Reading Capital, Jože Barši, REC
Reading Capital – Proletarians of All Countries Unite!
In the fall of 2007 I joined a group of political science students who got together once a week for reading sessions of Marx’s Capital (Vol. 1) at the Workers-Punks University in Ljubljana. After political changes in Slovenia and ex-Yugoslavia in the beginning of 1990s Marx’s theory almost [...]
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 [...]