Ebook: Commune or Nothing!: Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project

Titled after the rallying cry of Venezuela’s communards, “¡Comuna o Nada!,” Commune or Nothing! portrays an expanding network of socialist communes pursuing the strategic goal of overcoming the entire capitalist social metabolism and also the state formations upon which the capital system relies. It is a viable alternative to the increasingly exploitative, destructive, and unsustainable capital system. Like the trailblazing movement it depicts, Commune or Nothing! offers important lessons not only regarding the construction of socialism in Venezuela, but for socialist praxis worldwide.
/////// Chris Gilbert is a professor of political studies at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela and creator and co-host of Escuela de Cuadros, a Marxist educational television program and podcast. Gilbert is co-author of Venezuela, The Present as Struggle (Monthly Review Press, 2020).