“Rather Than Harbor a Universal Grudge, It Is Better to Act”

Miguel Benasayag, a Franco-Argentinian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and essayist, and a Guevarist militant under the military dictatorship in Argentina, is part of a libertarian sphere. A critic of “sad militancy,” and mistrustful of political parties, he looks back at his experiences as a guerrilla and the ideas developed later on in his book Pour une nouvelle radicalite.1 He explains the (theoretical and practical) experimental basis of his various political commitments to Mouvements, from the Malgre Tout Collective to his current work with the Italian Co-operative Movement, and expresses his ideas on the new, emerging ontologies. For instance, what will the “new beast” be that will define our era as the figures of God and then Man defined those that preceded it?