Wednesday, July 31, 2024
René Depestre, or Communism against the Negritude, de final battle
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Haitian Echoes: Transcendence and Threat to Cuban Culture
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Harris for president?
The truth is that Harrys survived the thick surveillance of the
Democratic Party, becoming the viable candidate; a skill that includes the use
of force, and above all knowing how to handle it to the right extent, with
damage control. Add to that the way she thrashed Biden in the presidential
debates, making herself taken into account; when he was an expert politician,
only ignored in his mediocrity by the corporate nature of his party.
That is important, Biden won the presidency because of the
support on Kamala Harrys, with the Operation Floyd; only for that reason could
he surpass Trump, by a narrow margin and without a real mandate, showing his
weakness. Harrys' presence in the vice presidency was muted, but that may
indicate more cunning than clumsiness; especially in a structure as iron as
that of the Democratic Party, which ignores political individuality.
Not much should be expected from a Harrys term though, it is
hard enough that she can set such a precedent; but even so she can give
surprises, with the astuteness with which she has been able to negotiate her
ascension to the top of the party. She capitalized on the support of a specific
sector, she did not dazzle humanity like the charismatic Obama; that gives her
the margin to work as a team, which she definitely knows how to handle; a
difficulty that Obama didn’t overcome, exposing himself to the pulse of Pelosi,
in the resentment he created with Hillary.
We have to see what she can do effectively, but she can
definitely do something, if she has come that far; that credit is in the mere
fact of having stoically gone through Biden's presidency, with all his white
man disdain. We will also have to see how she surfs the sea of international
politics, under the armamentist industry pressure; among the pending tests, she
has the left wing —which Biden was able to pulse back— shouting against Israel;
also the war in Ukraine, the conflict in Taiwan and the centrality of the
United States' leadership in NATO. But it is likely that the Party will exempt her
from this effort, with valuable, effective and always necessary advice; after
all, it is a joke to think that foreign policy is not the responsibility of the
Council on Foreign Relations.
As a prudence, I would recommend spending the vote on a lateral
movement like Cornel West, the liberal Trump; who it is not going anywhere, but
it is a reference, reminding the sector behind Harrys that the country is
bigger than the party. It's also a good maneuver, giving Harry time to
demonstrate, but also requiring her to do so; because the vote is not an act of
faith but of negotiation with its own power, and it is not necessary to give a
mandate until it shows its value.
Friday, July 19, 2024
About the return to the native land, from Cesaire to Depestre
Before
the Cuban process, and for whatever reasons, England led anti-slavery efforts
in the world; adding the payment for the manumission of slaves in their
territory, with a debt that only ended in the twentieth century. The rise of
the scientific-technical revolution can be argued, which required the
development, production and sale of machinery; more efficient, but requiring a
heavy investment, compared to the slave method, more onerous but already
established.
We
should remember that, at the height of the Enlightenment in France, it suffered
a depression in England; which reaching the closure of universities, sees its
elite emigrate to North America, refunding them in line with this process;
which does not include this abolitionist aspect, at least as a political
priority, but does include strong industrialization. But even in America, the
emergence of the Democratic Party does not occur as a harmonious an organized liberalism;
and the racist reticence of the first workers struggles in the United States,
is soon overcome by a more radical faction.
This
is what dilutes the phenomenon of Blackness —like the so-called Harlem
Renaissance— in its contradictions; given by its inevitable immaturity, as the
first stage of that development, in which it will acquire that maturity. That maturity
is what comes gradually, with the correction of precisely these problems and
contradictions; as the set in which this phenomenon will organize its own
hermeneutical spectrum, with its respective ontology.
That
ontology in turn, obeying the decline of that of the West, would be the one
that works regressively; as a recovery of the original reflexive functions,
prior to modern political determinism of Modern philosophy; which, arising from
the apotheosis in that sense of Christianity, would reach its own apotheosis in
the Enlightenment. Therefore, these are not illegitimate or incomprehensible
processes in any way, but only defective; which must be resolved in a constant
and inevitably critical correction due to its contradictory nature, like all
development.