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Tina Trutanich

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Reading Rosa Luxemburg in an Era of Barbarism

At the outset of the unprecedented carnage and destruction of the first World War, Rosa Luxemburg, the German-Polish revolutionary leader and thinker wrote:

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.’ … Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. … Today, we face the choice exactly as Friedrich Engels foresaw it a generation ago: either the triumph of imperialism and the collapse of all civilization as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration – a great cemetery. Or the victory of socialism, that means the conscious active struggle of the international proletariat against imperialism and its method of war.

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Leave Capitalism Behind

Science fiction has entered our dialectical dystopian reality. Climate catastrophe, war, violence, the rise of fascism. Capitalism harms and destroys nature, human beings, and the possibility of a future. The capitalist imperialist US-Israel-UK axis has murdered thousands of Palestinians, displaced even more, and is currently carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people. How do we, as revolutionary socialists and abolitionists, find hope in each other and the world?

You will not find that hope in the Netflix’s “Leave the World Behind.” Unlike Julia Roberts’s character, Amanda, who declares before the opening credits “I fucking hate people”–We fucking love people. We love the people. The poor people, the queers, the misfits, Black, Brown, and Indigenous people. People with disabilities, homeless people, sex workers, the working poor, the international working class. Leave the World Behind is misanthropic, nihilistic, neoliberal defeatist, pro-military propaganda reinforcing racism and eco-fascism.

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El Poder Revolucionario del Amor

Dado que el deseo es una construcción social, el amor deseado es una acción colectiva hacia nuestra liberación. Deseamos un amor sincero y digno. Deseamos la liberación. Karl Marx afirmó en una ocasión que nuestra conciencia surge de nuestra experiencia como seres sociales. El capitalismo no es sólo un sistema político y económico, como lo entiende la mayoría de la gente, sino que también invade y coloniza nuestra vida cotidiana como estructura social. Como tal, nos esforzamos por construir comunidad, y sobre todo en forma de “familia”. Como afirma M.E. O’Brien en El capitalismo de abolición de la familia y la humanización del cuidado, “a menudo tenemos la sensación de haberla encontrado”[2] Sin embargo, el capitalismo nos impide construir las comunidades y familias que necesitamos.

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The Revolutionary Power of Love

Because desire is a social construct, love desired is a collective action toward our liberation. We desire life-giving and honest love. We desire liberation. Karl Marx once stated that our consciousness comes through experience as social beings. Capitalism is not only a political and economic system as most people understand it, but also permeates and colonizes our daily lives as a social structure. As such, we strive to build community, and mostly in the form of “family”. As M.E. O’Brien states in Family Abolition Capitalism and the Communizing of Care, “oftentimes we feel as though we have found it.” Under capitalism, though, we are prevented from constructing the family we need.

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