Jul 14, 2019
Part 1 of Red Library's Revolutionary Politics in Central and South America Series
Comrade Rhie joins us in the library this week to work through the fire and beauty that is Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America.
As this is the introductory episode to our series, we focus on distilling the structural and historical factors that have shaped politics in Central and South America such as colonization, capitalism, and racism throughout the last 5 centuries. We try to balance the political economic analysis offered by Galeano with staying true to his poetic descriptions of the untold suffering inflicted on Central and South America throughout centuries of colonial and imperial expansion. I think we pull it off quite well.
Further Reading/References
- Eduardo Galeano
- Open Veins of Latin America Summary
- Edward Said
- Orientalism by Edward Said
- Chilean 1973 Coup D'Etat
- Tariq Ali
- Comrade Adam's Introduction to Anti-Imperialism Reading List
- James Baldwin
- Quinoa Production Boom Goes Bust in the Andes
- Meat Production and Global Warming
- The Poverty of Philosophy by Immortal Technique
- The Moors that Conquered Spain
- Galeano's Recent Thoughts on Open Veins of Latin America
- Colorism
- Allan Dulles
- John Foster Dulles
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