How to reclaim the common by Doina Petrescu
The destruction of public property
Cities in Eastern Europe faced spectacular transformations during the last decade. We have witnessed there, more than in other parts of the world, a dramatic devaluation of the idea of ‘common’ and ‘public’ and a violent destruction of the existing public property. If during the socialist regime, the social crisis was [...]
Tucumán Arde 1968
Tucumán is the name of a region in northeastern Argentina whose tropical climate makes it ideal for growing citrus fruits, vegetables, tobacco, and, above all, sugar. In the second half of the 1960s, the agricultural structures in Tucumán were transformed by massive intervention on the part of the government under the dictator Juan Carlos Onganía. [...]
The Seventh by Attila Jozsef
If you set out in this world,
better be born seven times.
Once, in a house on fire,
once, in a freezing flood,
once, in a wild madhouse,
once, in a field of ripe wheat,
once, in an empty cloister,
and once among pigs in sty.
Six babes crying, not enough:
you yourself must be the seventh.
When you must fight to survive,
let your enemy [...]