Communes and workers' control in Venezuela : : building 21st century socialism from below / / by Dario Azzellini ; translated from the Spanish by Ned Sublette.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 133
• VerfasserIn: Azzellini, Dario, 1967-
• TeilnehmendeR: Sublette, Ned,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English; Spanish
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 133.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (315 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter /; Introduction /; Class, Constituent Power, and Popular Power /; Movements and Alternative Construction in Venezuela /; The Communal Councils: Local Self-Administration and Social Transformation /; New Collective Business Paradigms /; Workers’ Control, Workers’ Councils, and Class Struggle /; Communes, Production, and the Communal State /; Local and Worker Self-Management, Two-Track Construction, and Class Struggle: A Preliminary Assessment /; Interviews /; References /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004331751
• ISSN: 1570-1522
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Dario Azzellini ; translated from the Spanish by Ned Sublette.

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.