Dario Azzellini in: Latin American Utopias: Past and Present, Edited by Juan Pro
“The Commune in Venezuela: A Utopian Prefiguration”
In an age in which fears about the future predominate (in the form of dystopias, ecological catastrophes and terrifying Sci-Fi scenarios), utopia is reappearing as the bearer of hope for the fate of humanity. Latin America has historically been a fertile ground where utopian projects, movements and experiments could take root and thrive, and this constitutes one of the region's major contributions to world history.
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