Aug 30, 2023
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
– Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto
Communism is the riddle of history solved.
– Karl Marx, Economic and …
Aug 29, 2023
The cover Announcing a release of an English translation of Marta Harnecker’s Los conceptos fundamentales del materialismo histórico, or The Elementary Concepts of Historical Materialism in English. This book …
Aug 27, 2023
For many years this blog was called Parametricity. I am no longer that interested in type theory, so I am renaming the blog to reflect its new content, which is mostly Marxism. Still it is just the personal …
Aug 10, 2023
Most of us are familiar with the potential discomfort of passing a person begging on the street. Some stop and give some money or food, some stop to say they don’t have cash, most try to avoid eye-contact …
Aug 4, 2023
My words are not mine and yours are not yours
And neither were Shakespeare’s so don’t worry
Echos
Or reverberations
My organ receiving/transforming/transmitting
Who does that beautiful sound belong to?
Me?
Was …
Jul 26, 2023
Mute compulsion is a very nice book. So far I’ve read the first few chapters and found it to have one the most accurate and sophisticated description of Marxism I’ve seen written in a single place. It is an …
Jun 7, 2023
Last month, flying over the Atlantic in the throes of an existential crisis brought on by too strong an edible (which I had taken to try to sleep through the flight), I had the following disturbing …
Jun 1, 2023
The following is a translation of an article from Caminos (A Cuban journal of socio-theological thought). It was written by José María Vigil, Spanish-Nicaraguan liberation-theologian.
Seeing: The climate …
May 30, 2023
Housing and the Cuban Revolution “In the first three years of the revolution, 1959-61, all measures were taken to disarticulate the capitalist system at its base.” This is how Zuleica Romay Guerra …
May 18, 2023
This is a follow-up to the post “Class and Race”.
This post gives an example of the way ethnic groups can serve as particular instantiations of historical roles which occur abstractly.
Because I am …