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Primero, Catherine Walsh sobre la opción decolonial (luego, lo que esto pueda significar para la lectura del párrafo 16 ): The decolonial, of course, is not a new condition to be rendered, implemented, or achieved by government, nor could it ever be a project of structures and institutions that retain the governance mold of vertical authority, control, and power. To think then that governments can achieve or even provoke decolonization without radically transforming first the very notions of authority and power is a fallacy that even Evo Morales is making clear. The decolonial comes not from above but below, from the margins and borders, from the people, communities, movements, collectives who challenge, interrupt, and transgress the matrices of colonial power in their practices of being, action, existence, creation, and thought. The decolonial, in this sense, is not a fixed state, status, or condition; nor does it denote a point of arrival. It is a dynamic process always in the ma...

Quiero dedicar esta entrada a un párrafo en específico que discutimos durante la última sesión del grupo de lectura de El Capital (05/06/2020). Es el párrafo número dieciséis, sección cuatro ("The Fetishism of the Commodity and It's Secret"), capítulo 1 ("The Commodity"), parte 1 ("Commodities and Money"), del libro 1 ("The Process of Production of Capital") –de la edición en inglés publicada por Penguin– el cual copio completo aquí: For a society of commodity producers, whose general social relation of production consists in the fact that they treat their products as commodities, hence as values, and in this material [sachlich] form bring their individual, private labours into relation with each other as homogeneous human labour, Christianity with its religious cult of man in the abstract, more particularly in its bourgeois development, i.e. in Protestantism, Deism, etc., is the most fitting form of religion. In the ancient Asiatic, Classic...