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1 online resource (315 pages) |
| Series |
Historical Materialism Book Series |
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Historical materialism book series
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| Contents |
Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. Venezuela's Specific Path; 2. The Dilemma of the State; 3. Two-Track Construction; 4. Local Self-Government, Communal Councils (CCs), and Communes; 5. Cooperatives, Co-Management, Self-Management, and Workers' Control; 6. The Revolution without Chávez; Chapter 2. Class, Constituent Power, and Popular Power; 1. Updating the Concept of Class; 1.1. Theoretical Notes on Class and Multitude; 1.2. Class Composition and Breadth in Venezuela; 2. Socio-Territorial Segregation and Class Formation |
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3. From Taking Power to Process: Constituent Power and Popular Power3.1. Crisis as a Motor of History: Constituent Power vs. Constituted Power; 3.2. The Popular Constituent Process; 3.3. The Simultaneity of Foci: Resistance, Insurrection and Constituent Power; 3.4. Popular Power: The Knowledge of Resistance; Chapter 3. Movements and Alternative Construction in Venezuela; 1. Social Movements or Popular Movements?; 2. The Historical Current for Change and the Ruptures of the Continuum; 3. The New Framework of Action; 4. Popular Actors and Autonomous Construction |
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4.1. The Bolívar and Zamora Revolutionary Current4.2. The Settlers' Movement; 4.3. National Network of Communards; Chapter 4. The Communal Councils: Local Self-Administration and Social Transformation; 1. The Origins of the CCs and Their Antecedents in Local Participation; 1.1. Participatory Budgeting; 1.2. The Failed CLPP Initiative; 1.3. Metropolitan Council for Planning Public Policies (CMPPP); 1.4. The Municipal Constituent; 1.5. The Local Work Cabinets in Caracas; 2. The Communal Councils; 2.1. The Genesis of the CCs; 2.2. Makeup and Structure |
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2.3. Rigid Law and Flexible Praxis2.4. Financing and Financial Administration; 2.5. Projects; 2.6. Decentralisation or Centralisation; 2.7. Development, Situation, and Contradictions; 2.8. Relationship between CCs and Institutions; 2.9. CCs and Popular Movements; 2.10. Relations between CCs and Communities; 2.11. The Appropriation of CCs by Communities and the Question of the State; 3. The CCs as a Means of Participation in the Barrios of Caracas; 3.1. The 'Emiliano Hernández' Communal Council, Magallanes de Catia, Caracas; 3.2. The CC as a Body of Self-Administration |
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3.3. Participation as a Process of Development and of Social Recognition3.4. New Social Relations and Community Transformation; 3.5. Participation as a Process of Democratisation and of Building Collectivity; 3.6. The CC 'Unidos por el Chapulún', Parroquia Nuestra Sra. del Rosario, Baruta; 3.7. CCs in Caracas: Conclusions; 3.8. Participation; 3.9. Relationship between Communities and Institutions; Chapter 5. New Collective Business Paradigms; 1. Cooperatives; 1.1. Roots of Cooperativism in Venezuela; 1.2. Governmental Policies of Support for Cooperatives |
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1.3. Limitations of State Support for Cooperatives |
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Print version record |
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Socialism -- Venezuela
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Socialism
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Arbeiterselbstverwaltung
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Selbstverwaltung
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Sozialismus
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Venezuela
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Venezuela
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004331754 |
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9004331751 |
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