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Talk at the Asia-Europe People’s Forum and transform! conference "Our Common Social Future," Barcelona, June 8-10, 2018 - 10 juni 2018
Commons and Conflict
Today, everyone is speaking about commons and ‘commoning’, everyone wants to build commons. The World Bank has a group which is supposedly ‘protecting and improving the global commons’ and it reaches out to the private sector to ‘advance common goods’. You can find texts on commons on the website of the European Union, banks organize seminars on the commons. Transnational companies tell us they are building the commons, big magazines declare that Uber is commoning cars, and that the “sharing economy” is a form of commoning.
Interview with Dario Azzellini
Yes We Can: Worker-Owned Coops
Founded in 1973, (yes, that’s 45 years ago!) the Park Slope Food Coop is one of the oldest and largest consumer food coops in the country. It’s a presence in our lives, the source of our food, and a center for community engagement. And it’s also part of a larger coop movement that stretches back in time and exists in many parts of the world.
One Question in On State of Nature Blog
What does class struggle mean today?
What does class struggle mean today?
Class struggle, that is, the struggle between labour and capital, is not at all a concept that belongs to the past. In a world of growing inequality, it is a reality more pertinent than ever. A recent study has revealed that since 2008 the wealth of the richest 1% has been growing at an average of 6% a year, while the wealth of the remaining 99% of the world’s population has been growing by only 3%. By 2030, the world’s richest 1% will control nearly two-thirds of the world’s wealth.
Entrevista a Darío Azzellini
“La guerra ha llegado a ser la forma de hacer economía y no la interrupción de la economía”
Quisiera comenzar la entrevista con algunas referencias relativas a su formación y a su trayectoria intelectual.
Dario Azzellini in: Council Democracy. Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics
"The Legacy of Workers’ Councils in Contemporary Social Movements"
„The return to public assemblies and direct democratic methods in the wave of the global "squares movements" since 2011 has rejuvenated interest in forms of council organisation and action. The European council movements, which developed in the immediate post-First World War era, were the most impressive of a number of attempts to develop workers’ councils throughout the twentieth century. However, in spite of the recent challenges to liberal democracy, the question of council democracy has so far been neglected within democratic theory.
A könyv előszava „They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy“
David Harvey: Ők nem képviselhetnek bennünket
David Harvey 2014-es Ők nem képviselhetnek bennünket c. cikkében amellett érvel, hogy a kapitalizmus nyerteseit rá kell kényszeríteni, hogy megfizessék a környezetre és a társadalomra mért károkat. Világszintű mozgalom-viziójának fontos pillére a tüntetés mint eszköz a civilek kezében.
Eredetileg megjelent előszóként Marina Sitrin és Dario Azzellini: They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy. (Ők nem képviselhetnek bennünket! A demokrácia újra-feltalálása Görögországtól az ‘Occupy’ mozgalomig.) London–New York: Verso, 2014.
Book Review
Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in a Global City by Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay
"The book offers interesting insight into the everyday life of undocumented migrants without portraying them as helpless victims. Ample quotations from the interviews underline their agency and the complex and contradictory conditions they experience in the ethnic enclaves they are forced to rely on. Bloch and McKay shed light on the circumstances, motivations, and conditions of ethnic enclave employers, who, in most of the literature on undocumented migration, are not a subject of research.
Dario Azzellini ile röportaj
İŞÇİ KONSEYLERİNDEN GÜNÜMÜZ KÜBA KOOPERATİÇİLİĞİNE: Konuş Kolektif Hafıza
“Beşik dipsiz uçurumun üzerinde sallanıyor ve sağduyu bize varlığın iki karanlık ebediyet içinde anlık bir ışık kırılmasından ibaret olduğunu söylüyor” diyor Nabokov. Ama bir de kolektif hafıza var. Paul Fraisse’den aktaralım: “Hiçbir zaman yalnız değiliz... En şahsi hatıralarımız bile içinde yaşadığımız topluluğa sıkı sıkıya bağlı”. İşte şimdi o kolektif hafızaya kulak veriyoruz. Dario Azzellini’ye bağlanıp 1956 Macaristan ayaklanmasından başlayıp güncel Küba kooperatifçilik hareketine uzanan işçi kolektiflerini dinliyoruz.
Radio Corax: interview mit Dario Azzellini
Wer die Wahl und Maduro disqualifiziert, versteht Venezuela nicht
Ende Mai wurde in Venezuela Nicolas Maduro erneut zum Präsidenten gewählt. Die internationalen Reaktionen auf das Ergebnis waren unterschiedlich. Während einige Länder, unter anderem Kuba gratulierten, hat der US-Außenminister Mike Pompeo die Wahl als Schwindel bezeichnet und Sanktionen angekündigt. In Europa und von der Lima-Gruppe wurden Stimmen laut, dass die Wahl undemokratisch abgelaufen sei. Eine andere Sicht auf die Wahl und die Situation in Venezuela hat der linke Sozialwissenschaftler Dario Azzellini.
A Preview of the Future
Workers’ Control in the Context of a Global Systemic Crisis
One of the ‘concrete utopias’, as Ernst Bloch called them, realistic possible concepts for a better world, that can already be found in the here and now, are ‘recuperated companies’. Focusing on the examples of the worker-controlled factories RiMaflow in the industrial periphery of Milan and Officine Zero in Rome this text allows a glimpse of how society could be organised differently.
Elezioni presidenziali in Venezuela, 20 maggio 2018
I primi risultati preliminari annunciati dal Consiglio Nazionale Elettorale del Venezuela danno il presidente Nicolás Maduro come vincitore delle elezioni presidenziali con il 68% dei voti con una partecipazione elettorale tra il 46 e il 48%. Maduro ha ricevuto 5.823.728 voti. Il principale candidato dell’opposizione Henri Falcón ha raggiunto il 21%, 1.820.552 voti, l’oppositore evangelico Javier Bertucci 925.042 voti e il candidato della sinistra trotzkista di opposizione Reinaldo Quijada ha ricevuto 34.614 voti.
Elecciones presidenciales en Venezuela, 20 de mayo 2018
"Quien descalifica el resultado electoral, quien no lo entiende, no entiende a Venezuela“
Los primeros resultados preliminares anunciados por el Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) en Venezuela dan al presidente Nicolás Maduro como ganador de las elecciones presidenciales con un 68% de los votos y con una participación electoral entre el 46 y 48%. Maduro recibió 5.823.728 votos. El principal candidato opositor Henri Falcón juntó un 21%, 1.820.552 votos; el opositor evangélico Javier Bertucci 925.042 votos y el candidato de la izquierda opositora trotskista Reinaldo Quijada, recibió 34.614 votos.
Dario Azzellini zu den Wahlen in Venezuela, der Kritik von Basisaktivisten an der Regierung und warum sie dennoch Maduro gewählt haben
"Wer das Wahlergebnis disqualifiziert, wer es nicht versteht, versteht Venezuela nicht"
Dem zweiten offiziellen Bulletin vom Nationalen Wahlrat in Venezuela gemäß ging Präsident Nicolás Maduro als klarer Sieger der Präsidentschaftswahlen hervor. Er erhielt 67,76 Prozent der Stimmen bei einer Wahlbeteiligung zwischen 46,02 Prozent (bei 98,7 Prozent ausgezählten Stimmen). Maduro kam auf 6.190.612 Stimmen.
Entrevista con Dario Azzellini
Comunas y control obrero en Venezuela
“Las comunas deben ser el espacio sobre el cual vamos a parir el socialismo”, son palabras pronunciadas por Hugo Chávez en uno de sus famosos programas de radio “Aló presidente”. Hemos entrevistado a Dario Azzellini* para hablar de las comunas venezolanas y de las nuevas formas de participación, así como de sus éxitos, dificultades y contradicciones. Dario Azzellini ha investigado y documentado estos temas a lo largo de toda la Revolución Bolivariana. Haymarket Books acaba de publicar en edición de bolsillo su libro Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela.
Entrevista a Dario Azzellini
Desafiar el capitalisme per mitjà del control obrer, Per què és important el control obrer?
Una característica comuna de cada situació de crisi, des dels aixecaments de principis del segle XX fins a les reestructuracions neoliberals de la fi d'aquest mateix segle, és l'aparició del control obrer: els obrers s'organitzen per fer-se càrrec dels seus llocs de treball per tal de defensar els seus llocs de treball i les seves comunitats.
Entrevista con Dario Azzellini
Desafiar al capitalismo por medio del control obrero
Una característica común de cada situación de crisis, desde los levantamientos de principios del siglo XX hasta las reestructuraciones neoliberales de finales de ese mismo siglo, es la aparición del control obrero: los obreros se organizan para hacerse cargo de sus lugares de trabajo con el fin de defender sus puestos de trabajo y sus comunidades.
Interview avec Dario Azzellini
Communes et contrôle ouvrier au Venezuela
“Les communes devraient être l’espace dans lequel nous allons donner naissance au socialisme” – tels étaient les mots de Hugo Chávez dans une de ses fameuses émissions présidentielles. Pour discuter des communes vénézuéliennes et des nouvelles formes de participation, ainsi que de leurs succès, difficultés et contradictions, nous avons interviewé Dario Azzellini *. Il a étudié et documenté ces questions tout au long de la révolution Bolivarienne. Son livre «Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela » a récemment été publié en livre de poche par Haymarket Books.
Dario Azzellini em: Movimentos Sociais e Crises contemporâneas, Vol. 3, Editado por Alves de Lima Filho, Paulo; Tahan Novaes; Henrique; Macedo, Rogério
“Toma de empresas y gestión bajo control obrero en Europa como respuesta a la crisis”
„Poderíamos dizer que este volume trata dos processos de transformação social sob o capital, contra ou a favor dele, das suas transições socioeconômicas no sentido da emancipação da classe trabalhadora quanto do capital, neste quadrante histórico de reversões conexas e complexas. A captura desses três ricos processos se dá em grande estilo, possibilitando ao leitor e alunos uma rica e apaixonante leitura de tão vitais processos.
interview with Dario Azzellini
Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela
“The communes should be the space in which we are going to give birth to socialism.” – these were the words of Hugo Chávez in one of his famous presidential broadcasts. 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 Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela has recently been released in paperback by Haymarket Books.
interview with Dario Azzellini
Challenging capitalism through workers’ control
A common feature in every crisis situation, from the upheavals of the early 20th century to the neo-liberal re-structurings of the late 20th century, is the emergence of workers’ control – workers organising to take over their workplaces in order to defend their jobs and their communities.
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.
Bilbao resucita a Karl Marx
Entrevista El Salto: “La democracia tiene que estar adaptada a los diferentes lugares”
Bilbao se tiñó de rojo la semana pasada, y esta vez la culpable no fue ninguna afición visitante, sino la vuelta de uno de los clásicos. Los días 1, 2 y 3 de marzo la capital vizcaína acogió el Congreso Internacional Karl Marx, celebrado por el bicentenario de su nacimiento y organizado por el grupo de investigación Parte Hartuz y el Departamento de Ciencia Política y de la Administración de la UPV-EHU, con el apoyo de la Universidad y la colaboración de Betiko Fundazioa y diversos agentes políticos, sociales y sindicales.
Venezuela: mit Kryptowährung gegen die Krise
Seit der venezolanische Präsident Nicolás Maduro Anfang Dezember 2017 ankündigte, eine Kryptowährung Namens Petro einzuführen, wird das Thema in den Medien breit diskutiert. Mit der Eröffnung der Angebotsphase für den Privatkundenvorverkauf des Petro am 20. Februar, weitete sich die Diskussion noch einmal aus.
Prognosen zu italienischen Parlamentswahl
Interview Radio Lora München: "Eine Mehrheit für einen Irrwitz?"
Wie wird sich Italien nach der Wahl aufstellen? Dazu fragten wir den Autor und Politikwissenschaftler Dario Azzellini.
AutorInnen: Walter Heindl
Stiamo andando verso un altro crollo economico?
Non c'è dubbio che ci stiamo dirigendo verso un altro crollo economico, poiché il capitalismo è sempre diretto verso un altro crollo economico. È nella natura del capitalismo incrementare il capitale in eccesso e poi distruggerlo nuovamente attraverso crolli e guerre, al fine di far ripartire ancora una volta il processo di accumulazione. Dopo ogni crisi, come ci mostrano i dati storici, il ricco diventa più ricco e la concentrazione di capitale cresce. Da crollo a crollo, i cicli diventano più brevi e si accorciano via via che l'accumulazione di capitale in eccesso diventa più veloce.
Is democracy working?
The term democracy is generally used as a synonym for liberal democracy, which is far from being the only possible form of democracy; indeed, it is even questionable whether liberal democracy was ever intended to be truly democratic. For centuries, liberals and democrats have been fierce opponents. Liberals only accepted democracy when it was limited to the political sphere, excluding it from the economic and social sphere. Liberal democracy became the new form of governance of the emerging production model (industrial capitalism).
¿Nos dirigimos hacia otra crisis económica?
Sin duda nos dirigimos a otra crisis económica. El capitalismo siempre se dirige a otra crisis económica. Es la naturaleza del capitalismo para aumentar el capital excedente para luego destruirlo de nuevo a través de una crisis o de la guerra, con el fin de reiniciar el proceso de acumulación, una vez más. Después de cada crisis, como muestran los datos históricos, los ricos se hacen más ricos y la concentración de capital crece.
Are we heading for another economic crash?
No doubt we are heading for another economic crash because capitalism is always heading for another economic crash. It is the nature of capitalism to increase surplus capital and then destroy it again through a crash or war, in order to restart the accumulation process once again. After every crisis, as historical data shows, the rich get richer and capital concentration grows. The cycles from crash to crash are becoming shorter as the accumulation of surplus capital becomes faster.
El movimiento comunero en Venezuela
Construyendo utopías concretas
En el transcurso de la historia las utopías han jugado un papel importante en la construcción de alternativas sociales. En este artículo se analiza al mecanismo de autogobierno local venezolano de las comunas como prefiguración utópica o como “utopía concreta”. Se discuten diferentes conceptos marxistas y emancipadores de utopía conectándolos con el pensamiento latinoamericano, para demostrar cómo la prefiguración utópica es de considerar necesaria en los procesos de lucha revolucionaria.
