Francisco Aguirre talks about collective action

On April 22, the discussion entitled "The challenges of collective action" was held by Joaquín López from the School of Biology with Francisco Aguirre as a guest.

“Pancho” Aguirre has a long artistic career of more than 40 years, he has participated in theatrical works and films, in 2013 he was appointed as a member of the House of Culture and in 2017 he was involved in the struggle for the liberation of the public spaces for expressions of art and cultural diversity.

Based on this brief summary, Joaquín López welcomed Francisco Aguirre and began by asking him how collective action arises to ensure the common good.

The interviewee commented that, from the beginning of history, to achieve survival it was necessary to be collective, and that has not changed "in this age of possessors and dispossessed."

From his anti-capitalist stance, Aguirre pointed to positive elements of capitalism, for example, the advancement of technology, roads, medicine that was taken to places that did not reach, all this is in the wake of the rubber fever that arose in the twentieth century.

But he added that the system has a very expensive cost, based on its prioritization of profit and its generation of social inequality.

For Aguirre, the State should be a priority to eliminate poverty.

Finally, the guest noted that politics must be transversal and that governments must connect with the needs of society and with the concerns that society has.

UDA Correspondent