From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Wed Oct 26 2005 - 10:24:41 EDT
Excerpted from a "marxist philosophy" (a yahoo group) post. In solidarity, Jerry ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Vene Building socialist democracy - Green Left Weekly #646, October 26, 2005 (3) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Green Left Weekly <http://www.greenleft.org.au/index.htm> RSS feed <http://www.greenleft.org.au/rss/glw.xml> Green Left Weekly #646, October 26, 2005 VENEZUELA: Building socialist democracy - an interview with Marta Harnecker <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/646/646p12.htm> Along with attempting to transform the state and the logic of the capitalist market, the Bolivarian revolution has fought to replace the so-called representative democracy that existed for 40 years prior to the 1998 election of Chavez and replace it with a real participatory and protagonist democracy, under which the people begin to take control of their lives, their community and their country. It is in this area of popular participation that Harnecker spends most of her time, studying and promoting new experiences and initiatives that are attempting to transfer real decision-making power to the people. Full: <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/646/646p12.htm> * VENEZUELA: Expropriations, cooperatives and co-management <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/646/646p14.htm> * VENEZUELA: Government rejects latest slurs <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/646/646p12b.htm> * VENEZUELA: Significant decrease in poverty <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/646/646p12c.htm>
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