Everyday Revolutions by Marina A. Sitrin

Author:Marina A. Sitrin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2012-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

What autogestión looks like in Argentina

Empresas recuperadas

The writer and public intellectual Naomi Klein spent more than a year in Argentina after the popular rebellion. Her mission was to make a documentary with the filmmaker Avi Lewis, reflecting on what people were creating, not just what they were against. The result was the award-winning film, The Take, based on the experiences of recuperated workplaces. In an article she wrote in 2003, titled: ‘Argentina’s Luddite Rulers. Workers in the Occupied Factories Have a Different Vision: Smash the Logic, Not the Machines’, she states:

Here in Buenos Aires, every week brings news of a new occupation: a four-star hotel now run by its cleaning staff, a supermarket taken by its clerks, a regional airline about to be turned into a cooperative by the pilots and attendants. In small Trotskyist journals around the world, Argentina’s occupied factories, where the workers have seized the means of production, are giddily hailed as the dawn of a socialist utopia. In large business magazines like The Economist, they are ominously described as a threat to the sacred principle of private property. The truth lies somewhere in between.

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