No. 5: May./Aug. 2021 - Revolution and Counterrevolution

We arrived at the fifth edition of the Revista Fim do Mundo, still in the midst of the struggle for survival in the face of the greatest social and health crisis in the history of humanity. The dilemmas of a year and a half of pandemic subjected workers to the razor's edge of their capacity for social reproduction, bringing to light, more than ever, the emergence of organizing a profound transformation in the predominant way of life, in order to overcome the domain of capital. The revolution was a way invented by humanity to get rid of oppression, especially that which emanates from the restriction of freedom in its multiple existential dimensions of life. As an emancipatory ideal, the revolution also presupposes its constant practice, in which the present stages of consolidation pave the way for future, higher levels of the encounter between the human being and itself. A revolution whose roots can only be reached with sufficient strength to break the shackles that block real human demands for emancipation, as Marx himself teaches us: “a radical revolution can only be a revolution of real needs”. For every revolutionary move, however, the prisons of oppression – if not entirely destroyed, are also renewed in the form of counterrevolution, even preventively.