The Future

 

The Future is not what comes tomorrow, the time calendar. It is when our human journey breaks from the realism of capitalism and enters a structure that permits us to fully solve human dilemmas.

Tricontinental

Each month, for the past hundred months, our team at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research has researched, written, and designed a dossier. These dossiers – which range from histories of imperialism and national liberation to analyses of economic policy, sovereignty, war, and the changing world order – have circulated around the world in many languages, from English, Hindi, and Portuguese to Arabic, Thai, and Spanish.1 This is our 100th dossier, which is why we decided to pause and produce a historical-materialist account of a key concept at our institute: the future.

Here, for the first time, we present a philosophical and political assessment of the future. Drawing on the José Venturelli (Chile), Serigrafía (Serigraph), 1970, edition 15/90. 260 x 430 mm.tradition of national liberation Marxism, we argue that this future should be called not only socialism, the objective, but also hope, the sensibility for such a future. We trust that you will read this dossier as you have read the previous ninety-nine and that you will share, debate, and discuss it collectively in reading circles and other spaces of political study. We are always open to your feedback.

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