1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media book Club book Club book Club. Hello 2 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:12,399 Speaker 1: and welcome to cools On Media book Club, the only 3 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: book club where you have to chant, but at the 4 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: beginning of it, the only book club that's ever been 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: devised that way. I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and each 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: week I bring you stories about different things. And this 7 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: week I'm going to continue where we were last week. 8 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: From where we were last week. I'm going to continue 9 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: from where we were last week, which is that we 10 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: were reading a bunch of different fables as it were 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: written by Ricardo floresmcgon, who, if you didn't listen to 12 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: last week's or don't know who that is, was a 13 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: Mexican revolutionary, one of the main ideological thinkers of the 14 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 1: Liberal Party prior to the Mexican Revolution, and ironically, the 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: Liberal Party was the anarchist party because political terminology is 16 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: almost meaningless. And before and after mcgone helped with a 17 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: lot of other people stage a massive uprising to try 18 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: and bring power directly to workers and peasants and things 19 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: like that across Mexico. He wrote a lot, and he 20 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 1: worked with a newspaper that he and other people ran 21 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:24,960 Speaker 1: called Regeneracy on Regeneration, and he wrote a lot of parables, 22 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: and so we're gonna we're gonna keep reading some of 23 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: those parables because I find them interesting. I also find 24 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: them heavy handed, which is absolutely this is not the 25 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: political way that I have any interest in writing. Personally. 26 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: I find it really instructive to see the ways that 27 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: different types of political fiction writers have written throughout the years. 28 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: And I don't want to make this like sweeping generalization 29 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: that like, oh, one hundred years ago, before you know, 30 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: Ursula Gwynn, people didn't ever bother having any subtlety or 31 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: self critique in their political writing, because that's actually not 32 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: the case at all, you know. I hope we get 33 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: to talk about it more at some point. But this 34 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: whole thing, where as far as I can tell, if 35 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: you were in the literature scene of France in the 36 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: eighteen nineties and early aughts, you know, you pretty much 37 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: were an anarchist, the same way that if you were 38 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: a punk in the nineteen nineties and early aughts in 39 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: the US, you know, if you wanted to be taken seriously, 40 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: that's what you were. And I believe that the people 41 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: writing that kind of literature saw themselves first and foremost 42 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: as literature writers. You know, an Oscar Wilde was a 43 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: very good example of an anarchist fiction writer who certainly 44 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 1: did not make his fiction bend to his political project. 45 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: And we talked about it a bit in episodes that 46 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: we did about Oscar wild But he actually very specifically 47 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 1: believed that you didn't have art for socialism's sake, you 48 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: had socialism for art's sake, because he wanted everyone to 49 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: have the sort of free time in lives of leisure 50 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 1: that more people can have when we actually share the 51 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: bounty of this earth, so that they can create things. Anyway. 52 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: This first story that I'm going to read by Macgon 53 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: is called Justice, and is from nineteen fourteen. This one's 54 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: real subtle. The governor, the capitalist, and the priest rested 55 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,799 Speaker 1: that afternoon in the shadow of an ash tree, which 56 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: glowed vigorously in the canyon of the mountain range. The capitalist, 57 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: visibly agitated, mashed the pulp of a red booklet between 58 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: his hands, and said, between sigh and sigh, all has 59 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: been lost. My fields, my cattle, my mills, my factories. 60 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: Everything is now controlled by the revolutionaries. The governor, trembling 61 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: with rage, said it has ended. Now no one respects 62 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: authority and the priest elevated his eyes to the sky 63 00:03:54,680 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: and said, remorsefully, wicked reason, she has murdered faith. The 64 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: three pillars of society, thought, thought, and thought. The previous night, 65 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: some fifty revolutionaries had invaded the village. The working class 66 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: of the area had received them with open arms. While 67 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: the town was searching for the governor, the capitalist, and 68 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: the priest to demand from them a strict account of 69 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: their actions, they fled to the canyon seeking refuge. Our 70 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: empire over the masses has ended, said the governor and 71 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: the capitalist in one voice. The priest smiled and said, 72 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:37,239 Speaker 1: in a convinced tone, do not worry yourselves. Clearly faith 73 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: has lost some ground. However, I assure you that by 74 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: means of religion, we can recuperate all that we have lost. 75 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,359 Speaker 1: First of all, it appears that the ideas contained in 76 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: this evil booklet have triumphed in the village. They will 77 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: certainly triumph if we remain inactive. I do not deny 78 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: that these wicked ideas enjoy sympathy among the people. However, 79 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 1: others refuse them, especially the ideas that directly attack religion. 80 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:07,720 Speaker 1: Among these last people, we must foment a reactionary movement. Fortunately, 81 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 1: the three of us could escape. If we had perished 82 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: in the hands of the revolutionaries, the old institutions would 83 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 1: have died with us. The capitalist and the governor felt 84 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 1: as if they had been liberated from a terrible burden. 85 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 1: Inspired by greed, the capitalist's eyes drizzled. How how would 86 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: it be possible for him to enjoy again the possession 87 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: of his fields, his cattle, his mills, and his factories. 88 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: Hadn't it all been just a cruel nightmare? Would he 89 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: return to having the entire population of his district under 90 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 1: his power thanks to the good minister of religion? And 91 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: standing up, he shook his fist in the direction of 92 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 1: the village, whose farm houses glowed brightly under the rays 93 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: of the may sun. The governor, emotional said, with conviction, 94 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: I have always believed that religion is the most solid 95 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 1: support of the principle of authority. Religion teaches that God 96 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 1: is the first leader and that governors are his lieutenants 97 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:10,359 Speaker 1: on earth. Religion condemns rebellion because it considers governors to 98 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: be above the people by will of God. Long live religion. 99 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: Enamored by his own words, the governor snatched the red 100 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 1: booklet from the hands of the capitalist, tearing it to 101 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: pieces and throwing the scraps at the village, as if 102 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: challenging the noble insurrectionary proletariats dogs. He cried, receive this 103 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: with my saliva. The bits of paper were blown by 104 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: the air, flying cheerfully like Butterfli's plane. It was the 105 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 1: manifesto of September twenty third, nineteen eleven. The first shadows 106 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: of the night began to descend upon the valley. Through 107 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 1: the twilight could be seen a red flag rippling on 108 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: top of a small house in the village. It flaunted 109 00:06:55,560 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: in white letters, this inscription land and liberty. The governor, 110 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: the capitalist, and the priest cried out, shaking their fists 111 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:08,039 Speaker 1: towards the village, nest of vipers, we will soon crush you. 112 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: The last brush strokes of the sun still shone, emitting 113 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: from the west. While disappearing, the frogs began their customary serenade, free, happy, 114 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: ignorant of the miseries that make men suffer. In the 115 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: ash tree, a pair of mocking birds sang to each 116 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: other of their free love without judges, without priests, without clerks. 117 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: The gentle beauty of the hour invited the human heart, 118 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: to expose all its tortures and to materialize all its 119 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: sentiments in a work of art, making the rocks shudder. 120 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: A formidable cry rolled through the dale. Who lives? The governor, 121 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: the capitalist, and the priest trembled, foreseeing their end. The 122 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: night had finally come, shrouding everything in blackness. The mocking 123 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: birds hushed up, the frogs down. A gust of wind 124 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: stirred the bows of the ash in a sinister manner, 125 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: and the awful darkness A resonating, fateful cry returned. Who lives? 126 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: The three pillars of society remembered all their crimes in 127 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: a second. They had enjoyed all the delicacies of life 128 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: at the expense of the suffering of humble people. They 129 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: had sustained the ignorance and misery of humanity in order 130 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: to satisfy their appetites. A sound of energetic footsteps drew 131 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:33,440 Speaker 1: closer to them. It was the soldiers of the people, 132 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: the soldiers of the social revolution. A discharge of rifle 133 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: shots felled the representatives of the hydra with three heads, Authority, Capital, 134 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: and Church. And that's the end of the first story. 135 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: But do you know what's not the end of you're 136 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 1: not free from You're not free from advertisers because you 137 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: have not had a social revolution that freed you from 138 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: this yoke. And so here you are listening to ads. Well, 139 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: unless you have the social revolution of having cooler zone media, 140 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: in which case you don't have to listen to ads. 141 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: You just get to listen to ad pivots, which is 142 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: the most fun part of the show for me. And 143 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 1: we're back, so okay. Rather than talking about them all 144 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: the en I wan't talk about that last story really quickly. 145 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:29,559 Speaker 1: One of the things that I find so interesting about 146 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 1: this story, there was this very strong conception in anarchist 147 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,320 Speaker 1: thought and a lot of you know, revolutionary movements that 148 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,080 Speaker 1: was specifically like these are the three heads authority, like 149 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: the state, capital, and the church, and these are very 150 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: reasonable positions to have. And what's interesting is that if 151 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: you look at some of the antecedents, like if you 152 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: look at like the modern Zapatistas, which I'm currently doing 153 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 1: a deep dive on on my show Cool People Who 154 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 1: Did Cool Stuff, one of the things I found really 155 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,439 Speaker 1: fascinating is that when this appetist we're naming their territories. 156 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,119 Speaker 1: These are folks who have a bunch of autonomous territories 157 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: in Chiapas, the southeastern most state in Mexico. It's an 158 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: indigenous run area basically that they that they control, and 159 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: they named a lot of their municipalities all of these 160 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,439 Speaker 1: different things, and they named one of them Ricardo Floris Macgone, 161 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: after the author of this text, not because he wrote 162 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 1: this text, but because he was an important thinker in 163 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:28,199 Speaker 1: this tempted social revolution of you know, the nineteen oths. 164 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: But one of the other municipalities is named after San 165 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: Juan the Liberator, and you know, is named after the 166 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 1: first saint who is indigenous to North America. And there's 167 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 1: not necessarily the same antagonism towards the church, but actually 168 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: within this Bapatista camp, but there's also not necessarily the 169 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: same antagonism towards government. They perceive the idea of government 170 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 1: as upside down from the way that normal society does, 171 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: where they believe that you know, the people rule and 172 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 1: the government follows is like their big thing, right, and 173 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: they've set up a lot of structures around that. And 174 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: so you have this like movement that grew out of 175 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: a lot of different movements, and one of the things 176 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: that it grew out of was the liberation theology movement, 177 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: and so I just find it fascinating how movements ebb 178 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 1: and flow in the way that we frame these fairly 179 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: important questions, and yet we're still part of the same 180 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: movement on some level. The Sapatistas, their famous thing is 181 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 1: that they fight for a world in which many worlds 182 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 1: are possible, and I fucking love that, and I think 183 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:41,319 Speaker 1: they're great. Anyway, let me read you another story Rewarding 184 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: Merits nineteen sixteen. The prison and the temple chat secretly, 185 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: like two cronies who are tied together more by the 186 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: nooses of crime than those of friendship. From the citadel 187 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: escapes the stench of rotting cattle. From the temple emerges 188 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: a few laden with dismay, saturated with swooning, like the 189 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: mouth of a cave in whose darkness all the dehabilitated 190 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: grovel and all the impotent wring their arms. I abhor 191 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: the people, says the citadel, yawning. However, I bestow my 192 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:21,439 Speaker 1: consideration and respect to the worthy, distinguished people whose interests 193 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 1: I shield. Each time the honorable guardian of order brings 194 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: me a new guest, I shiver with emotion. My satisfaction climaxes. 195 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,719 Speaker 1: When I feel more and more criminals stirring within my 196 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: stone belly, there is a pause. Through the bars can 197 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: be heard jangles of shackles, murmurs of protests, cracks of horsewhips, 198 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 1: bullying voices of authority, amid the wheezing of harassed beasts, 199 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 1: all of the horrible noises that form the horrible music 200 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: of the prison. Great is your mission, my friend, the prison, 201 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: says the temple. I reverently bow my tap before you. 202 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: I also feel satisfied to be the shield of distinguished people. 203 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,679 Speaker 1: Whereas you en chain the body of the criminal, I 204 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: break the will of the people. I castraate their energy. 205 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: Whereas you lift up a wall of stone between the 206 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: hand of the poor and the treasures of the rich, 207 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: I invent the fires of hell, putting them between the 208 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:25,319 Speaker 1: cupidity of the miserably poor and the gold of the bourgeoisie. 209 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: There is a pause. Through the windows, and the doors 210 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: enter the aromas of incense and the fetid perspiration of 211 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: the clustered cattle. From the blue space emerges sounds of sobbing, 212 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: of supplications. A vile racket created by all the deabilitated people, 213 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 1: and all the penitents, the abject music of the submissive 214 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: and the defeated. As long as I remain standing, the 215 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: Master sleeps tranquility. The prison says, while there are knees 216 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 1: that touch my tiles, the Master's power will remain standing, 217 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 1: says the temple. There is a pause. The prison and 218 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:07,680 Speaker 1: the temple appear to meditate, the first satisfied for enchaining 219 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 1: the body, the second content for enchaining consciousness, both of 220 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: them proud of their merits. In the corner of a 221 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: small cave, some dynamite overhears their conversation, powerfully restraining its 222 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: forces so that it does not explode from indignation. Wait, 223 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: it says to itself. Wait, monuments of barbarism, for the 224 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: bold hand that will unleash the blast from my bosom 225 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: will arrive sooner than you think. In the belly of 226 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: misery convulses the fetus of rebellion. Wait, wait for the 227 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: fruit of centuries of exploitation and tyranny. The black phalanxes 228 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: of men consume the last swallows of bitterness and sadness. 229 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: The glass of patience overflows some more drops, and all 230 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: the indignations will overflow. All the angers will leap out 231 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: of their jail cells, all the audacities will transgress their limits, weight, 232 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: somber edifices, cellars of agony. For in the Great Calendar 233 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: of human suffering flares with colors of fire and blood, 234 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: a red date, a new July fourteenth for all the bastilles, 235 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: those of the body and those of the consciousness. The 236 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: cattle are standing up, converting themselves into men. Soon the 237 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: sun will stop toasting the backs of the herd to 238 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: illuminate the fronts of free men. Weight. You will remain 239 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: standing only as long as I stay in this corner. 240 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: But they forgot about the third pillar that keeps people, 241 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: the fourth pillar that keeps people in line. Who could 242 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 1: that be anyway unrelated? Here's some ads and we're back. 243 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: I talked about this a little bit on the last one. 244 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: There's a certain kind of bitterness or sadness in mcgon's 245 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: writing this period. Right, he's had this great revolution and lost, 246 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: you know, I mean, they did a lot of good work, 247 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 1: but the thing that they ended up laying the groundwork 248 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: for was the Mexican Revolution, which was captured fairly soon. 249 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: And the you know, the people that mcgone was helping, 250 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: and that the maganestas more broadly in the Liberal Party 251 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 1: were helping went and then put down the actual social revolution. 252 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: And so there's this intense bitterness and this like hope 253 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: against hope being like no, no, no, We're going to 254 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: remember the dynamite. There's the line that the dynamite is 255 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: powerfully restraining its forces so that it does not explode 256 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: from indignation. And I think about this. I don't know 257 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: if you'll watch and or but there's a part in 258 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: it where an old revolutionary is talking about the space 259 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: gasoline that they're in the process of stealing, and talking 260 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 1: about how the revolutionaries like that gas They understand each 261 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 1: other because they are the thing that explodes when there's 262 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:08,399 Speaker 1: too much friction in the air. And I just I 263 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 1: like this mirror of ideas across one hundred years in 264 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: different countries. Okay, have one more story for him. The 265 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: triumph of the social revolution from nineteen fifteen not dramatic 266 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: at all. Juan is ecstatic. He has just seen a 267 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 1: notice from Washington in a newspaper saying that they have 268 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 1: recognized Kranza as the head of the executive power of 269 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 1: the Mexican Republic. He effusively embraces his wife, Yosepha, He 270 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 1: kisses his young son and yells out, Now peace will 271 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: be a reality. Misery will end. Long Live Kranza Yosepha 272 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: stands there with her mouth open, looking attentively at her husband. 273 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 1: She does not understand how merely raising a new president 274 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: to power could put an end to misery. She casts 275 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: a glance around the room, a room in a dead 276 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: end alleyway in the Mexico City neighborhood of Tepozan, and sighs. 277 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: Everything around her is miserable. The wicker chairs are breaking 278 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 1: apart at the bottom. The plate of the brazier does 279 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 1: not have a sliver of carbon. The miserable bed flaunts 280 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 1: sheets that display arbitrary drawings of maps, the product of 281 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:19,639 Speaker 1: a physically suffocated child. Atop the rickety table glows a 282 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 1: stump of paraffin in the neck of a bottle streaked 283 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: with dense droplets of melted fuel. Without realizing that his 284 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: wife has not understood him, one yells an air of 285 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: prosperity and liberty is opened before the Mexican people. Long 286 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: Live Caranza Yosepha opens her eyes insolently decidedly. She does 287 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: not comprehend what relation could obtain between the exultation of 288 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: an individual to power and the death of misery. She 289 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 1: submerges herself in profound reflections until a Laos, perhaps the 290 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:54,360 Speaker 1: hungriest among the innumerable ones that populate her head, jabs 291 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: her terribly and returns her to reality. She scratches furiously 292 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: eagerly for Nettek. At the same time, with a voice 293 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:06,160 Speaker 1: enfeebled from prolonged periods of fasting, she says to her husband, 294 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: could you tell me one, what are the poor going 295 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:14,959 Speaker 1: to gain? When Kranza assents to the presidency? Come on, Yosepha, 296 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: do you still not understand these things? We are going 297 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:21,479 Speaker 1: to gain laws that benefit the worker, the ones we 298 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: have favor the agricultural workers. We are going to receive 299 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: lands from the hands of the government. Finally, we are 300 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,679 Speaker 1: going to enjoy liberty and well being. The outline of 301 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: a grin forms on Josepha's lips, expressing the bitterness in 302 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: her heart. Although poor, she has had the opportunity to 303 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,199 Speaker 1: read something about the history of Mexico. She remembers that 304 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:46,159 Speaker 1: all the presidents, before reaching a high position, swore thousands 305 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 1: and thousands of times to dedicate all their concerns to 306 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:52,239 Speaker 1: the well being of the people. This was offered by 307 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 1: the proclamations of Enterbe, the manifestos of Bustamente, the edicts 308 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 1: of Santa Anna, and the proclamations, Manifesto, songs and circulars 309 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: of Zoolaga and Commandfort of Gonzales and of Diaz in 310 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: a word of everyone, including Madero, all vowed to make 311 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,640 Speaker 1: the people happy, and the people were disgraced under all 312 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 1: of them. A bedbug walks slowly along the wall, as 313 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: if killing time by going out for a stroll, while 314 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: the poor people, the victims of the capitalist system, decide 315 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: to go to bed. Josepha sees it, and, with a 316 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,439 Speaker 1: prowess that demonstrates a great deal of practice, smears it 317 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: with the tip of her toe, leaving a bright red 318 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,679 Speaker 1: footprint on the wall. The miserable woman casts an almost 319 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: sympathetic glance at her husband, a glance that appears to say, 320 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: poor slave, when will you open your eyes? Wan is 321 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 1: radiant with joy and shaking. The newspaper overhead exclaims this 322 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 1: a constitutional order. Respected individuals guarantee the prerogatives of citizenship 323 00:20:54,520 --> 00:21:00,879 Speaker 1: without bonds, impartial administrative justice, free suffrage, no reelection honor 324 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 1: among public functionaries. What more could you want, my wife? 325 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: Why do you make your face look so sorrowful? Yosepha replies, 326 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: this is all a very lovely dream. But what about 327 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 1: the bread? Who will give us bread? Ha haha? For 328 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 1: that I have arms, Wan says, laughing. He adds, only 329 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 1: the lazy will die of hunger. Discouraged, Yosepha lets her 330 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 1: arms drop decidedly. She thinks Wan is a perfect sheep. 331 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: Various louse bites make her scratch herself desperately until she 332 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: begins to spout blood. Suddenly, peals are heard. It is 333 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 1: the church bells of the parish of Santa Anna, drifting 334 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: from Teesalala. Comes the rumble of cries, the clatter of firecrackers, 335 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,399 Speaker 1: the peal of all the church bells that every temple 336 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 1: emitted in turn, mixed with the triumphant notes of a 337 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 1: military band playing a two step. The noise winds up, 338 00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 1: making Wan enthusiastic to the point of delirium. Taking off 339 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 1: his hat, he marches out to the street to give 340 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: free rein to his exultation, crying at the top of 341 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: his voice, Long Live Karanza. It is the supporters of Karanza, 342 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: who are celebrating the recognition of Karanza's government extended by 343 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: foreign governments and the capitalists they represent. A month has passed. 344 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: One works, but his situation does not change. His miserable 345 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: salary is just barely enough to prevent himself, Yosepha and 346 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 1: his young son from materially dying of hunger. The room 347 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 1: still contains the same broken windows, the same miserable bed 348 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 1: with its maps, the poor table that they still have 349 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 1: not been able to replace. In the brazier, they still 350 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: cannot cook a decent soup. Pieces of carbon cost too 351 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 1: much as if they were made of gold. The many 352 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: bloody grooves in the walls indicate that the bedbugs still 353 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: have not abandoned their habit of going for a walk 354 00:22:54,560 --> 00:23:00,080 Speaker 1: before eating. The louses extract the fire from the poor Yosepha, 355 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 1: how much have we gained from the elevation of Kranza, Truly, 356 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: my beloved wan Yosepha said with a certain sneer. One 357 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 1: scratches his head, Tormented by the louses and by the 358 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: deception he believed that Koranza's ascendence to power would ensure 359 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:19,439 Speaker 1: abundance in the home. Nevertheless, he cannot accept defeat. He exclaims, 360 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: it is impossible that a government could make the people 361 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,160 Speaker 1: happy in just one month. Let's give them some time 362 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 1: so that they can implement the reforms that will benefit 363 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:32,360 Speaker 1: the masses. Then we will see. A year has passed. 364 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: The conditions of Juan's life are the same as before. Certainly, 365 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: the salaries are now greater. However, the owner of the 366 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 1: house has increased the rents of the rooms. The merchants 367 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 1: have raised the prices of many primary necessities clothes. They're 368 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: more expensive now than they were before. Now he works 369 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: no more than eight hours a day. However, in the 370 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,399 Speaker 1: end he has to do the same, exactly the same 371 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 1: as he did before in twelve, fourteen and even sixteen hours. 372 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 1: Yosepha has a copy of Regeneration hands. She reads it 373 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 1: with marked interest, abandoning the reading for moments only when 374 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 1: the pokings of the parasite make the intervention of her 375 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: fingernails absolutely indispensable. One paces back and forth around the room, 376 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: visibly agitated. He holds a red booklet in his hand, 377 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: whose color is the only joyous tone in this dark 378 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 1: well of misery, filth, and sadness. It is the manifesto 379 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: of September twenty third, nineteen eleven. Suddenly one interrupts his 380 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: pacing and slapping his forehead, exclaims, what a blockhead I've been, 381 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: And along with me, all the workers who supported Caranza, 382 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: we live here in misery and the ultimate misery, even 383 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: though we break our backs in work, just like we 384 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 1: did before we elevated that old scoundrel to power. Those 385 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:50,360 Speaker 1: redistributions of land wound up being the crudest deceptions. One 386 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 1: has to bribe officials to get anything. The laws that 387 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: supposedly protect the worker are actually written to protect capital. 388 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 1: The bourgeoisie contrived to retrieve everything they had lost to 389 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: us in a cunning manner. The concessions they made in 390 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 1: their constitutional orders do not profit poor people. We continue 391 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 1: to be in virtue of our miserable poverty, the same 392 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 1: pariahs as before. Death to Caranza, Death to all government, 393 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 1: yells Yosepha, shaking the issue of regeneration in her hand 394 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 1: like a flag. Long live anarchy, one yells, shaking the 395 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: red booklet, whose pages spout the freshness of youth, the 396 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 1: exultations of spring, the balm of hope, and the rays 397 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 1: of the sun. For all who suffer for all who breathe, 398 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: for all who drag their existence along the black abyss 399 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: of slavery and tyranny. For the first time, the sordid 400 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: room is ennobled, for it serves as the haven of 401 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 1: a pair of lions and a cub. Several days past, 402 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 1: the barricades of Mexico City present a formidable front. The 403 00:25:55,520 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: united neighborhoods of Merced, Curtados and Manzanadas have erected barricade 404 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 1: in two hours. Men, women, elders, and children, and even 405 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 1: some disabled people have taken part in the work. The 406 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: ugly edifice of the Merced Market has provided most of 407 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: the material behind the barricade. Bristles, a sea of palm hats, 408 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: the leather sandals, and the crude shoes of the defenders 409 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,640 Speaker 1: tread the black land energetically, now proud to serve as 410 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,639 Speaker 1: pedestals for a band of heroes. For many moments they 411 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 1: await the attack of government forces. Everything is activity behind 412 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: the barricade. The women dig trenches, the men wash their rifles, 413 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 1: the children distribute outfits to those champions of the proletariat. 414 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: A red flag showing in white letters the inscription Land 415 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: and Liberty smiles to the sun at the top of 416 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 1: the barricade, sending its salute to all the disinherited of 417 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 1: the earth. From its peak, the proletariat of Capital is 418 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: up in arms against Capital, the government and the Church. 419 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: The proletarians of Rostro and San Antonio abad do not 420 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: display any less activity. The butchers sharpen their knives, testing 421 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 1: them with the tips of their thumbs. The streets adjacent 422 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: to Rostro and the factory of Jlados and Tahitos are 423 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: stripped of pavement. All the materials have been converted into 424 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 1: resources for the construction of the barricade. Tables, pottery, pianos, clothing, 425 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: mattresses all have been brought down in a horribly confusing 426 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,439 Speaker 1: heap of objects, serving to shield the noble bosoms of 427 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: its defenders. Blen and Solto de Laguo, San Cosme and 428 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: Santa Maria de le Rivara, San Lazzaro and San Antonio, 429 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:43,679 Speaker 1: Tomotlan La Bolsa and Tapito, San Juan Nuolaco, Santa Maria 430 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 1: de Loredonda La Laguina. All of the various districts of 431 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: the populous city have vacated their neighborhoods. In their dwellings 432 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 1: Emboldened by the revolutionary fire, they prepare to resist the 433 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: attack of the military officers supporting Caranza. The barricades sprung 434 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 1: forth from the land, and an opening and closing of eyes. 435 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 1: The barricades of Saint Lauranzo and San Antonio Tomatlan shows 436 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,880 Speaker 1: upon its summit a singular flag. It is an old 437 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: petticoat torn and grimy. It is the flag of misery. 438 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,119 Speaker 1: It is the brave rag defining the world of oppression 439 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 1: and privilege. As long as the tatters are not detached 440 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: from the proletariat's bodies, the master remains tranquil. When it 441 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: appears attached to the top of a staff, the world trembles. 442 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,320 Speaker 1: Whereas all the barricades are filled with enthusiasm, nothing surmounts 443 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 1: the activity, enthusiasm, audacity, and revolutionary zeal. In the united 444 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: barricade of the neighborhoods of Peravio, Santa Anna and tessant 445 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: aale Juan and Josepha do not rest for a moment. 446 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 1: Blackened with powder, they look very beautiful, sweating, panting, crossing 447 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: to and fro in the barricade, communicating energy and enthusiasm 448 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:02,240 Speaker 1: to its defenders. Suddenly, a formidable clamor, followed by rifle 449 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: shots and bugle blasts can be heard from the direction 450 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: of Concepsion Tekipihuka. It is our comrades from bolsa and 451 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: torpedo fighting. Juan cries, tossing his hat into the air. 452 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: A few minutes later, the air resounds with the roar 453 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: of cannons, the racket of rifle shots, the beating of 454 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 1: the drums, the angry cries of the bugle, the martial 455 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: airs of the military bands. They are all jumbled together 456 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 1: in one singular, thunderous crack. Throughout the entire city. All 457 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 1: the barricades were being attacked simultaneously by Caranza's forces. Juan 458 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 1: and Josepha climb to the height of the barricade, where 459 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 1: they see a dense column of Kranza supporters approaching the 460 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 1: streets of Santo Domingo on foot. Finally, the enemy is 461 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 1: closing in comrades. They yell at the same time, everybody, 462 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: choose the place that best suits you to defend our bastion. 463 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 1: In an instant, the barricade is crowned with rifles. The 464 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: enemy places two cannons at the base of Santa Katarina 465 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 1: Imoras Street, while part of the ca continues advancing toward 466 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: the barricade, which is situated at the base of the street. 467 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 1: An imperious voice emerges from the column when it is 468 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: one hundred paces away from the barricade. In the name 469 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 1: of the Supreme Government. Give yourselves up, it says, long 470 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 1: live land and liberty. The defenders of the barricade answer. 471 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: Rifle shots follow rapidly from both sides. The cannons direct 472 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 1: their projectiles against the center of the barricade in order 473 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: to open a breach. The smoke saturates the atmosphere until 474 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: it becomes unbreathable. The attack is furious, the resistance formidable. 475 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 1: Quranza's officers accompany their shots with abuse of words. The 476 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: proletarian defenders of the barricade sing, child of the people, 477 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: shackles constrict you. But this injustice cannot continue if your 478 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: existence is filled with pain, rather than being a slave, 479 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 1: prefer to die. Broadcasts to the four winds, like an 480 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 1: invitation made to dignity and honor. Are the notes of 481 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 1: this magnificent hymn, Of this hymn common to all the 482 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: downtrodden of the world, Of this hymn that condenses all 483 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 1: the bitter martyrdoms of the people and the anguish of 484 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: its saints who long for redemption of this hymn that 485 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 1: is simultaneously a complaint, a protest, and a threat. The 486 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 1: following day, the proletarians of Mexico City celebrate the triumph 487 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 1: of the social revolution. The capitalist system has died the end, 488 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 1: and like, yeah, what a not subtle peace, you know, 489 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 1: but it's just direct. It's just like this man has 490 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: fought in this. You know. This is several years after 491 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 1: the uprising failed, and so there's this kind of like 492 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 1: it's almost like fan fiction for your own revolution, like 493 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: rewriting it in some ways, or rather saying like, this 494 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,080 Speaker 1: is how it can be reborn and continue to be fought, 495 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,760 Speaker 1: you know. And it didn't, but it actually could have. 496 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 1: That is a thing that has happened time and time again. 497 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's interesting, yeah, because it's such a 498 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: blunt piece and doesn't match modern conceptions of how one 499 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 1: writes political literature. But there's just something to it, and 500 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: I want to reread one of the lines, the Barricades 501 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: of San Lorenzo and San Antonio. Tomultan shows upon its 502 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 1: summit a singular flag. It is an old petticoat, torn 503 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 1: and grimy. It is the flag of misery. It is 504 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: the brave rag defying the world of oppression and privilege. 505 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 1: As long as the tatters are not detached from the 506 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: proletariat's body, the master remains tranquil. When it appears attached 507 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: to the top of a staff, the world trembles. I 508 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 1: don't know, I feel like that's where I'll leave it. 509 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: I'll be back next week with more of this stuff, 510 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 1: and if you want to hear more about some amazing 511 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 1: uprisings that happen in Mexico a little bit later. 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