Skip to main content

Home/ Groups/ Communtarian socialism Bolivia
Rss Feed
Sort By: Most Recent | Popular Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
4More

Federico Fuentes, "Bolivia: Social Tensions Erupt" - 1 views

mrzine.monthlyreview.org/...fuentes150810.html bolivia communitarian evo morales socialism
shared by Arabica Robusta on 21 Aug 10 - Cached
  • The first wave of this cycle peaked with the overthrow of the-president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in October 2003, when a diverse range of worker, peasant, and indigenous organizations first united against the government's attempts to cheaply export the country's gas via Chile.  The movement demanded the president's resignation following the massacre of more than 60 people. A second wave of resistance brought down his successor in June 2005, again with diverse organizations uniting around the issue of gas.  This paved the way for Morales' victory in December 2005 presidential election, with a historic 54.7% of the vote.
  • Fierce resistance from the traditional elites, who felt they were being pushed out of power, triggered the third, most powerful revolutionary wave in this cycle of struggle.
  • However, the combined action of Morales' government, the social movements, and the armed forces crushed the coup attempt in September 2008, a blow the opposition has yet to fully recover from.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Ironically, while its electoral base grew to 64% in December 2009, the MAS itself was greatly weakened. While the MAS was born in the countryside, where the structures of the "political instrument" and the powerful peasant and indigenous organizations were one and the same, it began to expand into the cities following its 2005 victory, where social organizations are much weaker and individual affiliation prevailed. In many cases, due to the lack of trained professionals in the peasant and indigenous organizations, Morales was forced to rely on "invitees" from the already existing state bureaucracy to run the government. Most of Morales' first cabinet came from these sectors, causing concern among the founding organizations of the MAS, who felt they were not being treated as they should be, with quotas in the government. While the relatively autonomous social organizations united to defend "their" government during times of intense confrontation, they have also tended to retreat to more local and sectoral demands.
4More

Q&A: "Morales Is a Guide in a Long Period of Change" - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

www.ipsnews.net/news.asp bolivia communitarian evo morales socialism
shared by Arabica Robusta on 18 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Under drizzling rain, we took the monolith back to Tiwanaku, and since then, food production has grown and we have been eating potatoes that are so big only one fits in your two hands.
  • And will the k'aras be allowed to take part in that culture? A: We are not their enemies; we want peace, tranquillity and the freedom to live in unity; we are just opposed to looting and theft [of natural resources by lighter-skinned elites in indigenous territory] because they are crimes. If they generate work, their activities are welcome, but we must focus on major projects to pull people out of poverty, and to bring about the change we must free ourselves of the impurities of politics.
  • The people must generate their own change, which is not Evo - he is just a guide.
  • Arabica Robusta on 18 Apr 10
     
    "The people must generate their own change, which is not Evo - he is just a guide."
5More

Communitarian Socialism in Bolivia | openDemocracy - 0 views

www.opendemocracy.net/...unitarian-socialism-in-bolivia socialism bolivia opendemocracy communitarian morales evo
shared by Arabica Robusta on 18 Apr 10 - Cached
  • new governments take control politically, with the previous economic system largely intact. In Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador, where the socialist discourse is the most advanced, constituent assemblies were convened to draft new constitutions that restructured the political system and established broad social rights.
  • Now, with the consolidation of the new political system and the plurinational state, socialism has been placed on the agenda.
  • In a state of clandestinity, we have upheld our values, economic forms, our own types of communitarian organization, which are all being reappraised now. This is why we are incorporating into socialism something that has resisted for 500 years - the communitarian element. We want to build our own socialism.”
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • ‘When it comes to foreign investment, we don’t want bosses; we want partners.’
  • For Evo Morales, the necessity for socialism is global and urgent, given the state of the planet. “If capitalism produces crises in the financial system, in energy, in food, in the environment, in climatic change, then what good is this capitalism that brings us so many crises? … What is the solution? I am convinced that it is socialism, for some socialism of the 21st century, for others communitarian socialism.”
1 - 8 of 8
Showing 20▼ items per page