"when a citizenry gains the ability to democratically allocate funds, they grow increasingly excited about directing those funds to other participatory institutions, especially workers’ cooperatives"
https://dsa-lsc.org/2017/09/30/organizing-beyond-the-point-of-production/
https://dsa-lsc.org/2017/09/30/organizing-beyond-the-point-of-production/
DSA Libertarian Socialist Caucus
Organizing Beyond the Point of Production
Marxists tend to emphasize the importance of organizing labor in workplaces or “the point of production.” In this pamphlet, the author sketches out the limitations of a dogmatically labor-centric approach and outlines the radical potential of workers’ cooperatives…
"Much of what had once made Venezuela an attractive model was deeply contradictory. The Venezuelan process combined diverse forms of popular empowerment with ultra-charismatic leadership; redistribution of oil wealth that involved bureaucratic-military cliques sacking the resources of the state; communal democracy from below with authoritarian forms from above; a discourse of socialist planning with very limited capacity for public management"
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/implosion-bolivarian-revolution
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/implosion-bolivarian-revolution
Dissent Magazine
The Implosion of the Bolivarian Revolution | Dissent Magazine
Because anti-imperialist discourse in Latin America serves short-term political purposes, the latter-day defenders of Chavismo have little interest in studying the political dynamics and concrete geostrategic interests behind really existing empire.