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BJP Leaders Shocking Comments on Chandrababu | Telugu news - YouTube - 0 views

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Arabica Robusta

In defence of left-wing populism - 0 views

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  • In Greece, Syriza, born of a coalition of different left movements around Synaspismos, the former eurocommunist party of the interior, succeeded in creating a new type of radical party. Its objective was to challenge neoliberal hegemony through parliamentary politics. The aim was clearly not the demise of liberal democratic institutions but rather their transformation into vehicles for the expression of popular demands.
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      Arabica Robusta on 03 Jun 18
       
      This is such a naive, myopic description!
  • Even if it was reformed, it is not always possible or desirable to force democratic demands expressed through horizontal social movements into the hierarchical verticalist mode. We need a new form of political organisation that can articulate both modes, where the unity of progressive people will be constituted not, as in the case of right-wing populism, by the exclusion of immigrants, but by the determination of an adversary represented by neoliberal forces. This is what I understand by “left-wing populism”.
  • The agonistic struggle is more than a struggle between conflicting hegemonic projects. It is a struggle about the construction of the people. It is important for the left to grasp the nature of this struggle. Seen in terms of a “collective will”, “the people” are always a political construct.
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  • Many of the demands that exist in a society do not have an essentialist reactionary or progressive character. It is how they are to be articulated that determines their identity. This brings to the fore the role that representation plays in the constitution of a political force. Representation is not a one-way process going from the represented to the representative, because it is the very identity of the represented that is at stake in the process. This is the central flaw of those who argue that representative democracy is an oxymoron and that a real democracy should be direct or “presentist”. What needs to be challenged is the lack of alternatives offered to the citizens, not the idea of representation itself.
  • Collective political subjects are created through representation. They do not exist beforehand. Every assertion of a political identity is thereby interior, not exterior, to the process of representation.
  • I use “passions” to refer to the common affects at play in the collective forms of identification that constitute political identities. Passions perform a central role in the construction of a collective will at the core of any left-wing populist project.
  • The EU is currently composed of consumers, not of citizens. It has been mainly constructed around a common market and has never really created an European common will. So it is no wonder that, in times of economic crisis and austerity, some people will begin to question its utility. They forget its important achievement of bringing peace to the continent.
  • We could say, following Gramsci, that we are witnessing an “organic crisis” where the old model cannot continue but the new one is not yet born.
Arabica Robusta

Pambazuka - Tribute to Chris Hani on the 20th anniversary of his assassination - 0 views

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  • The close links between the liberation movement and the Soviet Union very likely had an important role in affirming the ANC’s non-racial perspective. In their biography of Hani, Smith and Tromp describe his first visit to the Soviet Union (in the early 1960s): ‘In the USSR now, the men were witnesses to the way a powerful nation was run. For Hani, having joined the Communist Party a mere two years earlier, but having read extensively on socialism and Marxism, it was the culmination of theory, reading, imagining… There were no beggars and no blatant poverty. The activity in the city was frenetic: houses being built on one side, flats on the other.
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      Arabica Robusta on 22 Feb 14
       
      It is likely that Hani and his associates were taken where the Soviet state elite wanted them to go. I am sympathetic to arguments that the Soviet Union was a place of state capitalism, rather than socialism.
  • Chris Hani was murdered on 10 April 1993 in Johannesburg by a fascist gunman by the name of Janusz Waluś, who was working with a senior South African Conservative Party MP on a plot to assassinate a number of prominent liberation fighters and thereby spark a civil war along race lines, derailing the negotiations to end apartheid. Their plot was unsuccessful, as the massive wave of shock and grief at Hani’s death was channelled towards a new momentum in the peace process. South Africa’s first democratic election – one of the most historic events of the twentieth century – took place a year later, on 27 April 1994.
  • ‘I think finally the ANC will have to fight a new enemy. That enemy would be another struggle to make freedom and democracy worthwhile to ordinary South Africans. Our biggest enemy would be what we do in the field of socio-economic restructuring. Creation of jobs; building houses, schools, medical facilities; overhauling our education; eliminating illiteracy, building a society which cares, and fighting corruption and moving into the gravy train of using power, government position to enrich individuals. We must build a different culture in this country... and that culture should be one of service to the people.’
Arabica Robusta

Pernicious martial law imprints still palpable - AT GROUND LEVEL By Satur C. ... - 0 views

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  • Why have the pernicious imprints of martial law remained palpable 40 years after Marcos imposed one-man rule, and 26 years after a popular uprising ended his dictatorship?
  • None of the key martial-law authors and implementers has been called to account and appropriately penalized for his or her crimes against the people. Some of them have even cunningly transited to power in the post-Marcos governments, including the Marcos widow, Imelda, and children Imee and Bongbong.
  • President Cory, who vowed to make her government the “exact opposite” of the dictatorship, retained certain Marcos repressive decrees, against the strong recommendation of Jose W. Diokno, then chair of the Presidential Human Rights Committee.
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