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This year marks the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, and this weeks show marks that occasion with a discussion on the rights of the commons with author Peter Linebaugh. We also visit a community center in Caracas, and hear from youth voices about life and revolution in Venezuela.
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“Communards have been meeting around the country on an independent basis to better organise their movement and present the government with their proposals and requirements for development.
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For more than a decade people opposed to the government of Venezuela have argued that its economy would implode. Like communists in the 1930s rooting for the final crisis of capitalism, they saw economic collapse just around the corner. How frustrating it has been for them to witness only two recessions: one directly caused by the opposition's oil strike (December 2002-May 2003) and one brought on by the world recession (2009 and the first half of 2010). However, the government got control of the national oil company in 2003, and the whole decade's economic performance turned out quite well, with average annual growth of real income per person of 2.7% and poverty reduced by over half, and large gains for the majority in employment, access to health care, pensions and education.
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The particular character of what Hugo Chávez called the Bolivarian process lies in the understanding that social transformation can be constructed from two directions, “from above” and “from below.” Bolivarianism—or Chavismo—includes among its participants both traditional organizations and new autonomous groups; it encompasses both state-centric and anti-systemic currents. The process thus differs from traditional Leninist or social democratic approaches, both of which see the state as the central agent of change; it differs as well from movement-based approaches that conceive of no role whatsoever for the state in a process of revolutionary change.
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Workshops, LEarning Sessions, 3D Printing for Everyone! Think, Create, Materialize Your Ideas!
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City links: This week’s best city stories look at participatory public space projects in Venezuelan cities, an app to preserve cultural heritage, skyscrapers without shadows – and how regeneration has changed Harlem
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“The Venezuelan government and commune movement are taking steps to move towards the creation of what is referred to as a “communal state”, which involves community organisations assuming collective control of local production and decision making.
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Interesting video showing the other side of the Venezuelan divide:
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The Communal State model in Venezuela. photo of Michel Bauwens. Michel Bauwens. 7th December 2013. Excerpted from Dario Azzellini: “In January 2007, Chávez proposed to go beyond the bourgeois state by building the communal state.
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A widely lauded new technology for disease diagnosis in poor countries has failed to progress to field trial stage because of funding issues.
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