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The Venezuelan Factory Failure

anecdote · personal/autobiographical · retold in 3 talks

A leftist friend checked factories given to workers by the Chavez government and found none succeeded; they were simply bankrupted and reprivatized, showing the failure of self-organization without structural change.

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As told 3

“Not even one was a success either they were simply bankrupted reprivatized government directly took over”
“It was almost always a fiasco. Fiasco was unfortunately the rule.”
“It's either bankrupt or taken over by the state or reprivatized or whatever.”
~1:47:58 At Nuit Blache2012-09-29 · 2:06:58

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contents · one story, 2 jobsuses
Lula model ×1 war communism ×1

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A leftist friend checked factories given to workers by the Chavez government and found none succeeded; they were simply bankrupted and reprivatized, showing the failure of self-organization without structural change., illustrating Lula model,revolution-violence
A leftist friend of Žižek tracked worker-run factories in Venezuela, noting that whenever Chávez announced a factory was given to workers, it was almost always a fiasco a year later., illustrating communism-socialism,revolution-violence
~1:47:58 At Nuit Blache2012-09-29 · 2:06:58
A leftist friend in Venezuela visits worker-controlled factories a year after their triumphant media coverage and finds them bankrupt, re-nationalized, or reprivatized, Žižek's evidence that local community alternatives don't scale., illustrating limits of local communities,left strategy,communism