Bolivia- Three Thoughts
0) I was a kid of the End of History. I grew up with the notion and conviction that there is no future, or better: that any future will look just like the late 90s or early 2000s. Years before the crisis of 2007/8, capitalism appeared as the uncontested and uncontestable victor of history, and thus, when I finally at the tender age of 15 started reading Marx, Engels, Lenin and others, this was nothing but an awkward and ridiculous form of rebellion: Communism? An anachronistic survivor of a past age, to which only some outlandish freaks, elderly people from the east and Fidel Castro stick!. I remember very well how even mentioning the term 'capitalism' in school gave you the looks (of my boring and rather simple classmates and my boring and rather simple teachers); it appeared to them, I assume, as a freakish, ideological term coined by some Marxists from back then, when people not understood that "market economy" is just a natural and begning thing. W...