Let us start from the end. State, Power, Socialism (1978) is closed with a section entitled “Towards a democratic socialism” (Part Five). Poulantzas therein condensed basic tenets of his positioning before the debates around democracy and socialism running in the 1970s. These debates [...]
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The role of the indigenous population in the formation of the Bolivarian revolution is one of Latin America’s most important untold stories.
Considered a beacon of twenty-first century Socialism by many, Venezuela is the scenario of ongoing global struggles for the definition of [...]
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The recent departure of the late Eduardo Galeano, author of the classic Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America), highlights more than ever, especially since the late 1990s, that Latin America has been at the forefront of experiments with alternatives to [...]
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Barack Obama is a self-declared realist and makes no qualms about it. He admits that on occasion the USA will ‘twist the arm’ of governments that do not follow Washington’s suit. Rather casually, Obama presents such principles as something that comes along with his job – as if USA citizens [...]
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As I originally outlined on Venezuela Analysis, on July 18, two functionaries in the western state of Yaracuy received calls on their cell phones, supposedly from a government minister, asking them to go to a local hardware store that they had recently sanctioned for price gouging. They [...]
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