CATASTROIKA OFFICIAL MULTILINGUAL
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Catastroika is a crowdfunded documentary under creative commons license. It was at the beginning of 1989 when the French academic Jacques Rupnik sat at his desk, in order to prepare a report on the state of the economic reforms in Mikhail Gorbatsov's Soviet Union. The term that he used in describing the death rattle of the empire was "Catastroika". In Yeltsin's time, when Russia instituted maybe the biggest and least successful privatization experiment in the history of humanity, a group of Guardian reports assigned a different meaning to Rupnik's term. "Catastroika" became synonym of the country's complete destruction by market forces; the sell off of public property; and the steep deterioration of citizens' living standards. Now, Catastroika's unit of measurement was unemployment, social impoverishment, declining life expectancy, as well as the creation of a new cast of oligarchs, who took over the country's reins. A few years later, a similar effort to massively privatize public property in unified Germany (which is presented as a model for Greece) created millions of unemployed and some of the biggest scandals in European history. It is this "Catastroika" that is coming soon to Greece; to "Europe's last Soviet Republic" as the MPs and the ministers of its former "socialist" government liked to call it. Catastroika is the logical aftermath and continuation of "Debtocracy". Therefore, the logical sequence of our first documentary, which examined the causes of the debt crisis in Greece and the European periphery as a whole. Nevertheless, Catastroika is a virus that attacks not only the countries that radically change their economic system (like Russia) or countries under financial occupation. In fact, maybe the most unsuccessful privatization examples occur in financial superpowers that theoretically have the financial strength to control their negative consequences. Catastroika can be spotted in post-Thatcherite Britain, where citizens were killed in accidents at the privatized rail network. It can be detected in the Dutch privatized and liberalized postal sector, where thousands of jobs have been cut and mail arrives at one's door two to three times per day. It can be detected even in California, which left her citizens in the dark when it deregulated the energy market. However, its consequences are the gravest and most frightening at countries which fell in the trap of foreign lenders and are obliged to proceed to mass privatization. The public property sell-off which takes place in Greece has been tried several times in similar circumstances. The same people, who undertook the selling of public utilities in Latin American countries, now have moved their office in countries of the European periphery --and the most competent among them have been travelling to Athens during the last months. The procedure always follows exactly the same steps: In the beginning, the government, in collaboration with mass media, starts a forceful attack against public servants, who are presented as responsible for all the country's financial woes. The myth of the overextended public sector is often based on manipulated data from organizations supported and supporting the government of the time. Concurrently, specific public organizations are deliberately left unsupported, exasperating citizens due to their inefficiency. The process is completed by the sell-off of even the most profitable public organizations at a fraction of their real value. Catastroika's team travelled in many countries, collecting images, information and material on deregulation and privatization programs that have been implemented at the so-called "developed" world. The final result of the research is never black or white. The divide between the "social character" of the public sector vis-à-vis the inhumane face of the free market is equally simplistic as the theories of Milton Freedman that professed the need to privatize even the air that we breathe. The Greek case however supersedes the simple theoretical discussion on the role of the country in the economy. Once more, the documentary is distributed online under creative commons licence. The free circulation of Catastroika is not just an "obligation" to our co-producers. It is our deeper and ideological belief that each product of intellectual creation should be freely available to all. The current financial system, while based all the more on the production and management of information, is incapable by its nature to find a way to secure the remuneration of information creators. This is probably one of many dead-ends in the development of the economy's productive forces, which may soon threaten the bases of the current financial system. Because, as it is well known, every system that stopped the development of the productive forces fell apart -- and you can ask the feudalists about that...
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I didn´t like how that was structured and particularly the first part about Greece what I have found extremely biased. I don´t consider as a documentary as it looks like more to me like a carefully arranged reportage to make the situation appear as an attack to the democracy, not about the responsibility about the ones who managed to bring Greece and Europe to that point.
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Ο ελληνικός λαός έχει πληρώσει ήδη για αυτές τις υπηρεσίες ωφέλειας. Αυτές είναι επομένως δική τους περιουσία και ίδιος ο λαός θα πρέπει να τους αρπάξουν.
Η δημοκρατία δεν ήταν ποτέ η "λαöκρατία". Ο "δήμος" ήταν το δουλοκτητικό τάξη. Κανένας από του δήμου δούλεψαν. Μόνο οι δούλοι και οι μετανάστες (μέτοι) δούλεψαν. Η δούλεια ήταν για τους αρχαίους Αθηναίους η δουλεία. Δείτε (στην αγγλική γλώσσα) https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-economy-of-ancient-greece/ -
21:05 XAXAXAXAXAXAXAAAXAX KATROUGALE WRAIA POU T ELEGES TOTE E?
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Εξαιρετικο και αυτο το ντοκιμαντερ του Αρη. Το μονο ζητηματακι ειναι η καταχρηση της λεξεις δημοκρατεια. Η ΣΥΡΙΖΑ εμπειρια αλλωστε ελπιζω να επνιξε και την τελευταια αυταπατη. Οπως το λες αλλωστε και στο τελος "δεν μπορουμε να επιστρεψουμε στην κατασταση που μας εφερε ως εδω, η δημοσια περιουσια στον ελεγχο τον εργαζομενων". Σοσιαλισμος συντροφοι η μονη λυση. Καιρος να σηκωσουμε κεφαλι να στρωσουμε τον κωλο μας κατω και να δουμε πως θα φερουμε τουμπα την κατασταση. Καθε μερα που περνα, μια μερα ακομα χαμενη!
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No multilingual subtitles?
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Tempos duros!"""TODA RESISTÊNCIA É LEGITIMA"""
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Larry Summers and his Harvard University buddies have their fingerprints on another financial catastrophe from which we are still recovering: the collapse of 2008/9. Watch the documentary "Inside Job" by Charles Ferguson.
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I'm really sorry about Greece. Everywhere is same shit, in my country too (Kosovo). Hope one day people will rise up!
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Την επόμενη φορά που θα δείτε φοιτητές να κάνουν κατάληψη στο πανεπιστήμιό τους ή εργαζομένους να απεργούν πριν τους κράξετε σκεφτείτε ότι ίσως προσπαθούν να εμποδίσουν το ξεπούλημα του πανεπιστημίου τους και της δημόσιας περιουσίας μας...
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Thank the heavens this has been produced, and if it couldn't be done by Greeks forced in to worst "shock therapy" outside of the bad old days in the developing world - it couldn't happen any where. Come on Syriza, do what you were elected to do, come on Podemos, come on us Brits!
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2015: 20k views, 150 thumbs up ... FU mankind
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é hora de todos os povos se unirem contra essa armadilha do capital, não podemos ser vencidos, somos nós que alimentamos o sistema!
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Where is the multilingual part? I want this in english
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boycott banks
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super, it's true. banks destroying peoples
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πάθαμε μεγάλη πανωλεθρία εκείνο τον ιούνιο,αλλά τουλάχιστον εκείνες τις μέρες επιβεβαίωσα οτι η δημοκρατία στη ψωροκώσταινα έχει καταλυθει,αν ποτέ υπήρξε,βέβαια Δεν θα ξεχάσω ποτέ το ότι πήγαμε να βγούμε απο το σταθμό του μετρό πάνω στη πλάτεια και μας περίμεναν πάνοπλοι.Μέχρι να φτάσουμε στη άλλη έξοδο,το σκηνικό υπογείως ηταν σαν βιντεοπαιχνίδι πολέμου,άνθρωποι ξαπλώμενοι να προσπαθούν να αναπνεύσουν,2 άλλοι να κουβαλάνε μια μεσήλικα στα χέρια,δράμα.Δε θα το ξεχάσω ποτέ όμως!
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Χατζηστεφάνου ενοχλείς το σύστημα πιο πολύ κι απ'τον καθένα...Συνέχισε να αποκαλύπτεις τους σάπιους υπερασπιστές του βρώμικου καπιταλιστικού συστήματος.Συνέχισε να ξυπνάς τον κόσμο!
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Bravo..Synexiste..!!
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