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🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In episode 2 of @spaceprole's side project on contemporary and historical political issues in Latin America. This month we have Camilo Gómez, a Peruvian writer with bylines at Counterpunch and the Center for a Stateless Society, and the host of the History and Politics podcast.
Listen to the full podcast at https://www.patreon.com/theantifada
We discuss how the lavajato spilled into Peru, making anti-corruption a focus of the upcoming legislative elections. Gomez goes into details on the 3-4 currents of the divided Peruvian left, before going into a history of the armed struggle movement that culminated in the Shining Path. We talk about a couple other idiosyncratic Peruvian tendencies, like the Trotskyist ecosocialism of ex-Posadist Hugo Blanco and the UFO leftism of Alfa y Omega.
Finally we talk about "market socialism" in the Peruvian context and have a little debate over whether markets are ever something worth defending.
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| 0:00.0 | The very informal economy, so there is a lot of countereconomy. |
| 0:07.0 | So there is a lot of people selling a t-shirts for nigh or adidas |
| 0:17.8 | but that are fake or there is a lot of selling |
| 0:22.0 | of... a lot of selling of of of of of DVDs and of the |
| 0:27.0 | of DVD copies and things I had so the economy is very |
| 0:30.2 | informal in general and and that is very curious in very |
| 0:34.3 | in general and and that is very curious in many ways it has developed a very different conscious that in our |
| 0:39.8 | countries because people are not necessarily consider, many of them consider themselves workers |
| 0:45.5 | but at the same time they don't have unions or the kind of organizations that exist in our |
| 0:50.5 | countries. |
| 0:51.5 | And so do you think that because so much of the economy in Peru is informal, |
| 0:56.9 | not just in terms of knock-off goods or that kind of thing, |
| 1:00.7 | but also going back to indigenous markets there's still very much |
| 1:05.2 | that culture of that's where you get your your food and your clothes do you think |
| 1:09.4 | there's always been a tension there between the modernizing forces of the Peruvian |
| 1:12.8 | government and this massive informal economy? There is a strong tension between like the |
| 1:21.6 | street sellers and the government because in some areas of particular Lima which is the largest city in in Peru |
| 1:30.3 | like the street sellers have taken all over the streets and in some cases even the |
| 1:35.8 | it is I think that there is some attempts of modernizing the the |
| 1:40.3 | Peru and state but that also require formalizing the economy and people don't want to pay taxes because Peru is pretty corrupt. |
| 1:47.4 | So there is a historian, a Trotsky historian, it was called of of Poons of Euros. |
| 1:53.0 | He died some years ago, but he had a bird who was quite mainstream, |
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