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n venezuela seem to be the modern inspiration interview with venezuela s minister of communes angel prado a factual look at the status of communes in venezuela they are not in the constitution yet and have no regular financial dispensation from the government unlike local governments however 10k was recently awarded by the government to each commune with a project the communes legislate administer resources and manage their own means of production according to prado there are communal councils at the base of the commune with a communal bank parliament and various committees on different issues like sports or the economy property in the commune varies from communal public family and private the investment or reinvestment of the surplus is a key issue they are also armed prado compares chavismo to peronism in its diversity the communard union which he heads brings together 80 communes and is in every barrio in the country the immediate goal is to bring communes up to equal status with other branches of the government in financial and political power they are trying to reform the venezuelan constitution this year to give communes that power prado points out that other anti imperialist and nationalist movements absent communes ended up becoming another reformist state with a so called progressive government that fails to transform existing state structures any look at latin or central american history will confirm this observation to my mind all this reflects venezuela as a transitional state still dominated by capital but with organized structures of proletarian and peasant power existing socialist communes and anti imperialism chris gilbert this article concentrates on the communes in venezuela and secondarily bolivia it notes that anti imperialism is not separate from anti capitalism this should be news to the legions of anti socialist geo political analysts found on progressive websites the venezuelan and bolivian communes both came into being in the context of anti imperialist struggle in bolivia the mas which just lost an election after 20 years was relying on indigenous cooperative allyus to use as a base for socialism in brazil the peasant based mst pushes for peoples agrarian reform when it occupies under utilized or unused land gilbert makes no claim as to the construction of communes in brazil only of collective management of land after occupations russian peasant mir commune gilbert like many others in this magazine brings up marx s research into the communal peasant russian mir arab and berber communal property relations peruvian allyus indian peasant communities mexican collective settlements the iroquois confederation and more marx s letter to vera zasulich and his ethnographic notebooks bear out the contention that these older forms could be used to advance modern socialism marx made this explicit regarding a russian revolution he made it clear that the collective obchshina still had to use modern technology and be linked together marx was not calling for pure self management isolated agrarian outposts or some anarcho romantic throwback not linked to a national and even international plan chavez also called for the unity of communes in some sort of communal state gilbert clearly counters people like degrowth s kohei saito who contends marx only came to this understanding of early communal forms much later gilbert links marx s later insights to earlier works like the grundrisse and capital oddly gilbert gives credit for this communal understanding to 1980s 90s bolivian marxist alyaro linera and not to jose carlos mariategui peruvian marxist mariategui discussed the value of the allyu back in the 1920s the worker peasant alliance in the transition to socialism today p patnaik u patnaik this article focuses on india which still has a large peasant population unlike the u s europe and other countries they cite engels and lenin in an uninterrupted revolution not a stagist one going from a democratic revolution led by proletarian elements involving the peasantry and petit bourgeoisie to a socialist one the patnaiks argue that unlike stalin s practice in the ussr upper bracket rich peasants kulaks must not be purged nor should cooperatives or collective farms be forced on farmers they contend that the key re kulaks is that they will not bring back capital in the countryside because mere partial involvement in the market is not commodity production nor is trading labor or goods with others nor is personal trading or sales when there is a conflict between different peasant strata they theorize that the revolutionary state should intervene on behalf of poorer peasants in mediations i imagine a rich farmer might go beyond these parameters after awhile they recognize that the national bourgeoisie in india is integrated with capitalists in other nations including the top imperialists they contend that all third world nations have a peasantry which is the most sizeable force against neo liberal capital or dictatorship they have no statistics on this assertion the caste system in india creates divisions among farmers the farmers still led a year long struggle against 3 farm laws that would remove support pricing along with opposing international firms getting involved in contract farming with indian farmers cooperative farm in india the authors stand up for individual rights as without them outcasts cannot actually join a collective so a real community requires individual rights too they have an excellent section on the 6 benefits of cooperative farming as opposed to individual farming 1 no boundary waste 2 pooled resources 3 better land use due to more land being available 4 crops needing minimal cultivation allow work on other plots 5 machinery collectively owned 6 de centralized decision making on that last one 6 the authors again come up to the conundrum in a number of these articles that de link agrarian work from the rest of a socialized economy hinting at an isolated village commune instead this problem also revolves around the phrase self management used by others marx and communal society j b foster foster goes deeply into marx s research into early communal forms and his embrace of the paris commune as an example of a dictatorship of the proletariat when the majority of plebeians and workers held power not the rich the nobles or the capitalists these included common tillage in india the mark system of common tenure and collective production in germany the clan communes in peru bolivia and ecuador called allyus greek communal property alongside private property and the iroquois confederacy haudenosaunee use of long houses holding multiple families marx studied morgan phear maine and lubbock to understand these early communistic traditions engels collected his insights and used them in writing origins of the family private property and the state rosa luxemburg later followed this same line of investigation in her studies of colonialism s impact on collectivity in occupied countries marx himself started his journalistic career defending peasants right to collect dead wood from private forests of most interest is foster s points that marx didn t use the term primitive communism or theorize greece and rome as a slave societies or use asiatic mode of production other than to mean village communities in india and java this contradicts what was theorized or generalized by later marxists italian urban communes were run by guilds of merchants forming the seed of the bourgeoisie but they had to overcome their original collective nature to this day the formal name of most italian towns is communa di the 1789 french revolution was known as the paris commune too according to foster the second 1871 paris commune abolished the death penalty child labor and conscription while eliminating debts the workers were organized into cooperative societies to run the factories with plans to organize the cooperatives into one big union a women s union was created as well as a system of universal secular education instant recall universal male suffrage and wages for officials at a workers wage were also instituted all of this was groundbreaking end of part 1 prior blogspot reviews on this subject use blog search box upper left to investigate our 19 year archive using these terms monthly review paris commune allyu mariategui meszaros workers councils saito commune council obchshina mir foster and i bought it at may day s periodicals section red frog august 26 2025 posted by red frog at 11 04 am no comments saturday august 23 2025 from ripen to rotten the american communist party acp if you are familiar with leftists that sometimes sound like right wingers this outfit is the epitome of that i e trumpist marxist leninists you know that guy who thinks abortion is racist like the brownshirts in germany or the lyndon larouche sect s workers party the acp parades as leftist in some of its pronouncements and program while leaning to the right this is meant to confuse and disorganize an actual left behind some standard left rhetoric they are also anti feminist anti gay anti environmental pro general tax cuts and pro maga they promote social patriotism you will notice the hammer and sickle superimposed over the stripes of the u s flag in their logo they are russophiles no matter the class character of that country right now as russia is supposedly the leading anti imperialist they are heavily pro stalin and close to the cp of the russian federation kprf they support the russian invasion of ukraine to the hilt they are also sinophiles backing china and xi jinping thought they claim they came out of the u s communist party cp in 2024 but two of the founders hinkle and al din were never in the cp according to the cp they have praised the reactionary theocrat khomeini as a great anti imperialist and formed a block with the patriotic party in turkey which is pro erdogan a capitalist turkish ultra nationalist alexander dugin a far right russian nationalist praised them for being allies of tucker carlson and trump by opposing u s liberalism of course there are other ways to oppose liberalism from the actual left the cp alexander ross yanis varoufakis and others correctly identify the acp as influenced by russian national bolshevism seeking red brown unity so they are a current almost darkly comic version of anti communist strasserism it is a conservative and nationalistic socialism i e national socialism and we know how that goes their leadership is vitriolic their rhetoric vile and their stance thuggish they blame george soros as victor orban the right wing leader of hungary does for being behind bad woke communism that is a funny one they wanted pardons for the jan 6 rioters yearn to institute patriotic education call gays pedophiles and want to ban antifa demonstrations there is more but why go on the acp is the logical end rot at the heart of stalinoid conservatism and authoritarian thinking an affliction affecting some so called u s leftists they could also be a police or paid front they should be walled off from the left a crib mostly from wikipedia i have no reason to doubt it in this case p s in a book on fbi infiltration of the left aaron leonard and connor gallagher note that the fbi set up a fake marxist leninist organization in chicago in the late 1960s early 1970s claiming to be a faction of the cp prior blogspot reviews on this subject us blog search box upper left to investigate our 19 year archive using these terms trumpen left national bolshevism strasser brownshirt rohm 3 rd position red frog august 23 2025 posted by red frog at 8 22 am no comments tuesday august 19 2025 chomping chomsky who rules the world by noam chomsky 2016 this title might have you reflect on prior books that analyze the transnational capitalist class the holdings of various private equity and banking firms their world spanning political and economic organizations their military arms even their hold on culture books in that line have been written about the u s too but chomsky doesn t go there here he engages in his consistent method of looking at history current political events journalistic malpractice and linguistic tricks to illustrate the u s s long record of hypocrisy and military intervention while alluding to shadowy groups of wealthy people and bankrolling corporations he keeps it almost purely on the political plane this is a problem exhibited by certain anarchists and left liberals who downgrade and ignore capitalist economics in their hot takes as if a military and journalistic establishment doesn t have an economic base he does have a chapter on the sorry state of the domestic union movement but this will remind you that everything in this book has been written about by dozens of others before and after 2016 he has a chapter on the mis directions of the top ruling class paper the new york times an investigation which has been done to death too if this is all new to you be my guest and buy the book for the rest of us while the problem here might be the age of the book yes it s view is basically inaccurate chomsky implies that the u s rules the world as a nation state even though he says that rule peaked after wwii 71 years earlier now 80 years ago he doesn t think the collapse of the ussr the u s s main class opponent made any difference this might be because he identifies every state as state capitalist including the ussr and china by identifying a nation as the ruler he hides the capitalist class ruling that nation this is a common activist framing but for a professor it s a bit short in the pants class is not his thing at the very end of the book chomsky admits in a brief aside that while it is conventional to view world politics through a national lens the real masters of mankind are the merchants and industrialists that control states yet his book remains exclusively focused on the conventional what is horrifying about this collection of essays which is the style chomsky writes in now is that every problem discussed in the book has only gotten worse since 2016 israel and palestine gaza iran nuclear confrontation refugees the republican party evangelical christianity the weak democrats climate change and the military conflict with russia were all here 9 years ago it ends with an afterward about the trump election in 2016 framing it as the triumph of a republican party that is now a radical insurgency not a regular party and which threatens the future of mankind due to its position on global warming as if capitalist oil plastics retail military meat and now computer tech companies have nothing to do with their politics the book catalogs like many others do the prior coups assassinations cover ups and wars carried out by the u s for overt claims of humanism fighting terrorism or communism for freedom or just plain because the u s is the chosen nation bringing the light of its archaic democracy to the world none of this nonsense is unfamiliar to le...