Jacobo Árbenz, born on this day in 1913, was a Guatemalan President who earned the ire of the United Fruit Company, the largest private landowner in the country, by instituting widespread land reforms. He was ousted in a U.S-backed coup in 1954.
Árbenz served as the Minister of National Defense from 1944 to 1951 and the second democratically elected President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954. He was a major figure in the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution, which represented some of the few years of representative democracy in Guatemalan history.
Árbenz instituted many popular reforms, including an expanded right to vote, the right of workers to organize, legitimizing political parties, and allowing public debate.
The centerpiece of Árbenz’ policy was an agrarian reform law, under which uncultivated portions of large land-holdings were expropriated in return for compensation and redistributed to poverty-stricken agricultural laborers. Approximately 500,000 people benefited from the decree, the majority of them indigenous people whose forebears had been dispossessed after the Spanish invasion.
Opposition to these policies led the United Fruit Company to lobby the U.S. government to have him overthrown. The U.S. was also concerned by the presence of communists in the Guatemalan government, and Árbenz was ousted in a coup d’état engineered by the U.S. government on June 27th, 1954.
“Our only crime consisted of decreeing our own laws and applying them to all without exception. Our crime is having enacted an agrarian reform which effected the interests of the United Fruit Company. Our crime is wanting to have our own route to the Atlantic, our own electric power and our own docks and ports. Our crime is our patriotic wish to advance, to progress, to win economic independence to match our political independence. We are condemned because we have given our peasant population land and rights.”
- Jacobo Árbenz
Jacobo Árbenz, “Árbenz’s Resignation Speech” (1954)
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen Kinzer
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As I get older the stupidest things cause my body to rebel against me. I ran over 100 miles last month with zero problems, but a 2 hour drive has my knees and back screaming at me.
There are decades where no aging happens; and there are weeks where decades of aging happen
I would wonder if running didn’t precipitate the vulnerability to sitting. I had a sprained neck from a simple headbutt, but my neck was vulnerable because of posture, lack of stretching, etc. If you want to look through my eyes for a new perspective, I think 100 miles is a ton and maybe you just didn’t feel the vulnerability that was waiting to express itself and therefore there are precautions you can take like ice, compression, and stretching even before you feel bad next time.
Wow, Ayn Rand was an idiot
Yup. Very literate, but dumb as a brick. Even while she was dying alone in poverty on a government pension she never recanted “I got mine fuck you” the religion. There’s a running joke that the biggest failure of communism was giving Rand a university education. The Berlin Wall was actually erected to prevent another Rand incident and keep the Eastern Blocs shitty reactionary novelists in the Eastern Bloc where they’d be less likely to publish. not as some kind of propaganda effort or anything. It was just a humanitarian act of good will so no one would ever have to read an absolutely dogshit novel like Atlas Shrugged again.
Big fan of this section on the “Objectivism” wikipedia page:
Academic philosophers have generally paid little attention to or dismissed Rand’s philosophy, although a smaller number of academics do support it. Nonetheless, Objectivism has been a persistent influence among right-libertarians and American conservatives. The Objectivist movement, which Rand founded, attempts to spread her ideas to the public and in academic settings.
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One Rand biographer says most people who read Rand’s works for the first time do it in their “formative years”.
Very polite way to say the only people who unironically support Rand are edgy teenagers.
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
- John Rogers
The Objectivist movement, which Rand founded, attempts to spread her ideas to the public and in academic settings.
I wonder how much they charge their audience for their events and their information.
They wouldn’t be doing it free of charge, with the intent that promoting objectivism would be of benefit to all society now, would they? 🤔🤔
The delusion of denying one’s own irrationality is something you’d think everyone would grow out of eventually.
Dunno how well versed you are with the topic, am I understanding correctly that Rand believed that our perception of reality is objective? Was she denying that people perceive the world differently?
am I understanding correctly that Rand believed that our perception of reality is objective?
I think she was just a selfish idiot. Her thought isn’t worth analyzing. It’s basically just “Being a selfish prick is a moral virtue”. It’s only worth worrying about if you’re trying to understand why in the US are the way they are. Like it’s a historical curiosity because it influenced so many extremely shitty people who don’t understand economics, but aside from that skip it.
America is such a batshit crazy country. Most of the republican candidates want to defund/shut down the department of education. Just one step removed from “I will reduce literacy rates”.
I don’t think even the most neolib politician outside the U.S. would/could use that to get votes even if thats whats actually going to happen.
They’ve whipped up the hogs to believe that the school system is re-programming their kids in to gay democratic communists. Idk how much actual traction it has outside the most rarefied and refined fascist weirdos, though. Libraries and schools are actually pretty popular with normal people. It’s a small but very belligerent and aggressive fascist vanguard that’s getting a lot of traction shutting them down through just out and out bullying.
Oh my, there’s actually a light at the end of the tunnel in terms of finishing my dissertation! I might actually fucking graduate with a PhD! I can’t believe it. I’ve been fighting myself on this for so long it’s hard to believe it’s actually starting to fall into place. I still have dozens of hours of work, and I haven’t even thought about my defense or getting a committee together, but we’re getting there damn it! One step at a time. I can do this.
Same
Fighting the 3pm motivation minimum though
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