The communes as an advanced model of organization within Bolivarian socialism By Jesus Rojas

Given the necessary historical task of building Venezuelan socialism in the XXI century that the Bolivarian revolutionary forces have been advancing in our country, the principal challenges, include providing models for alternative forms of decision making, management and social control mainly in economic production as well as the productive development of the public life of people in different social spaces. Venezuelan bolivarian socialism is unique, and it has been emerging from the creative potential of the people in the transformative search of social reality enhancing the decentralization, promoting various forms of social ownership and new social relations of production subject to popular control. With the active participation of individuals from their own community spaces communal councils are actively involved in planning the productive potential development according to their abilities, characteristics and circumstances that arise. Now the communal councils emerge in communes, and raise their revolutionary conception, the momentum of development of the organized communities for productive and social growth according to their specific realities that are manifest in their environment. The fundamental task of maximizing organizational levels, aimed at achieving self-managed planning, is the goal. The communes are presented as the advanced model of organization, whose sole purpose is the establishment of the model of a socialist communal state to ensure a more efficient, rational and fair local government, a more harmonious and balanced local development, bringing together all communities organized in a particular sector to a general organic overview of coexistence in all political, social, economic and cultural realms. Creating and developing internally in the communes, productive endogenous development proposals aimed at the autonomous growth of communities as a whole, according to their circumstances establishing relations of equality and equity in the fair distribution of wealth. Overcoming the idea and practice of so called representative democracy and definitely taking away the power from the national bourgeoisie, who are traitorous, genocidal and terrorists who use the resources of local government to finance coups, assassination attempts, the overthrowing of bolivarian government, all kinds of sabotage and the US invasion of our territory to plunder our resources and reimpose the lost hegemony with the irruption of the Bolivarian socialist revolution. To cite just one example of community organization and popular power in my city of Carora. State of Lara we have “the reclamation of exhibition complex, which has always been municipal property, but for many years it had been of the exclusive use of local agricultural oligarchy - large landowners and producers who for centuries had controlled and dominated the local production. The exhibition complex consequently was its exclusive “enclave”. The facilities of the fair were taken by the city. The municipal offices of citizen participation and popular power, the municipal water company and Endogenous Development Institute, now occupy the premises of the fair. After the municipal reclamation, the oligarchs shouted from the rooftops that the fair would disappear, that it would succumb to abandonment and neglect, no one would be able to manage it. As if that were not enough, the oligarchs called the small producers and the municipal government, assholes! But how wrong were the oligarchs! The fair facilities today, are full of activity and its corridors are always full of social promoters, of communers, and local residents - Now the faces of all who live and work here radiate pride and dignity accompanied by the recognition of their important role in favor of the comprehensive community development.