Image: Lainie Cassel, http://caracazomedia.org/
“The desperately poor ‘swarm[ed] into the forbidden cities’, as Fanon once put it, reuniting a segregated landscape if only momentarily, and in their looting of both necessities and luxuries, revealed the two-sided nature Marx associated with the commodity as well as their own intransigent demand that the last would soon be first.
Instead of one Venezuela, there were suddenly two, and the previously frozen dialectic of history was forced into motion in an instant, unleashing everything that has come since.” - George Ciccariello-Maher
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