Reading César Vallejo certainly helps me feel a distant spark of revolutionary zeal. Yet, as I mentioned in my previous post, I am not sure it is all affirmative. "Los mineros salieron de la mina" in Poemas humanos is certainly captures another event of human creation. This creation is again twofold. In his Cátedra edition, Julio Vélez remarks on these impressive lines:
creadores de la profundidad,
saben, a cielo intermitente de escalera,
bajar mirando para arriba,
saben subir mirando para abajo. (20-24)
Snapping up the historical significance of these lines, Vélez mentions Eisenstein's influence on Vallejo's poetry. Sure. Elsewhere Vallejo writes of Eisenstein's work: "[el] gran recreador del mundo, la fuerza de las fuerzas, el acto de los actos". Vélez draws out that the miners create their own consciousness. Yet the poem is consistently obsessed with geological movements, descending, ascending, carving up and drawing out of the earth. I would argue that this humanism is (again) not just about humans, but about the act of carving into the earth to sustain human industry. As I have mentioned in previous posts, affirming Neyrat's (anti)humanism, humanism consistently requires an outside, a collection (or landscape) of nonhuman actors. Marxist humanism as the act of acts certainly does not remain merely a human act. Bedrock is also actively playing into the formation of human consciousness.
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