Abstract In contrast to more orthodox visions that have tended to define communism as the satisfaction of needs through the centralized planning of markets, Raúl Prada sets out to analyze communism as “the real movement that abolished the present state of things.” This alternative vision of communism must start, then, from an analysis of the multitudinous actualization of community and collective forms—the constituent and creative matrix—of the revolts that have occurred in Bolivia and throughout Latin America in the last two decades. From this perspective, it becomes evident that it is within these movements that new horizons of visibility—new concepts—have been produced, forcing us to rethink the relation between philosophy and social movements and, alternatively, to propose a philosophy of social movements. In other words, this essay concludes by foregrounding the following questions: How do multitudes think? What is a collective thinking? We are accustomed to attributing thought to the subject and to circumscribing self-consciousness to the individual, but where does this leave us regarding the collective act of creating concepts? CiteULike Connotea Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Reddit Technorati Twitter What's this? « Previous | Next Article » Table of Contents This Article doi: 10.1215/00382876-1472594 South Atlantic Quarterly 2012 Volume 111, Number 1: 65-79 » Abstract Full Text (PDF) Classifications Article Services Email this article to a colleague Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in Web of Science Download to citation manager Citing Articles Load citing article information Citing articles via Web of Science Google Scholar Articles by Alcoreza, R. P. Related Content Load related web page information Social Bookmarking CiteULike Connotea Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Reddit Technorati Twitter What's this? Current Issue Winter 2012, 111 (1) Alert me to new issues of South Atlantic Quarterly Duke University Press Journals ONLINE About the Journal Editorial Board Submission Guidelines Permissions Advertising Indexing / Abstracting Privacy Policy Subscriptions Library Resource Center Activation / Acct. Mgr. E-mail Alerts Help Feedback © 2012 by Duke University Press Print ISSN: 0038-2876 Online ISSN: 1527-8026 var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-5666725-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview();
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