Dolores Cacuango, also known as Mamá Doloreyuk, was a leader in the fight for indigenous rights in Ecuador born on this day in 1881. She was active in the Glorious May Revolution of 1944 and co-founded the Indigenous Federation of Ecuador (FEI).
Cacuango was born to enslaved people in San Pablourco who worked the Pesillo Hacienda near Cayambe without being paid. She had no access to education due to her lack of resources, and learned Spanish while working as a housemaid.
In 1930, Cacuango was among the leaders of the historic workers' strike at the Pesillo hacienda in Cayambe, which was a milestone for indigenous and peasant rights. During the Glorious May Revolution in Ecuador, Cacuango personally led an assault on a government military base.
The same year, with the help of Ecuador's Communist Party, Cacuango co-founded the Indigenous Federation of Ecuador (FEI), an early group in the fight for indigenous rights. She also helped establish some of the first bilingual indigenous schools.
Dolores Cacuango, la rebelde líder indígena ecuatoriana que luchó por la educación y la tierra
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Do you reckon it'd be possible to completely eradicate reactionary views or will there always be small groups of people that hold fascist views even under communism?
That's an interesting question. Under capitalism you do see a small minority of true reactionaries who want to go back to medieval or classical civilization. So it stands to reason that you'd have some reactionaries in the commune that want to turn back the clock to capitalism, right? But reactionaries hold these views because they hold a romanticized version of the past, occupy a downwardly mobile class position (threatened middle class or settler or whatever), and in general are experiencing the negative effects of the contradictions of capitalism. If we're assuming a communist world, these factors aren't really going to exist. Thus, I expect far fewer reactionaries.
The way I see it, reactionary and fascist views are both natural ways humans think, enabled by environment and circumstances, and while I think they can be greatly diminished, they can never be truly "eradicated".
Some people will always want to have more than others, they will always make up excuses why they deserve more than others. That is, in my mind, the core of fascism, and while you can combat it, it will never truly go away, just like how communist thought was never truly eradicated under fascism. Because communist thought is similarly fundamental, being based on the simple idea that nobody should have more than others.
If all communists were killed today and all literature burned, it would simply be reinvented because the principles it's based on are that fundamental and natural. Someone, at some point, would think "hey, i think it would be fairer if we treated people more equally" and the ideology would develop itself from there as people try to figure out how equal treatment could and should be done.
Similarly, if you killed all fascists today and burned all "fascist literature", the core of the ideology would be reinvented the moment you have a man and his wife in a room, the man realizes that he has a certain individual power over her because he is physically stronger and so in direct conflict situations the woman is more likely to give in to avoid potential harm, and then the man starts making up justifications for why this is actually totally fair because he enjoys the privileged position in their dynamic.
Fascism cannot really be eradicated because to some extent, it's natural to enjoy individual power, to want to be at the top of a hierarchy, to feel "better" than others. We all have elements of this inside us and there will always be people who fully embrace them, who will convince themselves that their individual power is justified for one reason or another and who will designate an "other" to subjugate, expropriate or expel.
So what you're saying is that inside me are two wolves?
Yes
i think you're being too permissive with your terms here. i don't agree a man will inevitably think of dominating a woman in the first place, but even if they did that's not fascism. 'fascistic' thoughts outside of the economic basis that enables fascism has to manifest in different ways. big misogynist guys in the middle ages weren't goose-stepping, they were becoming monks or some such bullshit. the same will occur in post-capitalism, though who can say how it would look
Given unlimited men, one of them will invent fascism. Certainly fascism is not a natural state of affairs, though.
Even a communist state will need to take measures to prevent the proliferation of fascist ideology, because let's be real it's really hard to "start fresh" by somehow killing all fascists, that's not feasible in real life. So the above point is moot anyway.
Maybe you misunderstood, I don't mean "If a man and a woman are in a room, the man will inevitably be tempted to dominate the woman", but I do think that it's inevitable that it'll happen somewhere at some point.
And yes, when a man uses his individual power over a woman to make her do household chores while he watches football, that is not "fascism". But misogyny, racism, any kind of bigotry and oppression are inexorably linked to fascism in that they are all about dominating and abusing the weak.
I'm not saying that it's fascism when a 10th grade schoolyard bully demands a skinny 5th grader give him his lunch money or he'll beat him up, nor that if a schoolyard bully does that it means he'll inevitably grow up to be a Nazi. What I am saying is that fascism isn't an ideology that was thought up by some guy at some point and every fascist since has based their world view on that one guy's ideas, but rather that it is the systemic implementation of a fundamental way humans can think and act. It is about abusing power to dominate the weak, the use of force to defend ones place in a hierarchy, to take from those least capable of defending themselves.
Fascism can be defeated, systemic oppression and bigotry can be overcome. But my point is that they'll never be gone "for good", that there will always be someone, somewhere giving in to the temptation of abusing the power they've been given for their personal benefit, and as long as people are capable of that, people are capable of fascism. It can never be truly eradicated because it stems from the worst parts of human nature.
no i caught your meaning, i genuinely disagree with "inevitable that it'll happen somewhere at some point" though. physical 'superiority' of males is a social phenomenon, and if nothing else a big fit person becoming a bully under communism will be a non-gendered problem
kinda was, though. the specific application to conditions of different countries has varied, but no more than socialist theory gets modified to material conditions. the lack of 'one theory guy' akin to Marx is because fascism is nationalistic, communism being international lets us all share ideas, but fascist attempts to draw from different wells or cooperate with each other fall pretty flat due to the obvious contradictions. but that doesn't mean fascists don't share specific characteristics across all their movements that are identifiable and firmly lodged in the capitalist epoch. i find it difficult to imagine fascists' ideological drive toward class collaborationism and putting down labor unrest being a relevant idea in a classless society. i'd argue you've substituted the term fascism for a general idea of injustice, the end of which is a much more philosophical question than fascism specifically
Could be
I'm definitely going by a very vague, more abstract definition for the term than you are.
I'm not trying to argue, I genuinely don't understand this. Are AMAB people not generally physically stronger than AFAB people?
differences in 10-20% in strength/height are relatively minute and almost all research has been conducted in milennia old patriarchal social structures. subjectively, socialist nations' women tend to be regarded as stronger, just after decades and 1/2 generations of imperfect equality. it's my belief that a couple centuries of gender equality would actually flatten these out
The thing about reactionaryism is that it is a "reaction" If you were raised in a fully communist culture "reactionary thinking" would default to a pro-communist position because that would be your default culture. Fascist ideas may still happen in that system but they will be revolutionary and alien to most people. Whereas right now fascist ideas are "regressive" but still seen as "natural" because the world has run on populist "othering" of one form or another since the bronze age.
The idea of cultural revolution is to rewrite the entirety of culture to make reactionary thinking work in favor of communism instead of nostalgia for a society with a ruling class. The best part is the idea of "everyone helping everyone" is more appealing than the "dog eat dog" of capitalism or the "those people aren't actually people" of fascism so if we can turn reactionaryism into communism it will have a way better chance of sticking than capitalist and fascist ideology.
I think there will always be reactionary views as long as people can experience suffering and trauma theres always a possible reactionary response.