Jose Miguel González

A neofascist Royal Family, a corrupt Catholic Church, a backward and conservative Spain ready to kill to avoid the word of science, progress and evolution getting out. Sound familiar?

“there is always a class war going on”
Chomsky is always a great idea, it is ever more difficult to still find contemporary critics of Capitalism and the greed of the 1% and large corporations, but Chomsky is always there. The book is a collection of different seminars and conversations around the time of the rise of the Occupy Movements across the globe and discusses the need for societies to revolt against capitalism and the powerful. Perhaps the format of the book and the fact the occupy movement is very much dead by 2020 didn't allow me to appreciate it as much as I should have. In any case... Chomsky is always a great idea

I had always heard it was one of the masterpieces of US 20th literature and I can only agree. Reading Catch-22 during a time when the world is on the brink of another mayor global conflict made it particularly enlightening. A satirical nival full of at times nonsense and surreal situations that should not keep the reader blind to the central theme, personal integrity and how individuals should challenge institutions and governments in particular in times of conflict, the absurdity of some wars and how men are cannon fodder for the elites.

“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”
“It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”
“[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.” “
Insanity is contagious.”

Cualquiera puede ejercer la magia y alcanzar sus objetivos si sabe pensar, esperar y ayunar.

Una corta colección de discursos de Thomas Sankara centrados en la emancipación de la mujer africana. Concretamente se centra en el discurso pronunciado el 8 de Marzo de 1987 (Día Internacional de la Mujer) tan solo unos meses antes del golpe de estado y su asesinato a manos de los golpistas.
El discurso es tremendamente revolucionario y feminista, sin duda adelantado a su tiempo. Más aún si consideramos que Sankara se dirigía a miles de mujeres de Burkina Faso atadas durante siglos por las cadenas de patriarcales, culturales, religiosas, tribales e imperialistas de la Africa sub-sahariana.
En algunos conceptos Sankara es incluso adelantado a sus contemporáneos europeos y norteamericanos, siguiendo las la visión de la mujer en la sociedad socialista.
Una obra breve pero necesaria sobre cualquiera persona interesada en la vida y pensamiento de Thomas Sankara y/o en lecturas sobre la emancipación de la mujer en general. Además es una de las pocas obras que se pueden leer sobre Sankara en castellano.