The electoral victory of center left regimes in at least three Latin American countries, and the search for a new ideological identity to justify their rule, led ideologues and the incumbent presidents to embrace the notion that they represent a new 21st century version of socialism (21cs).
Prominent writers, academics and regime spokespeople celebrated a totally new variant of socialism, as completely at odds with what they dubbed as the failed 20th century, Soviet-style socialism. The advocates and publicists of 21cs claims of a novel political-economic model rested on what they ascribed as a radical break with both the free market neo-liberal regimes which preceded, and the past “statist” version of socialism embodied by the former Soviet Union as well as China and Cuba.
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Eduardo Galeano:
ReplyDeleteEl cacique había sido elegido por los ancianos de las comunidades. ¿Había sido el rey de Castilla elegido por los ancianos de sus comunidades ? La América precilombina era vasta y diversa, y contenía modos de democracia que Europa no supo ver, y que el mundo ignora todavía. Reducir la realidad indígena americana al despotismo de los emperadores incas, o a las prácticas sanguinarias de la dinastía azteca, equivale a reducir la realidad de la Europa renacentista a la tiranía de sus monarcas o a las siniestras ceremonias de la Inquisición.
Motes and beams.
ReplyDeleteGoogle translation:
ReplyDelete<span><span>"The chief had been chosen by community elders. </span><span>Had it been the king of Castilla elected by the elders of their communities? </span><span>Precilombina America was vast and diverse, containing forms of democracy that Europe could not see, and that the world does not know yet. </span><span>American Indian reality reduce the despotism of the Inca emperors, or the bloody practices of the Aztec dynasty, is to reduce the reality of Renaissance Europe to the tyranny of their rulers or the sinister ceremonies of the Inquisition."</span></span>
Wow! It looks like Google translator has got much much better..
BTW, I really need to read Galeano soon. I never heard but the best things about him..
I also entered motes and beams in Google and got this from the New Testament (Wiki):
ReplyDeleteJudge not, that ye be not judged.
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.