Building The Commune
Popular participation in Venezuela’s Bolivarian process has been much debated. But just as the majority of existing literature tends to minimize the importance of the participation of social move- ments from below in the process, similarly this participation –whether in the communal councils or the...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Estudios Latinoamericanos |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/57461 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rel/article/view/57461 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Venezuela Hugo Chávez commune social movements socialism. comuna movimientos sociales socialismo. movimentos sociais |
| Sumario: | Popular participation in Venezuela’s Bolivarian process has been much debated. But just as the majority of existing literature tends to minimize the importance of the participation of social move- ments from below in the process, similarly this participation –whether in the communal councils or the communes of today– is frequently reduced to an expansion of the power of the Venezuelan state. In this essay, I argue that the communes represent –in theory as in practice– an anti-state horizon that is today spreading across the country. Understood in this way, the communes confront a series of challenges and contradictions that might seem insurmountable, but which in the context of the current crisis might represent strategic advantages as well. |
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