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Our Memory: Other legacies of October (2005)






The other legacies of October.
"The current is not present, now is acting as"

think the legacy of the Russian Revolution of 1917 in the XXI century, after almost absolute hegemony of statist imaginary within the left, and the trivialization of the very idea of \u200b\u200brevolution in rights and in daily life involves jump-start a critical memory. A knowledge of combat that selects and articulates these fragments and truncated potential, now converted into "past" for a collective tradition, where the current standard appears unique perspective.

Emancipation is a present time thereafter, returned to life by our desire not to live in a chronology of oppression. Thinking about the Russian Revolution as a single event but as an inheritance and appropriations tissue leads us to think of it as a document of culture, without forgetting that he was also of barbarism (Benjamin Walter dixit).

We call this a meeting with the hope that the Cuban thought in particular and emancipation in general has overtaken their sensitivity to an unavoidable reference of modernity, caught in the theory and revolutionary practice, as shining at the moment of danger.


Discussion Board # 1. October 1917: left, critical alternatives.
Coyoacán • The flag flies over Cuba. Celia Hart.
• Revolution and anarchism in the Ukraine. Mario Castillo.
• Other: exclusions and pretermission in the traditions of the (s) left (s) American (s). Pavel German.
• Responsibility as an alternative. Fyodor Rodríguez.
• October: Revolution and model. Hiram Hernandez.
• Theories of the "New Class." Dmitri Prieto.

Discussion Board # 2. Realities of "real socialism."
• Lenin and cooperatives. Mario Castillo.
• The ideological absolutism "Marxist-Leninist." Dolores Vila.
• Soviet Cinema. Maylín Machado.
• Karel, Kuba, kitch & Kundera. Orlando L. Pardo. • Homo Sovieticus
: the dark side of utopia. Dmitri Samsonov.
• What market or self? Jorge L. German. • Sub-
and ex-socialist alternative. Johanna Abel.
• Socialism is beyond capitalism. Ariel Dacal.

Discussion Board # 3. October legacies in Cuba.
• Cuba, escorted with daggers. Tato Quiñones.
• Cuban economic Controversies: 1963-1965. Julio C. Guanche.
• Cuba: models of socialist economies. Armando Chaguaceda.
• Avatars of a poetry anthology. Desiderio Navarro.
• What the Russians left. Yoss.

Date: Saturday 12 March. Time: 9:00 am. - 4:30 pm.
Place: UNEAC, 17 and M, Vedado, Ciudad de La Habana.