10 janv. 2022

[PWR] Shifting valuation, political revolutions and their appraisal


< Because no event has one meaning, my friend. So it's not just that the analysis of Revolution is usually misguided in terms of practical goals, cultural conditions and material requisites – I mean, it usually is –, the real hurdle is more like being able to read inside the mayhem of who is going to appreciate what in the end and why, so what goes on with the drift of values themselves, and therefore, the establishment of hidden meta-values, how revolutionary actors inevitably change positions and interests in their partial success, with the partial return of old structures, and so on... >

— Val, jokingly explaining to me how and why the Third Covenant Revolutionary Front had to be dissolved in order to succeed in the end, on Zoom, 2020

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