[lbo-talk] PBS special on socialist housing co-ops

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

It depends on your definition of what a state is.  500 cooperatives or
worker owned/occupied factories that have a joint assembly and an armed
militia for self-defense is a state, just a different kind of state.

But I think Venezuela has shown that if working and poor people mobilize
themselves in the electoral realm and achieve a mere parliamentary victory,
this combined with the tool of constitutional reform can equate to a
revolution.  And this power from above can foster power from below.  There's
no need for the John Holloway approach.