Ted Zuur’s report on the Colombian election, published at New Politics and reprinted at LINKS and Against the Current , is the most useful account of the crisis yet to appear in our press, and this essay depends on it throughout. [1] ( #_ftn1 ) Its virtues are the virtues of the tradition it comes from. Zuur keeps two questions separate that the solidarity literature habitually fuses: whether the count was stolen and what the class map of the country shows regardless of the count. His answer to the second question is the durable finding. Whatever the courts decide, Colombia now contains a near-mass party of the working class and the oppressed, with 12.7 million votes, facing a recomposed dynastic right preparing to govern by decree. I want to press that finding harder than Zuur does. The government arriving on August 7 is best understood as a patrimonial house wearing a Bonapartist mask, and the mask does not yet fit. And the response of the Colombian left, so far, fails the test Hal Draper made the axis of the whole socialist question: self-emancipation. It fails in a specific way. The way is correctable.
[1] ( #_ftnref1 ) Ted Zuur, “Electoral Setback in Colombia Opens a New Phase of Struggle,” New Politics , July 2026, reprinted at LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, July 18, 2026, and as “Colombia and Latin America: A New Stage of the Struggle,” Against the Current , July 2026. All quotations from and factual attributions to Zuur refer to this article. The_Household_and_the_Chorus.docx ( https://1drv.ms/w/c/c3598b38f68269be/IQCwsIhUK7eMQ6V_isimjJ1ZAREo4RMgJnwJ4GshT8W6tAg?e=BEIfMj ) Tony -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42661): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42661 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/120456431/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
