“The commune is the ideal place to propose a change of model”

Press MinComunas /Karina Depablos – According to Fernando Giuliani, social psychologist and professor at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), the commune is the ideal place to work, fundamental to decolonization.

“It is time to ask ourselves questions and problematize what we are and what we do. Thinking is a spiritual experience more than an intellectual exercise that must permeate practice. Amid the war, we proposed: the commune and the de-colonial approach. We have a long struggle in Latin America, although these are not new approaches. Freire said, in the 1960s, the first place where we must remove the oppressor is from the head of the oppressed. It turns out that the oppressed, in his subjectivity, in his horizon of realization, is to fit into the figure of the one who oppresses him,” he said.

During the opening of the workshop “What does it mean to think “from” Latin America,” from the People’s Power Ministry for Communes and Social Movements, Giuliani stated that thinking(us) must have fertile soil in the Bolivarian Revolution.

“Undoubtedly, we are facing a war. We must take care of the open debate spaces granted by the Ministry of Communes because we need them as much as we need bread. For me, this is a wonderful initiative. Juan Jose Bautista’s density is extraordinary. Collective construction is the key to decolonization. In public institutions, we expose ourselves to taskism because we are obliged to have answers. But, we also have to ask ourselves questions about our work, our reality, and our life,” he emphasized.

The researcher assured that, in confusing times, it is essential to debate, question, and generate liberating knowledge, indispensable for thought transformation and practice.

“We must also systematize the knowledge that emerges from the dialogue of knowledge. We need to produce and systematize from the perspective of the commune and popular power,” Giuliani added.

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