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The Fatherland is source, limit, and horizon

“The Cuban counterrevolution remains trapped in an inescapable dilemma: since the Revolution claimed for itself—and has been able to uphold—the highest values, the counterrevolutionary discourse has found itself forced to challenge them—the sense of honor and sacrifice, the preeminence of dignity over money, the renunciation of individualism in favor of the common good—as if those values had served only as instruments of control that must be renounced in favor of individual freedom and well-being.”

— Iramís Rosique

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La Patria es fuente, límite y horizonte

«La contrarrevolución cubana permanece atrapada en un dilema insoluble: como la Revolución reclamó para sí y ha sido capaz de atenerse a los más altos valores, el discurso contrarrevolucionario se ha visto obligado a impugnarlos —el sentido del honor y del sacrificio, la preeminencia de la dignidad sobre el dinero, la renuncia al individualismo en favor del  bien común—, como si esos valores hubiesen servido sólo de instrumentos de control a los que es preciso renunciar en favor de la libertad y el bienestar individuales.»

— Iramís Rosique

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Sobre el Nietzsche de Badiou

"It is deeply troubling that so many of our greatest theorists and philosophers today—even when they claim to be progressive or leftist—openly or implicitly embrace the creative side of Nietzsche, believing themselves also to be free of resentment, when in actual fact this call for creativity and greatness is inseparable from a supremacist agenda that postulates the need for large masses of expendable individuals to prop up a few, usually male, geniuses. Our world today unfortunately may be even more Nietzschean than Badiou thinks, and for reasons other than what he explains."

— Bruno Bosteels.

Now in Spanish translation, on Communis.

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The Unsettling Other

“Is there a messianic secret hidden within Carlo Ginzburg’s secularized, heterological historical method? The answer may lie in the final lines published by Ginzburg, which conclude the preface to The Cheese and the Worms (2026), ‘Fifty Years Later’ by quoting Menocchio: ‘“He longed for a new world.”  The current historical situation makes these words, spoken almost five centuries ago, more urgent than ever. Menocchio is with us; he speaks to us.’ The hope for the liberation of the oppressed, the aspiration for unconditional justice, endures as an unyielding method and meaning of history, calling on us to choose between justice and injustice.”

— Gaetano Lettieri

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Vectors of Fascism

“Just as the immense violence of the American imperial State can be understood both as a function and as a symptom of its decline, the extraordinary concentration of capital and repressive power is also haunted by its own sense of precariousness. This is why someone like Elon Musk exists almost as a pure symptom: the combination of anti-trans sentiment, the Great Replacement theory, an obsession with white Afrikaner farmers, and the feeling that his political and economic power is not secure.  A starting point for an anti-fascist Left might be to ask what it would mean to embody this thing they fear, to give reality to their paranoia about expropriation, ‘social justice,’ or the ‘power’ of working people.”

— Alberto Toscano

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Vectores del fascismo

«Del mismo modo que en la enorme violencia del Estado imperial estadounidense cabe ver tanto una función como un síntoma de su declive, la extraordinaria concentración de capital y poder represivo también se ve acechada por su propia sensación de precariedad. De ahí que alguien como Elon Musk exista casi como puro síntoma: en él se combinan la transfobia, la creencia en la teoría del Gran Reemplazo, la obsesión por los granjeros afrikáneres blancos y la sensación de que su poder político-económico no está asegurado. La izquierda antifascista podría empezar por preguntarse qué significaría encarnar precisamente eso que tanto temen Musk y otros como él, hacer realidad sus paranoias sobre la expropiación, la “justicia social” o el “poder” de las trabajadoras y los trabajadores.»

— Alberto Toscano

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Defining Trumpism, defeating Trump

“The idea of socialism, of economic democracy, of the economy being controlled by the majority of people — that is, by the working class— is part of the solution. That’s a difficult thing for some people to grasp or to feel comfortable with, but realities are fluid right now, and there is tremendous discontent.”

— Paul Le Blanc

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May we explain?

“The central question at issue in the present essay, and arguably the central question at issue in our wider politico-judicial moment is to what extent does an activist or protestor, or indeed anyone at all, have a legally sanctioned right to explain why they believe they did the right thing?”

— Peter Hallward

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