Bøger af Geo Maher

A journey through Venezuela's experiments in radical democracy, after the age of Chavez

If police are the problem, what's the solution?

If police are the problem, what's the solution?

We study revolutionary change not simply to understand it. We study revolution to make it.

George Ciccariello-Maher brings the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a decolonized dialectics that is suited to the struggle against the legacies of slavery and colonialism while also breaking the impasse between dialectics and postcolonial theory.

This history of Venezuelan politics from below tells how militants, students, women, Afro-indigeneous peoples, and the working-class brought about Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution and, ultimately, brought Hugo Chavez to power.