{"id":182,"date":"2011-09-27T11:29:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=182"},"modified":"2011-09-27T11:32:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T18:32:32","slug":"why-the-bolivian-revolution-is-the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Why the Bolivian Revolution is the Real Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, unlike in Venezuela, the revolution in Bolivia is a bottom-up affair, backed by a diversity of groups, as opposed to being something orchestrated from above by a single charismatic figure. That becomes clear when you read stories like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/sep\/27\/bolivian-president-suspends-amazon-road\">this one<\/a> about a highway project being opposed by the indigenous people whose land it would compromise.<\/p>\n<p><em>Of course<\/em> Morales has become a new oppressor. How could he <em>not,<\/em> given the nature of the job he sought? By becoming the chief executive of a hierarchical system of authority, he chose to participate in a rotten system.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say its a <em>useless<\/em> achievement and that Morales administration is no better than those it replaced, only that it&#8217;s a very limited achievement. Past administrations would not have stepped back, embarrassed, and called a moratorium. However, unless the pressure from below continues and intensifies, the outcome will be the typical &#8220;compromise&#8221; of industrial civilization: less wild nature and more development.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/no_compromise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-184 \" title=\"No Compromise\" src=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/no_compromise-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"No Compromise\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/no_compromise-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/no_compromise-651x1024.jpg 651w, https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/no_compromise.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No Compromise. Courtesy of &quot;Super Happy Anarcho Fun Pages.&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>True change must always come from below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, unlike in Venezuela, the revolution in Bolivia is a bottom-up affair, backed by a diversity of groups, as opposed to being something orchestrated from above by a single charismatic figure. That becomes clear when you read stories like this one about a highway project being opposed by the indigenous people whose land it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}