Thanks Anthony. I am not sure what you mean by a patrimonial house in this case. Could you explain? Anthony Boynton (a pen name for Ted Z.)
On Sun, Jul 26, 2026 at 6:20 PM Anthony Teso via groups.io <anthony.p.teso= [email protected]> wrote: > 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] <#m_-7265918358223786120__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] <#m_-7265918358223786120__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 (#42662): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42662 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
