contribute to the general well-being” forks “intrinsically violent” because the taxes with which it is financed are collected coercively.

Milei asked to confront those who fight for “impoverishing socialism” and that it has been an “economic, social and cultural failure and, in addition, murdered more than 100 million human beings.”

Also to those who apply regulations to correct market failures or the concentrated structures of the economy, because in this way they “open the door to socialism.”

“It is impossible for something like market failure to exist,” unless the State intervenes, he said.

“Collectivists do not propose freedom, but more regulation,” stated, while considering collectivist variants to the communists, fascists, Nazis, socialists, social democrats, Christian democrats and globalists, among others.

He added that the socialists “they changed the class struggle” By others “alleged conflicts also harmful to the economic system”, such as the feminism and environmental agendas.

Before his presentation, Milei held a meeting with the United Kingdom Foreign Minister, David Cameron, which he described as “great”.

Milei traveled to the forum that brings together more than 2,800 leaders from 120 countries, accompanied by his chancellor, Diana Mondino; the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo; the chief of staff, Nicolas Posse, and the general secretary of the Presidency and her sister, Karina Milei.

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