A Decade of Revolution in Cuba (LAST100 wk 10a)
Channel: UBC Latin American Studies
Date: 2020-10-15

Different political imaginaries are distinguished, among other ways, by the kinds of subject or agent that they produce or project. In less industrialized societies, where the proletariat is neither numerically large nor politically significant, revolutionary Marxism runs up against a problem: without sufficient gravediggers, who gives capitalism the burial it deserves?

Che Guevara outlines the birth of a new subject, the “new man.” This is for the most part a future subject, whose arrival is still to come; this is a “21st Century Man,” who will put behind him the “decadent and morbid” twentieth century. Indeed, there is something messianic about this figure, who will one day redeem a fallen history.

0:00 Intro
0:21 Recap
1:47 Peronism and its Discontents
5:06 Che Guevara
8:30 The New Man
11:24 Break and Questions
15:58 Credits

Transcript https://last100.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2020/10/10a.decade-revolution.pdf

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Video by Jon Beasley-Murray for the University of British Columbia course, LAST100, "Introduction to Latin American Studies." See https://last100.arts.ubc.ca/syllabus/week-10a/.

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