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Communes and workers' control in Venezuela : building 21st century socialism from below / by Dario Azzellini ; translated from the Spanish by Ned Sublette.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Azzellini, Dario, 1967- author.
- Series:
- Historical materialism book series ; Volume 133.
- Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; Volume 133
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Socialism--Venezuela.
- Socialism.
- Works councils--Venezuela.
- Works councils.
- Community organization--Venezuela.
- Community organization.
- Social movements--Venezuela.
- Social movements.
- Venezuela--Politics and government--1999-.
- Venezuela.
- Venezuela--Social conditions--1999-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2017.
- Summary:
- In Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela: Building 21st Century Socialism from Below , Dario Azzellini offers an account of the Bolivarian Revolution from below. While authors on Venezuela commonly concentrate on former president Hugo Chávez and government politics, this book shows how workers, peasants and the poor in urban communities engage in building 21st century socialism through popular movements, communal councils, communes and fighting for workers' control. In a relationship of cooperation and conflict with the state, social transformation is approached on 'two tracks', from below and from above. Azzellini’s fascinating account stands out because of the extensive empirical examples and original voices from movements, communal councils, communes and workers.
- Contents:
- Front Matter / Dario Azzellini
- Introduction / Dario Azzellini
- Class, Constituent Power, and Popular Power / Dario Azzellini
- Movements and Alternative Construction in Venezuela / Dario Azzellini
- The Communal Councils: Local Self-Administration and Social Transformation / Dario Azzellini
- New Collective Business Paradigms / Dario Azzellini
- Workers’ Control, Workers’ Councils, and Class Struggle / Dario Azzellini
- Communes, Production, and the Communal State / Dario Azzellini
- Local and Worker Self-Management, Two-Track Construction, and Class Struggle: A Preliminary Assessment / Dario Azzellini
- Interviews / Dario Azzellini
- References / Dario Azzellini
- Index / Dario Azzellini.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-33175-1
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004331754 DOI
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