Politics State Communism

<p><b>Edited by Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda</b> Politics State Communism brings together a series of speeches written by Álvaro García Linera in a unique political conjuncture: some date back to when he was serving as vice president of Bolivia others to the period immediately after the coup d'état of November 2019. These writings cover a wide range of political subjects: social movements and forms of autonomy in Bolivia; democracy and its function in late capitalism; the discrepancy between national and capitalist spaces; the Russian October Revolution as an event and its resonances in other parts of the world; the concept and function of the state; and finally the idea of communism in its relation to necessity and contingency.</p>