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Re: <nettime> Evo Morales: people of Bolivia are rising up |
On 12/11/2019 01:28, frank tigrero wrote: > Are we really on some MAGA right wing listserv defending the coup? What the hell has happened here.... On the contrary. It appears we are on a black/white (non)thinking list. Beyond left/right there are at least three more categories of political agency relevant here: 1: A frustrated people suffering from betrayal, suppression, lack of food and drink and acting outside of (the constraints of) specific party political philosophies. 2: Indigenous people and peasants who are neither left nor right, but not staying home tonight. 3: Anarchists. It is worrying that the world - *and this list* - has come to this simplicity of either/or and immediate outrage if a perceived party line and simple good/bad, us/them dichotomies are not submitted to. In that sense George Bush continues winning. Us or them. Then, to be a little more to the actual point: If you lump Zibechi (who has been reporting on the frontlines of social movements in Latin America for decades) in with the far right, then you are simply a fool. If you don't agree with his perspectives, then argue something, though it is difficult to really argue with what he is reporting, because he is actually mainly /reporting/ from the streets. If you want to find out more, see also the work of Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/cusicanqui-silvia-rivera/ - "Bolivian historian and social theorist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is author of the classic work Oppressed But Not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Quechua in Bolivia, and has recently emerged as one of the country’s foremost critics of President Evo Morales from an indigenous perspective..": from: http://upsidedownworld.org/archives/bolivia/indigenous-anarchist-critique-of-bolivias-indigenous-state-interview-with-silvia-rivera-cusicanqui/ Taking a look at the world, assessing what is going on, is seemingly beyond ordinary agency these days and everything must, it appears, be instantly categorisable as good/bad; us/them. Don't think for yourselves people, my mind is made up and I am right. Now go back to bed (and your Twitter feed). Make Socialism Great Again? --- PS: A Bolivian friend just wrote: "...As the sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui suggested: Evo Morales is the Right. He has built a Museum in his town of origin to honour and celebrate his career. He thinks he has the right to stay there forever. He is a dangerous megalomaniac. Sounds familiar? Who else in the world would build a museum to celebrate his ego, who else would think that he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and get away with it? Does the name of any ‘stable genius' come to mind?..." # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: