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Marta Harnecker’s Venezuela — After the Elections: What Is to Be Done? and Marx, Luxembourg and Lenin on the Role of Cooperatives
Stansfield Smith criticizes Marta Harnecker's recent article about the post-electoral situation.
Mural representing the alliance of workers and peasants. (Archive)
By Stansfield Smith - Chicago ALBA Solidarity
Stansfield Smith, a longtime Venezuelanalysis supporter, argues below that Marta Harnecker, like many other theorists who address Venezuela's Bolivarian Process, has put too much emphasis on advances that focus on the commune and cooperatives. Invoking the authority of Marx, Lenin and Luxembourg, Smith claims that the dream of "Commune or Nothing" needs to wait until workers and peasants cont...