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for Vattimo and Zabala, communism has now become weak because it has lost the strong reasons that had sustained it in the past (historical teleology, the quasi-divine destiny of the proletariat, etc.) and has finally returned freed from metaphysics, that is, the imposition of unassailable truths. It can also be considered as weak because its political inspiration is no longer Eurocentric or ethnocentric. Rather, it is drawn from a diversity of struggles on the part of marginalized and oppressed peoples across the globe and in Latin America, in particular. At stake in their project, therefore, is not only weak thought, but the thought of the weak, the interpretive paradigms of those pushing back against their generalized dispossession in the global neoliberal order. One could say that communism here refers to the diverse communities of voices and practices reinterpreting the world in ways that directly rebuke the developmental “truths” imposed on them