El Estado Somos Todos, El Pueblo Soy Yo?: - On Chavismo and the Necessity of the Leader

摘要: This paper puts into question the current leftist tendency to reject leader, party and State in favor of horizontal forms organization. Critically extending key moments where often opposed political theories Laclau Badiou touch on "the leader," I argue for a conception that neither simply opposes presentation re-presentation, nor subsumes one under other. Articulated relation process " chavismo Venezuela, this identifies State, as necessary, experimental sites transformative politics.