Within the Horizon of an Actuality: The State and the Commons in the Eternal Return of Communism

This essay connects Jodi Dean’s and Bruno Bosteels’s works on the “horizon” and the “actuality” of communism with some of the problems that constituted the political landscape during the past decade in Bolivia and in the past years (2011-13) of Occupy Wall Street. It proposes that the old issues tha...

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Published in:The South Atlantic quarterly 2014-10, Vol.113 (4), p.807-820
Main Author: Draper, Susana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brazil
Communism
Cultural Studies
History
Latin American Studies
Marxism
Political power
Political Theory
Politics
Theory and Philosophy
Translation
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Summary:This essay connects Jodi Dean’s and Bruno Bosteels’s works on the “horizon” and the “actuality” of communism with some of the problems that constituted the political landscape during the past decade in Bolivia and in the past years (2011-13) of Occupy Wall Street. It proposes that the old issues that composed the problematic of dual power in the Latin America of the seventies are transposed into the present in the guise of the question regarding the commons and the state. To stage this, the article traces a brief history of the transformation of the question, from René Zavaleta Mercado’s accounts of various situations of dual power in the Bolivia of the 1960s and early 1970s to Raquel Gutiérrez’s transformation/translation of some of Zavaleta Mercado’s positions in
ISSN:0038-2876
1527-8026
DOI:10.1215/00382876-2803668