Dolores Cacuango, also known as Mamá Doloreyuk, was a leader in the fight for indigenous rights in Ecuador born on this day in 1881. She was active in the Glorious May Revolution of 1944 and co-founded the Indigenous Federation of Ecuador (FEI).
Cacuango was born to enslaved people in San Pablourco who worked the Pesillo Hacienda near Cayambe without being paid. She had no access to education due to her lack of resources, and learned Spanish while working as a housemaid.
In 1930, Cacuango was among the leaders of the historic workers' strike at the Pesillo hacienda in Cayambe, which was a milestone for indigenous and peasant rights. During the Glorious May Revolution in Ecuador, Cacuango personally led an assault on a government military base.
The same year, with the help of Ecuador's Communist Party, Cacuango co-founded the Indigenous Federation of Ecuador (FEI), an early group in the fight for indigenous rights. She also helped establish some of the first bilingual indigenous schools.
Dolores Cacuango, la rebelde líder indígena ecuatoriana que luchó por la educación y la tierra
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Do you reckon it'd be possible to completely eradicate reactionary views or will there always be small groups of people that hold fascist views even under communism?
The way I see it, reactionary and fascist views are both natural ways humans think, enabled by environment and circumstances, and while I think they can be greatly diminished, they can never be truly "eradicated".
Some people will always want to have more than others, they will always make up excuses why they deserve more than others. That is, in my mind, the core of fascism, and while you can combat it, it will never truly go away, just like how communist thought was never truly eradicated under fascism. Because communist thought is similarly fundamental, being based on the simple idea that nobody should have more than others.
If all communists were killed today and all literature burned, it would simply be reinvented because the principles it's based on are that fundamental and natural. Someone, at some point, would think "hey, i think it would be fairer if we treated people more equally" and the ideology would develop itself from there as people try to figure out how equal treatment could and should be done.
Similarly, if you killed all fascists today and burned all "fascist literature", the core of the ideology would be reinvented the moment you have a man and his wife in a room, the man realizes that he has a certain individual power over her because he is physically stronger and so in direct conflict situations the woman is more likely to give in to avoid potential harm, and then the man starts making up justifications for why this is actually totally fair because he enjoys the privileged position in their dynamic.
Fascism cannot really be eradicated because to some extent, it's natural to enjoy individual power, to want to be at the top of a hierarchy, to feel "better" than others. We all have elements of this inside us and there will always be people who fully embrace them, who will convince themselves that their individual power is justified for one reason or another and who will designate an "other" to subjugate, expropriate or expel.
So what you're saying is that inside me are two wolves?
Yes
