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August 10, 2023

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.

August 1, 2023

by Tina Trutanich

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.

September 30, 2020

by Héctor Reyes

Assimilate This! Is it possible or desirable to assimilate into a white supremacist, colonial settler, and imperialist nation?

Assimilation is this political plasticine that is frequently at the core of newspaper editorials, scapegoating by politicians, and ideological constructs of what it is to be a citizen of the United States of America (U.S.). As such, it refers to a myth-soaked narrative of the history of the U.S. as a nation; who is assumed to belong to it, or who can be allowed to earn a spot in that ark of glorified passengers known as “Americans.”
The term “American” sits at the center of this chauvinistic and exaggerated conception of who is a “red-blooded” inhabitant, and therefore a bona fide “citizen” of the U.S. It is a misguided and vainglorious term that robs the rest of the inhabitants of the Americas of such self-designation. For everyone born or naturalized in Latin America, Central America and the Caribbean