Plebeian Power

Álvaro García Linera has been vice-president of Bolivia since 2006, and is a prominent intellectual force in the Evo Morales government. He has written extensively on the indigenous question and class and communal politics in Bolivia, including Horizontes y límites del estado y el poder (2005) and Forma Valor y Forma Comunidad (1995, 2010).

• Álvaro García Linera: Reflections on Two Centuries of Bolivia, Pablo StefanoniI. The Communist Manifesto and our PresentThe Communist Manifesto and our Present: Four Theses on Its Historical ActualityII. Citizenship and DemocracyCitizenship and Democracy in Bolivia (1900–98)III. Labour-MovementHistorical Cycles in the Formation of the Condition of the Mining Working Class in Bolivia (1825–1999)The Death of the Twentieth-Century Working-Class Condition IV. The Indigenous MovementColonial Narrative and Communal Narrative Indigenous Autonomies and the Multinational StateV. Social-Movement StructuresUnion, Multitude and Community: Social Movements and Forms of Political Autonomy in Bolivia VI. The Crisis of the State and the Period of RevolutionThe Crisis of the State and Indigenous-Plebeian Uprisings in BoliviaThe Struggle for Power in BoliviaIndianism and Marxism: the Disparity between Two Revolutionary Rationales Bibliography of Álvaro García Linera ReferencesIndex