“Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe’s book needed to be written; now it must
be read. The magnitude of the crimes described in detail in this book
cannot be disputed. …In my view one might be tempted to say all this
belongs to the past. But it should not be an excuse to forget history
and the questions that still affect the reality of our world. The year
1492 is not a random date. Not the year of the ‘discovery of America’.
The year 1492 is when the conquest and destruction of the Americas by
Europeans began. Plumelle-Uribe is right to say that the ferocity of the
Nazis is not an anomalous, inexplicable occurrence. It is integral to
the rationale for implementing ferocity, which, I once again stress, is
inherent to capitalism. To understand where this ferocity originates,
look at the logic of capital: accumulate, accumulate, regardless of the
price (in human terms).”
