Press MinComunas. – Juan Carlos Rodriguez, a militant researcher of community experiences in Venezuela, assured that demystifying modernity is a relevant and necessary task in the global South.
“We need to constitute a new horizon that recovers the communitarian dimension of human life. From the decolonial movement and with debate, we must demystify the fiction of the possibility of the future that modernity has become and start recovering and building new utopias where community life is at the center,” he said.
Likewise, he explained that, with the Coup de Timon, Commander Hugo Chavez said that the commune’s spirit is more important than the commune.
“That idea is a call to build a new subjectivity, a new utopia, a new communal spirituality. We must recover the sense of the common, which was expropriated and appropriated by modernity, and re-communalize the city. The common and the uniqueness are two key elements to rebuild and recover the community’s dimension,” he said.
For the Venezuelan researcher, humanity needs to recover the vision of the unity of one with the other, breaking with this individualistic approach. “Only in the community is the reproduction of human life possible,” said Rodriguez.
