Prefiguring communalism and economic democracy in the Basque Country

This article examines the emergence of a grass-root movement that brings back the past in order to prefigure communalist practices in the Basque Country. The movement comprises both the platform of Biltzarre and the Basque Cultural Instinct Team. Their proposal implies an invitation to consider a co...

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Autores: Renteria Uriarte, Xabier, Las Heras Cuenca, Jon
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave:social movements
economic democracy
communalism
Basque Country
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spelling Prefiguring communalism and economic democracy in the Basque CountryRenteria Uriarte, XabierLas Heras Cuenca, Jonsocial movementseconomic democracycommunalismBasque CountryprefigurationThis article examines the emergence of a grass-root movement that brings back the past in order to prefigure communalist practices in the Basque Country. The movement comprises both the platform of Biltzarre and the Basque Cultural Instinct Team. Their proposal implies an invitation to consider a concrete ‘social myth' that brings forward the sovereign agency of an ancient socioeconomic cultural model (medieval Basque direct democracy) into contemporary anti-capitalist struggles. Although those practices have mostly withered away, they may still function as a source of inspiration for revolutionary purposes. Crucially, such experience helps us to overcome the ‘leftist melancholy’ pointed out by Enzo Traverso, in which social movements seem to start always from the scratch. The article stresses the importance of engaging with economic democracy debates critically, thus questioning the role prices and technology have in sharing economy and commoning models, and problematizes the limits they may have in global capitalism.Taylor & Francis202620262021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/77998reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoIngléshttps://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1863542info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/(c) 2021 Taylor & Francis. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Licenseoai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/779982026-06-18T09:23:17Z
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title Prefiguring communalism and economic democracy in the Basque Country
spellingShingle Prefiguring communalism and economic democracy in the Basque Country
Renteria Uriarte, Xabier
social movements
economic democracy
communalism
Basque Country
prefiguration
title_short Prefiguring communalism and economic democracy in the Basque Country
title_full Prefiguring communalism and economic democracy in the Basque Country
title_fullStr Prefiguring communalism and economic democracy in the Basque Country
title_full_unstemmed Prefiguring communalism and economic democracy in the Basque Country
title_sort Prefiguring communalism and economic democracy in the Basque Country
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Renteria Uriarte, Xabier
Las Heras Cuenca, Jon
author Renteria Uriarte, Xabier
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Las Heras Cuenca, Jon
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economic democracy
communalism
Basque Country
prefiguration
topic social movements
economic democracy
communalism
Basque Country
prefiguration
description This article examines the emergence of a grass-root movement that brings back the past in order to prefigure communalist practices in the Basque Country. The movement comprises both the platform of Biltzarre and the Basque Cultural Instinct Team. Their proposal implies an invitation to consider a concrete ‘social myth' that brings forward the sovereign agency of an ancient socioeconomic cultural model (medieval Basque direct democracy) into contemporary anti-capitalist struggles. Although those practices have mostly withered away, they may still function as a source of inspiration for revolutionary purposes. Crucially, such experience helps us to overcome the ‘leftist melancholy’ pointed out by Enzo Traverso, in which social movements seem to start always from the scratch. The article stresses the importance of engaging with economic democracy debates critically, thus questioning the role prices and technology have in sharing economy and commoning models, and problematizes the limits they may have in global capitalism.
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