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Different levels of non-representative direct democracy, workers' control, and self-management organized in councils and collaborating at a higher level are supposed to build a new kind of bottom up administration in Venezuela. The concept is advanced by popular movements. While the government officially supports the idea, it is at the same time blocking the transformation.
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This page is a summary of: The Communal State: Communal Councils, Communes, and Workplace Democracy, NACLA Report on the Americas, January 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10714839.2013.11721992.
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