Re: <nettime> Evo Morales: people of Bolivia are rising up

[tacira@riseup.net]

it is about lithium
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/11/bolivian-coup-comes-less-week-after-morales-stopped-multinational-firms-lithium-deal

it is about militias
https://epoca.globo.com/coluna-na-bolivia-protestos-banalizam-mal-com-corte-de-cabelo-forcado-de-prefeita-24070607
and neopentecostal performances (30 thousand books burned at the
presidential library, bible over flags)

it is about satire of resistance
https://www.lavaca.org/portada/bolivia-la-noche-de-los-cristales-rotos-por-maria-galindo/

a colinialidade viva e exposta

as eternas veias abertas da america latina


Em 2019-11-12 08:24, jmp escreveu:
> 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?..."
> 
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