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Venezuela, the Present as Struggle - Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution (Hardcover)
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Venezuela, the Present as Struggle - Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution (Hardcover)
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"Today more than ever, we need to listen to critical voices from
the Venezuelan grassroots, and this is exactly what Venezuela, the
Present as Struggle gives us. Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris
Gilbert have gathered the tools we need to navigate the treacherous
straits between state and movements, economic crisis and sanctions,
and to chart a radical course toward socialism." -George
Ciccariello-Maher, author, Building the Commune: Radical Democracy
in Venezuela Venezuela has been the stuff of frontpage news
extravaganzas, especially since the death of Hugo Chavez. With
predictable bias, mainstream media focus on violent clashes between
opposition and government, coup attempts, hyperinflation, U.S.
sanctions, and massive immigration. What is less known, however, is
the story of what the Venezuelan people - especially the Chavista
masses - do and think in these times of social emergency. Denying
us their stories comes at a high price to people everywhere,
because the Chavista bases are the real motors of the Bolivarian
revolution. This revolutionary grassroots movement still aspires to
the communal path to socialism that Chavez refined in his last
years. Venezuela, the Present as Struggle is an eloquent testament
to their lives. Comprised of a series of compelling interviews
conducted by Cira Pascual Marquina, professor at the Bolivarian
University, and contextualized by author Chris Gilbert, the book
seeks to open a window on grassroots Chavismo itself in the wake of
Chavez's death. Feminist and housing activists, communards, organic
intellectuals, and campesinos from around the country speak up in
their own voices, defending the socialist project and pointing to
what they see as revolutionary solutions to Venezuela's current
crisis. If the Venezuelan government has shown an impressive
capacity to resist imperialism, it is the Chavista grassroots
movement, as this book shows, that actually defends socialism as
the only coherent project of national liberation.
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