Sublime

The idea of freedom ‘thus degenerates into a mere advocacy of free enterprise’, which means ‘the fullness of freedom for those whose income, leisure and security need no enhancing, and a mere pittance of liberty for the people, who may in vain attempt to make use of their democratic rights to gain shelter from the power of the owners of property’.

The men who signed the Declaration of Independence were part of the generation that lived through the Seven Years’ War.

Selon Hannah Arendt, ce qui caractérise la révolution américaine, c’est le projet de réalisation d’un ordre politique fondé sur la liberté, alors que la persistance de l’esclavage noir renvoie à une tradition culturelle présente de façon homogène des deux côtés de l’Atlantique : « Cette indifférence, que nous avons du mal à comprendre, n’était pas

John Dewey and Paulo Freire in articulating the interrelation of politics and education.

World War II spurred a worldwide rebellion against empire. The revolt started in Asia but spread quickly to Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. In a shockingly short period of time, colonized peoples dismantled the world’s great empires. In 1940 nearly one out of every three individuals on the planet was colonized. By 1965, it was down to o

In the post-war period, much of the non-communist world was opened up to US domination by tactics of this sort. This became the method of choice to fight off the threat of communist insurgencies and revolution, entailing an anti-democratic (and even more emphatically anti-populist and anti-socialist/communist) strategy on the part of the US that pu

In 2000, the massive Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York was dedicated to Albizu. Hundreds of thousands marched in it, including Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani.