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.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
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.”6:02 Slavoj Zizek – Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences2017-10-06 · 2:02:10
“It's either bankrupt or taken over by the state or reprivatized or whatever.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Michele Bachmann1Eric Miller1Matteotti1Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck1Jacques Milner1Dr. O'Brien-Bell1Winston Smith1Matthew McConaughey1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
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
6:02 Slavoj Zizek – Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences2017-10-06 · 2:02:10
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
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