“This is a system of ants,” Dulce Esperanza, a member of the Candelaria Heroica Commune in Caracas, Venezuela, explained to me as we sat outside of a voting center in her commune. Bit by bit, Dulce told me, she and her neighbors have built a part of the labor, and love, that has sustained her commune of 5,000 families, carrying out the vision outlined by leader and former president Hugo Chávez two decades ago. Here, communards organize citizens’ assemblies to debate and make decisions about t...

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