PSCI 3684 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pachacuti, Oscar Olivera, Achacachi

• School: Virginia Tech
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 3684
• Professor: Copeland

Document Summary

Challenges capitalist social relations & state centered political projects. Questions the aspirations to power of the traditional left and the centralizing tendencies of the movement towards socialism (mas) Conceives of modern societies as made up of antagonistic groups subordinated to capital under the illusion of being integrated into conflictive totalities permeated by relationships of exploitation. April 9, 2000: peasants & neighbors in cocha took control of the water utility aguas del. Tu(cid:374)ari, a(cid:374)(cid:374)ou(cid:374)(cid:272)ed a(cid:374) e(cid:374)d to the (cid:272)o(cid:374)tra(cid:272)t that pri(cid:448)atized the regio(cid:374)"s (cid:449)ater management to a subsidiary of the u. s transnational bechtel co. Same day ^^, aymara community members stormed achacachi and free prisoners & emptied public offiices. 1: the coalition for the defense of water & life: the massive public defiance of state order. Water war = (cid:271)egi(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g of the boli(cid:448)ia(cid:374) people"s struggle to regai(cid:374) so(cid:272)ial age(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455) agai(cid:374)st the plundering of public resources, key event in struggle to recover common property.