Mis libros y citas

  The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World Vincent Bevins Internally, when anticommunism is the ruling ideology, almost the national religion, any legitimate complain from below can easily be dismissed as communist. Anything that would be an obvious inconvenience to the small clique of rich families that run the country can be easily categorized as dangerous revolution and cast aside. This includes any web of socialism or social democracy, any land reform and any regulation that would reduce monopoly power and allow for more efficient development and market competition. It includes unions and any normal demands for workers rights.  

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Angela Y. Davis Progressive struggles whether they are focused on racism, repression, poverty or other issues, are doomed to fail if they do not also attempt to develop a consciousness of the insidious promotion of capitalist individualism. I see my work as reflecting not an individual analysis but rather a sense within movements and collectives that it was not possible to separate issues of race from issues of class and issues of gender. Just as the struggle to end South African apartheid was embraced by people all over the world and was incorporated into many social justice agendas, solidarity with Palestine must likewise be taken up by organizations and movements involved in progressive causes all over the world. The tendency has been to consider Palestine a separate and unfortunately too often marginal issue. This is precisely the moment to encourage everyone who believes in equality and justice to join the call for a free Palestine.    

  Bullshit Jobs: A Theory David Graeber If the existence of bullshit jobs seems to defy the logic of capitalism, one possible reason for their proliferation might be that the existing system isn't capitalism-....In many ways, it resembles classic medieval feudalism, displaying the same tendency to create endless hierarchies of lords, vassals, and retainers.    

  Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back Kate Aronoff Neoliberals have always operated within a world of contradictions, arguing in public that the market offers freedom and that it needs to be insulated from democracy, painting the marker as a natural part of human existence while pushing to pass policies that keep it functional. Just like climate denial, there are some dupes who truly believe in laissez-faire and the invisible hand but the real movers and shakers have always been more pragmatic than dogmatic.    

  Humankind: A Hopeful History Rutger Bregman When we're holed up in our own trenches, we lose sight of reality. We're lured into thinking that a small hate-mongering minority reflects all humankind.(...) To believe people are hardwired to be kind isn't sentimental or naive. On the contrary, it's courageous and realistic to believe in peace and forgiveness.  

  Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Mark Fisher Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics. The most Gothic description of Capital is also the most accurate. Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.  

  Internationalism or Extinction Noam Chomsky Humans are now facing the most critical questions that have ever arisen in their history. Questions that cannot be avoided or deferred, if there's to be any hope of preserving, let alone enhancing, organized human life on earth. We surely cannot expect systems of organized power, state or private systems, to take appropriate actions to address these crises, not unless they're compelled to do so by constant, dedicated, popular mobilization and activism.