Miguel Enríquez, el MIR, la revolución armada, el amor revolucionario...

La sociedad de la Igualdad

Francisco Bilbao

Do you recognize the sovereignty of the reason as authority of authorities?
Do you recognize the sovereignty of the people as base of all politics? 
Do you recognize the love and universal brotherhood as moral life?.

"La Sociedad de la Igualdad" (The society of the Equality) was a political Chilean organization founded by the intellectuals Francisco Bilbao y Santiago Arcos in 1850, during the conservative Republic initiated in 1831.

The Society of Equality raised the need of a revolutionary transformation of the society that would give beginning to a nation of free and equal men. They  attempted to mobilize artisans and the popular sectors. This Society was influenced by the ideals of the French revolution and the Utopian Socialism.

The utopian socialism was born in europe in the lates 1700 and earlies 1800. It emerges with the industrial revolution as a response to the miseries that the insdustry and urbanitation brought. The best known utopian (intellectuals from the bourgeoisie) were Saint Simon, Fourier and Owen, none of them proposed to emancipate a class but the whole humanity.

The historian Julio Godio says that the fact was that the utopic socialism in latinamerica acted a lot of times as a substitute of a consistent bourgeois liberal ideology and, under the wrapper of a generically socialist ideology, a democratic strategy was formulated. In spite of this, the Utopian socialism would have sowed in latinoamerica the seed of this new socialist ideology, which hereinafter would be defined by the "anarcosindicalismo" and the Marxist socialism.

"My favourite piece of technology"

I'm going to talk about my computer, because, actually I'm not sure of loving technology, but my notebook is almost the only piece of technology I use. Sometimes I miss an Mp3 or something to hear music, but -although it sounds a bit stupid- when I was at school someone stole my mp3, and after that I never became to buy another mp3.
I have this computer since 3 and a little more years ago. I needed it because before having it I used to share the house computer with my younger brothers, and in "hight school" I started to need more and more the computer to do my  homework, been conecting with people, boyfriend and that kind of stuff.

When I talk about the computer, basically I mean the internet. I don't like that now everything depends on online communication, university homework, university official information, conversations, etc. Sometimes I think that the nineties had many good things.

We agree that the computer has many good things, such as the spread of information and unofficial news, social networks, which allows to unite people in a world so fragmented, but there're certain myths about internet that I think should be taken down, par exemple, the fact that internet facilitates easy access to information, sometimes internet information  becomes lush and confused, and for trying to achieve everything, you learn just a little.

If I didn't have my computer, everything would be a bit chaotic, more than it already is with the computer, because, as I said recently, everything turns around technology, and emails and computers ...

Dogs created by the evilness...

Today I'm able to talk about anything. So, It isn't that I'm a dog fan, but I've been thinking about this topic after having been with a 'Brazilian Fila' (or a Brazilian Mastiff), an enormous dog, in a birthday of a friend.

In the slavery brazil, the Brazillian Mastiff was used to return fugitives unharmed to their slave masters. The Fila Brasileiro is a descendant of the 15th-century English mastiff, bloodhound, bulldog and rafeiros. They were taught to chase down jaguars, cattle, and other animals, as well as runaway slaves. In what I read, these dogs would grab the slave or animals by the neck and hold them until the farmer arrived, this instinct can be observed among puppies when they're playing.

Owing to its size, temperament and potential for aggresion, the Brazilian Mastiff has been banned in many countries. 

Brazilian Fila

A brazilian "quilombo", where fugitives slaves used to scape.

Stalin

Stalin's Dog

When I was researching this topic, I came across another specimen: 'Stalin's dog' or Black Russian Terrier. This breed of dog, was developed to serve as guard and police dog.

These dogs are known as "Stalin dogs" because, Stalin had ordered that Russian terriers were bred to monitor the detainees of the camps of Siberia.
The 'RBT' was developed by Soviet Geneticists at the end of second World War as a service dog used to guard military installations and borders.

Scary, don't you think?