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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · 7d

I agree that we need sortition. But that is not enough. I spoke about this at the Sortition and Socialism conference organized by the International Network of Sortition.
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INSA Presents the Online Conference: Sortition and Socialism

Sortition and Socialism Saturday, August 31, 2024 – Sunday, September 1st in Asia & Australia – 15:00 – 19:00 UTC 17:00 CEST • 11AM US Eastern • 12:00 Buenos Aires • 8AM US Pacific Google Meet…

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · 7d

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to present my work on plebeian populism and anti-oligarchic politics at the @populismpsa.bsky.social workshop in Thessaloniki. With keynotes by Judith Butler and Yannis Stavrakakis.
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FREE @freefreeforum.bsky.social · 23d

Why #Oligarchy never disappears: power concentrates at the top, leaders gain knowledge, resources & connections, then detach from the people.
@camilavergara.bsky.social & #ClaraMattei unpack how #SystemicCorruption works: youtu.be/UT0y1CRFfBA

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · 26d

the crucial role that FREE can play in the (re)learning of assembly-based politics and the establishment of counter-hegemonic spaces in which political economy is redefined, from the ground up.

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · 26d

Watch the full Forum for Real Economic Emancipation (FREE) Podcast with Clara Mattei & myself. We talked about representative democracy, oligarchy, expropriation w/o compensation, praxis, the need to bring art & music as part of political activity, and...
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Legal Corruption: How Power Really Works | Camila Vergara & Clara Mattei

YouTube video by FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Sep 8

Are you a scholar working on Latin America? Consider applying to LASA 2026 in Paris for its 60-year anniversary. The theme: “Republic and Revolution". Deadline to send abstracts is tomorrow.
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Join us in Paris for LASA2026 and the 60th Anniversary of the Association

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Sep 4

A short video from the @freefreeforum.bsky.social podcast with Clara Mattei.
Representative government is not democracy but oligarchy by design.
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Legal Corruption: How Power Really Works | Camila Vergara & Clara Mattei

YouTube video by FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Aug 29

I had the honor to launch the @freefreeforum.bsky.social in Tulsa, Oklahoma, alongside brilliant economist Clara Mattei. We had an exciting conversation about oligarchy, corruption & people's power.
Watch the video here
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Democracy from Below: How to Defeat Oligarchy | Camila Vergara & Clara Mattei

YouTube video by FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Aug 13

Great article on class, labor, and race in the US, and the way forward, by Michael McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social
hammerandhope.org/article/iden...

The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Economic Populism

A left that ignores the differences within the working class will never build power.

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Jul 20

Watch the great Clara Mattei explain the Trump’s budget bill, how it deepens the oligarchic thrust of capitalism, and the need to include common people in economic decisions.
youtu.be/-d6ac0I3hE0

Makers, Takers & America’s Wealth Distribution Problem | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Jun 26

Progress has been detached from the common good and means have become ends in themselves.
Without understanding what we have in common and what we want for our life in common, we cannot be truly progressive.

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Jun 26

Progress has been detached from the common good and means have become ends in themselves.
Without understanding what we have in common and what we want for our life in common, we cannot be truly progressive.

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Jun 26

I have been included as part of the "world's leading thinkers" with my interventions about the Enlightenment and progressive politics at a festival organized by the Institute of Arts and Ideas in London. Brief intervention at minute 23:40. @iai.tv youtu.be/ZLuJCUyTg88?...

The Enlightenment: is the promise of progress over? | Pinker, Neiman, Mearsheimer, and many more

YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Jun 10

Great analysis of the LA resistance to ICE raids by Peter Bloom
in @commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-...

The L.A. Awakening: Repression, Resistance, and the Possibility of Radical Democratic Renewal | Common Dreams

It is increasingly clear that the real threat lies not with the person crossing a border, working a warehouse shift, or marching in the street—but with the structure that enriches itself by sowing div...

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Jun 9

Durante mi visita a Mexico conversé con John Ackerman acerca de la crisis de la democracia, las revoluciones populares y el poder constituyente. También hablamos de las elecciones del poder judicial en México.
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Diálogos por la democracia con John Ackerman y Camila Vergara

YouTube video by TV UNAM

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · May 28

I look forward to contributing to the discussion on 'Democracy's Discontents' at this great conference organized by Reset Dialogues on Civilizations in Venice.

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AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · May 25

anti-oligarchic devices @camilavergara.bsky.social #systemiccorruption

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Camila Vergara's Vision of Plebeian Constitutionalism | Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier

Chilean political philosopher Camila Vergara boldly argues in her book 'Systemic Corruption' that decay and corruption are inevitable even in liberal, representative systems because oligarchs end up c...

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · May 22

Today I will be discussing the 'American Constitutional Collapse: Corrosion of Law' with Aziz Rana & Michael Hardt at Red May. Tune in at 11:00 PDT / 19:00 BST
www.youtube.com/live/20BkLmO...

American Constitutional Collapse

YouTube video by Red May TV

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · May 21

Join us now to discuss Bruno Leipold's book Citizen Marx
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Citizen Marx: Republicanism & Formation of Marx's Thought

YouTube video by Red May TV

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · May 13

Join us this Thursday and Friday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of @LSEHumanRights. I will be in a panel with Banu Bargu and Brenna Bhandar, talking about Human Rights ‘from Below’: Dignity, Democracy & Class Struggle
Register here
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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · May 8

On Friday at 11am PDT join Alberto Toscano, Jodi Dean, Michael McCarthy, Jasper Bernes and myself on a discussion about oligarchy, fascism and radical alternatives to the status quo at Red May. Thank you Philip Wohlstetter for organizing.
Tune in on YouTube
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Some Way Out of Here?

Camila Vergara, Michael McCarthy, Jasper Bernes, Jodi Dean, Alberto Toscano, Philip Wohlstetter (mod) Let’s see. Lawbreaking on a colossal scale? Check. Masked Gestapo kidnappings? Check. Extreme fin...

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Apr 30

New Master (LLM) in Human Rights Advocacy, run jointly by the University Network for Human Rights and NOVA School of Law in Lisbon, Portugal.
Applications due May 15.
www.humanrightsnetwork.org/llm-human-ri...

NOVA Law School Human Rights Advocacy LLM — University Network for Human Rights

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Apr 30

Clip from The Settlers. This is how apartheid is enforced in the West Bank.

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Apr 11

This Sunday I will give the plenary address at University of Chicago Graduate Conference in Political Theory on "Theorizing from Below: Political Theory as Democratic Praxis". I look forward to discussing about this topic with Wendy Brown in the final roundtable.
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