Edited by Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda, "Politics, State, Communism" brings together a series of speecheswritten by Álvaro García Linera in a unique political conjuncture: somedate back to when he was serving as vice president of Bolivia, others to the period immediately after the coup d'état of November 2019. Thesewritings cover a wide range of political subjects: social movements andforms of autonomy in Bolivia; democracy and its function in latecapitalism; the discrepancy between national and capitalist spaces; theRussian October Revolution as an event, and its resonances in otherparts of the world; the concept and function of the state; and, finally, the idea of communism in its relation to necessity and contingency.
Before becoming Bolivia's vice-president, Alvaro Garcia Linera was one of Latin America's foremost intellectuals. This is his most famous work.
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