Which Way Out of the Venezuelan Crisis?
As Venezuelans go to the polls this Sunday, the country faces a choice between deepening revolution and an elite-enforced rollback.
George Ciccariello-Maher is the author of We Created Chávez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution (Duke, 2013); Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela (Jacobin-Verso: 2016); and Decolonizing Dialectics (Duke, 2017).
As Venezuelans go to the polls this Sunday, the country faces a choice between deepening revolution and an elite-enforced rollback.
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