Abdulkadir Özkan: "You can't be strong if you can't produce"

Abdulkadir Özkan: "You cant be strong if you cant produce"
Date: 11.11.2021 17:00

Milli Gazete columnist Abdulkadir Özkan writes on economy. Here is the full article.

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In our country, price increases weaken the expensiveness, and expensiveness weakens the purchasing power of a large part of the society. This inevitably leads to a decline in production. In this respect, the primary condition for being strong is to increase production, which is not enough. In order to be able to win the competition in the market with our production, costs must decrease. However, a record is being broken in the increase in production costs, especially in the field of agriculture in our country. Well, although producer costs are increasing, does this increase reflect on our farmers? It is impossible to say yes to this question. Because the product bought from the manufacturer for one lira is on the shelves in big cities at 4-5 times the price. The difference is in the pockets of some intermediaries. All these are not unknowns. Our people see and know this truth, as well as those who have to rule this country. However, certain words are always repeated when it is time to find a solution to the problem.
 
Mahmut Asmalı, Chairman of the Independent Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (MUSIAD), pointed out that interest is an obstacle to production, briefly saying:
 
“Interests have two sides. The return side, the cost side. The cost aspect that concerns the industrialist. In other words, high interest rates cause high production costs and cause inflation to be high. In this context, we support the reduction of interest rates, which we see as the biggest obstacle to investments, production and employment.”
 
In short, interest functions as an instrument of exploitation by global capitalists, created for the exploitation of countries and peoples who are condemned to foreign borrowing. In the meantime, in order to get rid of foreign dependency, production must be increased and increased production must be able to compete in the world markets so that the country gets richer and we can escape from being condemned to global capital circles.
 
When we look at the issue from this point of view, global capital circles, which present capitalism as a world reality, have of course considered all the consequences while making this order dominant. In other words, such an exploitation system could not have emerged spontaneously and by chance. Because even if a large part of the world realizes industrialization, they have not been able to get rid of foreign dependency in raw material supply. Because colonial countries have either occupied or subdued them in whichever corner of the world there is a useful raw material accumulation. As a result, the whole world, especially developing countries or countries that have taken action in the direction of development, have been indirectly turned into tools of the exploitation wheel through the borrowed money. Unfortunately, this exploitation has been presented as a fact of life by some circles in developing countries, and societies have been indirectly inspired to enjoy exploitation, and it still is. When we look at the issue from this point of view, our country's increasing debt stock and interest payments doom our people to poverty, while paving the way for the colonial powers to grow fat.
 
For this reason, my late Erbakan Hodja gave his life to the struggle against this usury slave system. For this reason, it has always been the target of global capital circles. Of course, global capital circles resorted to all kinds of ways to prevent the deterioration of the established order, with the help of their supporters/tongs, which they acquired from within, in order to prevent the deterioration of their order. While Turkey struggled to avoid being exploited, the colonialists struggled to continue their exploitation even more. In this respect, there is a need for the establishment of a new world for the end of exploitation, more than every day. Otherwise, if the existing order prevails, countries will seem independent while their dependence will continue, and the exploited will not be able to escape from slavery.

YEREL HABERLER

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