The Archives of Cuba

Valle Inclán lo explicó en los versos modernistas de La marquesa Rosalinda. A diferencia de Francia, aquí no volaban libremente tras los boscajes, ni furtivos besos del Trianón, ni las ideas de Voltaire y Rousseau: con los ramajes de los boscajes, aquí hacía hogueras la Inquisición. El atraso económico, a pesar del imperio, y la intolerancia, crearon condiciones extremas para que las luces arraigaran en España y no obstante el esfuerzo de reforma del absolutismo ilustrado hizo posible esa tarea casi heroica. Una minoría intelectual encontró una estructura de oportunidad en la...

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

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De la democracia, sin duda, se puede decir cualquier cosa... La versión dominante en la actual condición de época (pos)moderna es efecto de su devenir histórico. Debilitarla, preservarla tal cual es o radicalizarla depende, sobre todo, de las luchas que estemos dispuestos (o no) a librar. Si esto es así, tenemos y tendremos la democracia que cada uno y entre todos queramos o cedamos...