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We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution Tapa blanda – 17 Abril 2013
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Based on interviews with grassroots organizers, former guerrillas, members of neighborhood militias, and government officials, Ciccariello-Maher presents a new history of Venezuelan political activism, one told from below. Led by leftist guerrillas, women, Afro-Venezuelans, indigenous people, and students, the social movements he discusses have been struggling against corruption and repression since 1958. Ciccariello-Maher pays particular attention to the dynamic interplay between the Chávez government, revolutionary social movements, and the Venezuelan people, recasting the Bolivarian Revolution as a long-term and multifaceted process of political transformation.
- Número de páginas352 páginas
- IdiomaInglés
- EditorialDuke University Press
- Fecha de publicación17 Abril 2013
- Dimensiones6.1 x 0.9 x 9.2 pulgadas
- ISBN-100822354527
- ISBN-13978-0822354529
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"In the United States, accounts of Venezuela have been fixated on the figure of Hugo Chávez. We Created Chávez breaks with this obsession, instead showing the dynamic and contradictory relationship that exists between Venezuela's president and the social forces that gave rise to and sustain the government. It is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the internal dynamics of social change underway in Venezuela today."—Miguel Tinker Salas, author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela
“Ciccariello-Maher’s history of the Venezuelan left is essential to understanding the Chávez era.”―Dorothy Kronick, The New Republic
“Terrific.”―Greg Grandin, The Nation
“[A] crisply written social and political history of the critical decades leading up to Chávez's election in 1998. . . . For those who want to see the revolution continue, Ciccariello-Maher has made a critical contribution to our understanding, which is in and of itself enough to recommend this book without reservation. But more than that, We Created Chávez brilliantly demonstrates how social history scholarship can mine the lived experiences of rank-and-file activists and radical leaders for precious stones, and then set those gems in a visible and rigorous theoretical frame that allows us to see history in motion.”―Todd Chretien, Socialist Worker
“I've been looking for this book for years.”―Steve Henshall, Socialist Review
"In addition to providing readers with an irreplaceable genealogy of the Revolutionary Left in Venezuela and its role in the making of the present, We Created Chávez deftly illustrates the tensions between constituent and constituted power that make the Bolivarian Revolution a dialectical process rather than a presidential term in office. We Created Chávez is also a masterful contribution to a thankfully growing body of work responding to dominant portrayals of the Bolivarian process in Venezuela enraptured or enraged by the figure of el Comandante.”―Donald V. Kingsbury, Theory & Event
“In We Created Chávez, George Ciccariello-Maher offers a masterful ‘people’s history’ of Venezuela…. Through Ciccariello-Maher’s analysis, a Venezuela easily and often ignored both by academia and by the popular press becomes visible. It is this Venezuela from which post-Chávez popular politics will be forged; Ciccariello-Maher offers valuable insight into what the coming years may bring.”―Erica S. Simmons, Latin American Politics and Society
"We Created Chavez is likely to be a point of reference for anyone seeking to assess chavismo as a seminal case of popular resistance to neoliberal globalization, as well as its relevance to twenty-first-century socialism."―Daniel Hellinger, Hispanic American Historical Review
"If . . . you want an engaging book that, in the service of a revolutionist mythos, narrates the actions and ideas of many people often neglected by scholars, you may appreciate We Created Chavez."―Jonathan Eastwood, American Historical Review
Biografía del autor
George Ciccariello-Maher is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Drexel University.
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- Editorial : Duke University Press (17 Abril 2013)
- Idioma : Inglés
- Tapa blanda : 352 páginas
- ISBN-10 : 0822354527
- ISBN-13 : 978-0822354529
- Dimensiones : 6.1 x 0.9 x 9.2 pulgadas
- Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº1,465,634 en Libros (Ver el Top 100 en Libros)
- nº48 en Historia Venezolana
- nº764 en Política Caribeña y Latinoamericana
- nº63,466 en Ciencias Sociales (Libros)
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Geo Maher is a Philadelphia-based organizer, writer, and educator, and currently Visiting Associate Professor at Vassar College. He has held visiting posts in the Decolonizing Humanities Project at the College of William and Mary, the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics at New York University and the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and has taught previously at Drexel University, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas.
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In the end, as in the author’s pamphlet “Building the Commune”, the only way to save the Bolivarian Revolution from reactionary regression is to bet it all on the Communes. If not and the state becomes disconnected from people power, as the author writes, like Robespierre and Toussaint, the revolution will guillotine itself.
Ciccariello-Maher’s writing lays bare what is missing from present media coverage about Venezuela, the complex voice of the people in the barrios, campesinos, and militant revolutionaries. There are no elite voices romantically trying to convince you how great things were before Chavez, because these people were struggling before Chavez. And it’s their efforts that created Chavez. And the poor and “wretched” (Fanon refs abound in this book) that the rich fear will always be there with, without, and even against Chavez.
Another recommended companion book to this is often cited within this book and it is called “Venezuela Speaks”. It is comprised of interviews of grassroots movements in Venezuela.
And lastly, shame on the reactionary conservatives that have review bombed this book. Ciccariello-Maher’s work will be an indispensable contribution to understanding Chavismo and 21st century Latin American history.
I myself really quite enjoyed this book, I bought it because I am incredibly interested in the situation over in Venezuela, but was equally worried about distortion and possibly misrepresentations from sources such as the Bolivarian government and major media outlets. This book focuses on the people and movements that built into the revolution, and interviews many participants of the movements past and present, as well as painting a very useful image of why these things left Venezuela today, making an effort to prove that Chavez didn't create this movement, he merely seized upon a growing current and empowered it. Definitely worth the read to anyone interested in an impartial view of Venezuela, as both approving and dissenting views are shown, with neither being given precedence over the other.
The book includes interviews from Anarchists and gives an the reader idea of how they interact with Chavismo and the Venezuelan government: with support, if from a critical perspective. Further things detailed are attempts to build Communes, the general expansion of "communal power" (direct democracy) and how Communal Councils function and what some have accomplished, and perhaps most importantly to any modern Leftist it details early attempts at instituting workplace democracy. There are citations provided at the end of the book as well as recommended sources for further self-education.
A very lovely book, all in all.
Overall, I found the book rather thought provoking and YES, a good read. Ciccariello-Maher employs a "history from below" approach in retelling the events that led to the 1998 election of Hugo Chávez. Therefore, Ciccariello-Maher places emphasis on how the various aspects of the revolutionary movements by people brought Chávez into power. This is opposed to prior scholarship that has largely focused on the perspectives and how those in leadership roles were effected during the four decades covered in the book.
So before you dismiss this book all together, I highly recommend giving it a chance. It truly is worth reading, if for nothing more than to gain a different view of this very complicated and crucial time period in Venezuela's history.





