{"id":358283,"date":"2018-04-25T04:59:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T03:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/communes-and-workers-control-in-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2018-04-25T04:59:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T03:59:25","slug":"communes-and-workers-control-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/communes-and-workers-control-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Communes and Workers\u2019 Control in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/04\/communes-and-workers-control-in-venezuela\/comuna-o-nada-va_2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79134\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/comuna-o-nada-VA_2-e1524337322619.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><em>\u201cNobody surrenders here! Commune or nothing!\u201d \u2013 a mural depicting Ch\u00e1vez and the commitment to building the commune (Photo: Venezuelanalysis)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe communes should be the space in which we are going to give birth to socialism.\u201d \u2013 these were the words of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez in one of his famous presidential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todochavez.gob.ve\/todochavez\/6287-alo-presidente-teorico-n-1\">broadcasts<\/a>. To discuss the Venezuelan communes and the new forms of participation, as well as its successes, difficulties and contradictions, we have interviewed Dario Azzellini*. He has investigated and documented theses issues throughout the Bolivarian Revolution. His book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/books\/1095-communes-and-workers-control-in-venezuela\">Communes and Workers\u2019 Control in Venezuela<\/a> has recently been released in paperback by Haymarket Books.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ricardo Vaz: <\/strong>In your book you talk about a \u201ctwo-track process\u201d in Venezuela, from above and from below. Can you explain this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dario Azzellini: <\/strong>Traditionally, some people have a vision that change is coming from above, so you have to take over state power and the government and then you change everything from above. Others disagree and defend that you have to do everything from the bottom-up and the grassroots, and overcome the state.<\/p>\n<p>I think Venezuela shows that the state is there, whether you want it or not. It does not go away if you ignore it. On the other hand, we also have the experience that if you try to change something from above without having the self-organised structures in society to sustain it, then the conscience of people is not really changed and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/04\/communes-and-workers-control-in-venezuela\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNobody surrenders here! Commune or nothing!\u201d \u2013 a mural depicting Ch\u00e1vez and the commitment to building the commune (Photo: Venezuelanalysis) \u201cThe communes should be the space in which we are going to give birth to socialism.\u201d \u2013 these were the words of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez in one of his famous presidential broadcasts. To discuss the Venezuelan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}