{"product_id":"only-the-people-can-save-the-people","title":"Only the People Can Save the People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the egalitarian, creative, and inclusive practice of radical democracy in contemporary Venezuela.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a global historical moment of growing mobilizations against inequality, corruption, and exclusion, \u003ci\u003eOnly the People Can Save the People\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the necessity and challenges of more egalitarian approaches to collective life from one of the most tumultuous and compelling experiments in radical democracy. Donald V. Kingsbury examines twenty-first-century Venezuelan politics from the perspective of constituent power-the egalitarian, creative, and inclusive practice of radical democracy. In the aftermath of neoliberal structural adjustment, Venezuelan politics have been increasingly reconfigured according to principles of \u003ci\u003eautogestión\u003c\/i\u003e (self-management), social movement autonomy, protagonistic and participatory democracy, and anti-capitalism. However, inherited and intensifying challenges arising from Venezuela's status as a petrostate, the class and racial divisions that define its society, and the difficulties of defining what Hugo Chávez termed \"socialism for the twenty-first century\" have resulted in a tumultuous process of social change. Informed by ethnography, contemporary and comparative political thought, and global political economy, \u003ci\u003eOnly the People Can Save the People\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how constituent power is shaping collective identity, political conflict, and infrastructural space in contemporary Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410336633176,"sku":"9781438469645","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781438469645.jpg?v=1777896026","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/only-the-people-can-save-the-people","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}