“Every agent of change is an historical manifestation”. We think that warnings like these, from Marxist and liberal scholars, can be taken seriously without becoming dogmatic. We agree that regardless of how we define the subject, regardless of which particular subject we focus on, regardless of who fills the role of protagonist in struggle, liberation is always an historical production, not an individual experience.
And importantly, anything that’s been produced historically has the potential to be reproduced again in the future.
Resistance movements see liberation practices as fruits of struggle, but the capitalist system sees them as byproducts. That’s why we say that the new historical subject will be the fruit of liberation practices.
