Eduardo Galeano, born on this day in 1940, was a Uruguayan journalist and author known for, among other texts, his work "Open Veins of Latin America", which the editors of Monthly Review Press called "perhaps the finest description of the primary accumulation of capital since Marx".

Galeano began his career as a political cartoonist and journalist - at fourteen, he was contributing political cartoons to the socialist newspaper "El Sol". At 20, he was the managing director of "Marcha", a storied weekly in Uruguay.

Some of his high profile work as a journalist includes an interview with Juan Perón, a laudatory profile of Che Guevara, and a portrait of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, who had just completed his Maoist re-education in a nondescript building on the outskirts of Beijing.

Galeano is perhaps best known for his book "Open Veins of Latin America", which details how, through five centuries of plunder by European conquistadors and American corporations, the region's abundant natural resources had been extracted to enrich a few local elites and many foreign interests.

The editors of Monthly Review Press, which published the U.S. edition, described the book as "perhaps the finest description of the primary accumulation of capital since Marx." President Hugo Chávez gave a Spanish-language copy of Open Veins to President Barack Obama on his first diplomatic visit to the region.

"The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth."

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  • nanoplague [she/her,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Ugh, sorry about this but I just can't seem to find the energy to craft a response. My college friend sent me a message (after I posted an angry response to a local terf issue) asking why Rowling gets the hate because she's 'read everything Rowling's said and doesn't see it.' Obviously she's coming in with her mind made up, but the combo of defending rowling and the person it's coming from are really making me feel depressed. So.... The request:

    Rather than writing an essay detailing why she's wrong and why she should listen to impacted communities, I'm sure there is an essay out there that summarizes the key timeline and points. She made a few red flag comments in the response, and I just need to nip this in the bud asap and it just makes me so fucking tired. (I know it makes everyone tired, but I just can't deal with it right now.)

    • AmericaDelendeEst [any]
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      2 years ago

      I think if someone doesn't see writing a 1000 page book about a transphobe getting murdered when in reality trans people are the ones getting murdered as justification for calling someone a bigot they are trying pretty hard to not see it

      • nanoplague [she/her,comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah. Probably. My partner thinks that since this was done as a dm, that likely she wants to 'educate me' on why I'm being an immature and impressionable radical again, but there were a few things mentioned that gave me additional pause that friendo in question is getting terfy also.:(