Re: Update on Colombia

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Thanks Anthony. I am not sure what you mean by a patrimonial house in this
case. Could you explain? Anthony Boynton (a pen name for Ted Z.)


On Sun, Jul 26, 2026 at 6:20=E2=80=AFPM Anthony Teso via groups.io <anthony=
.p.teso=3D
[email protected]> wrote:

> Ted Zuur=E2=80=99s report on the Colombian election, published at *New Po=
litics*
> and reprinted at LINKS and *Against the Current*, is the most useful
> account of the crisis yet to appear in our press, and this essay depends =
on
> it throughout. [1] <#m_-7265918358223786120__ftn1> Its virtues are the
> virtues of the tradition it comes from. Zuur keeps two questions separate
> that the solidarity literature habitually fuses: whether the count was
> stolen and what the class map of the country shows regardless of the coun=
t.
> His answer to the second question is the durable finding. Whatever the
> courts decide, Colombia now contains a near-mass party of the working cla=
ss
> and the oppressed, with 12.7 million votes, facing a recomposed dynastic
> right preparing to govern by decree. I want to press that finding harder
> than Zuur does. The government arriving on August 7 is best understood as=
 a
> patrimonial house wearing a Bonapartist mask, and the mask does not yet
> fit. And the response of the Colombian left, so far, fails the test Hal
> Draper made the axis of the whole socialist question: self-emancipation. =
It
> fails in a specific way. The way is correctable.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> [1] <#m_-7265918358223786120__ftnref1>Ted Zuur, =E2=80=9CElectoral Setbac=
k in
> Colombia Opens a New Phase of Struggle,=E2=80=9D *New Politics*, July 202=
6,
> reprinted at LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, July 18,
> 2026, and as =E2=80=9CColombia and Latin America: A New Stage of the Stru=
ggle,=E2=80=9D *Against
> the Current*, July 2026. All quotations from and factual attributions to
> Zuur refer to this article.
>
> The_Household_and_the_Chorus.docx
> <https://1drv.ms/w/c/c3598b38f68269be/IQCwsIhUK7eMQ6V_isimjJ1ZAREo4RMgJnw=
J4GshT8W6tAg?e=3DBEIfMj>
> Tony
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>
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:times ne=
w roman,serif;font-size:large">Thanks Anthony. I am not sure what you mean =
by a patrimonial=C2=A0house in this case. Could you explain? Anthony Boynto=
n (a pen name for Ted Z.)</div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-f=
amily:times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><br></div></div><br><div class=
=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr=
">On Sun, Jul 26, 2026 at 6:20=E2=80=AFPM Anthony Teso via <a href=3D"http:=
//groups.io">groups.io</a> &lt;anthony.p.teso=3D<a href=3D"mailto:gmail.com=
@groups.io">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=
=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rg=
b(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
<p style=3D"text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:200%">Ted Zuur=
=E2=80=99s report on the Colombian election, published at <em>New Politics<=
/em> and reprinted at LINKS and <em>Against the Current</em>, is the most u=
seful account of the crisis yet to appear in our press, and this essay depe=
nds on it throughout. <a href=3D"#m_-7265918358223786120__ftn1" name=3D"m_-=
7265918358223786120__ftnref1" title=3D""><span><span><span><span style=3D"f=
ont-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">[1]</span></sp=
an></span></span></a> Its virtues are the virtues of the tradition it comes=
 from. Zuur keeps two questions separate that the solidarity literature hab=
itually fuses: whether the count was stolen and what the class map of the c=
ountry shows regardless of the count. His answer to the second question is =
the durable finding. Whatever the courts decide, Colombia now contains a ne=
ar-mass party of the working class and the oppressed, with 12.7 million vot=
es, facing a recomposed dynastic right preparing to govern by decree. I wan=
t to press that finding harder than Zuur does. The government arriving on A=
ugust 7 is best understood as a patrimonial house wearing a Bonapartist mas=
k, and the mask does not yet fit. And the response of the Colombian left, s=
o far, fails the test Hal Draper made the axis of the whole socialist quest=
ion: self-emancipation. It fails in a specific way. The way is correctable.=
</p>
<div><br clear=3D"all"><hr align=3D"left" size=3D"1" width=3D"33%">
<div id=3D"m_-7265918358223786120ftn1">
<p style=3D"text-align:justify"><a href=3D"#m_-7265918358223786120__ftnref1=
" name=3D"m_-7265918358223786120__ftn1" title=3D""><span><span><span><span =
style=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">[1]<=
/span></span></span></span></a><span style=3D"font-size:10pt">Ted Zuur, =E2=
=80=9CElectoral Setback in Colombia Opens a New Phase of Struggle,=E2=80=9D=
 <em>New Politics</em>, July 2026, reprinted at LINKS International Journal=
 of Socialist Renewal, July 18, 2026, and as =E2=80=9CColombia and Latin Am=
erica: A New Stage of the Struggle,=E2=80=9D <em>Against the Current</em>, =
July 2026. All quotations from and factual attributions to Zuur refer to th=
is article.<br><br><a href=3D"https://1drv.ms/w/c/c3598b38f68269be/IQCwsIhU=
K7eMQ6V_isimjJ1ZAREo4RMgJnwJ4GshT8W6tAg?e=3DBEIfMj" target=3D"_blank">The_H=
ousehold_and_the_Chorus.docx</a><br></span></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>Tony</div>




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