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... the development of organs of power external to the Party. I conclude with a consideration of the way in which the notion of the commune poses a countermodel for thinking political organization that any current reconsideration of the party form must address. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 References...

...George Ciccariello-Maher When Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez died in March 2013, he left behind an unfulfilled dream that was never his alone: that of the “communal state.” Amid the complicated maneuvering of the post-Chávez era, this aspiration—which would see the expansion and unification...

...Werner Bonefeld; John Holloway © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Werner Bonefeld and John Holloway Commune, Movement, Negation: Notes from Tomorrow...

... of the global South, before turning to overlooked experiments taking place in Venezuela’s communes. I argue that while grassroots planning in Venezuela mirrors all of the inherent and deepening contradictions of the Bolivarian Revolution, the self-managed socialism of the communes represents the only...

...Gavin Walker Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the term communism has returned to the theoretical and historical agenda with a striking force and a surprising novelty. In a wide range of fields of knowledge, the questions of the actuality and the history of the world communist movement...

...Alessandro Russo The new debate on communism requires exploring two essential distinctions: between a political and a philosophical term, and between experimental and governmental communism. This twofold division, this article argues, has a contemporary urgency, which is based on an assessment...

... their already precarious architecture and design. I explore the ideological and material ruins of incarceration, wherein irregular bodies of sovereign force (death squads legitimized by emergency) and new expressions of criminal community ( maras ) offer divergent incarnations of political power. The essay’s...

...Sandro Mezzadra; Brett Neilson Arguing that the actuality of communism cannot be abstracted from the materiality of politics, this article engages with the works of Bruno Bosteels and Jodi Dean by affirming the radical innovation produced by the qualification of communism as a “real movement...

...Susana Draper This essay connects Jodi Dean’s and Bruno Bosteels’s works on the “horizon” and the “actuality” of communism with some of the problems that constituted the political landscape during the past decade in Bolivia and in the past years (2011-13) of Occupy Wall Street. It proposes...

... . Nancy Jean-Luc . 1991 . The Inoperative Community . Translated by Connor Peter . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Oldenziel Ruth . 2011 . “ Islands: The United States as Networked Empire .” In Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War...

... forces in South Africa. For the first time since the democratic breakthrough in 1994, there is a very real possibility of forging a mass-based and sustained, united front of action for labor and community struggles. Translating possibility into practice will be difficult. Even if there is much...

...Elena Chernolutskaya 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Translated by Julia Trubikhina Elena Chernolutskaya Religious Communities in Harbin and Ethnic Identity of Russian Emigrés The atmosphere of religious and national tol- erance...

... combate a la pobreza en América Latina (Counterinsurgency and Poverty: The Policies for Fighting Poverty in Latin America) . Mexico City : Pez en el Árbol . Katerina Nasioka Communities of Crisis: Ruptures as Common Ties during Class Struggles in Greece, 2011–2012...

...Gladys Tzul Tzul Can the presence of indebtedness and microfinance policies in communal lands in Guatemala be understood and characterized only as a form of domination and exploitation from above? No, they cannot. They cannot, firstly, because in communal lands, life is organized through...

... are pushing back against powerful assemblages and infrastructures, creating the conditions for continued life in multispecies communities. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 indigeniety hunter-gatherers infrastructure genocide race References Ahmed Sara . 2010 . The Promise...

...Enzo Traverso Historicizing communism means overcoming the dichotomy between two narratives—one idyllic and the other horrific—as radically opposed as fundamentally alike. Several decades after its exhaustion, the communist experience does not need to be idealized or demonized; it deserves...

...Diana Allan Drawing on ethnographic material from Shatila camp in Beirut and the informal gathering of Jal el Bahr in Tyre, in southern Lebanon, this article explores the possibilities suggested by various forms of collaborative practice within these marginalized communities. As the Palestinian...

.... However, in “Critical Care,” I add a third case in a midrange scale: the care community. The care community is a voluntary social formation, composed of friends, family, and neighbors, that coalesces around someone in need. It is my contention that by exploring the care community, we can make important...

... Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 SAQ Sports Community Album 562 Golden Phil Deloria in 1972. Junior equestrienne Priscilla Lane in 1944- Sports Community Album 563 Being like Mike Oriard at Notre Dame in 1969 (Bradley Photographers, Dallas). 564 Cross-country runner James J...

...Robbie Lieberman The Culture of Politics: Communism, Americanism, and the People s Songs Hootenanny Robbie Lieberman In the summer of 1941 Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger attended a sing­ ing party in Seattle which the locals called a Hootenanny. In the fall of 1941 the Almanac Singers Woody...