CHRIS GILBERT

This page brings together a work by the Venezuela-based author on subjects such as communes, socialist strategy, imperialism, and social reproduction theory.

BOOKS

Commune or Nothing, Chris Gilbert
NEW BOOK! Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project
by Chris Gilbert | Monthly Review Press, October 2023 | Get the book here! | A front-row seat to Venezuela’s most innovative socialist project, with important lessons for movements worldwide. Commune...
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Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution
by Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert | Monthly Review Press, October 2020 | Get the book here! | Venezuela has been the stuff of frontpage news extravaganzas, especially since the death of Hugo...
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Resistencia comunal frente al bloqueo imperialista
Colección: Resistencia comunal, campesina y obrera frente al bloqueo imperialista 
Chris Gilbert y Cira Pascual Marquina, autores | Observatorio Venezolano Antibloqueo, 2021-2024 | To read this content in English, go to Venezuelanalysis’s Communal and Working Class Resistance |...
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Chris Gilbert, Para que sirve El Capital
Para qué sirve El Capital: un balance contemporáneo de la obra principal de Karl Marx
Chris Gilbert y Cira Pascual Marquina, Comp. | Varias ediciones: Editorial Trinchera, Botxe, PT México | ¡Consíguelo aquí! | A continuación presentamos una selección de la introducción de Chris Gilbert...
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Coleccion Escuela de Cuadros
Colección Escuela de Cuadros: Marx, Luxemburg, Che, Brecht
Chris Gilbert y Cira Pascual Marquina, compiladores y editores | Utopix.cc, Para Leer en Libertad, Escuela de Cuadros, 2022-2023 | La Colección Escuela de Cuadros mancomuna tres iniciativas latinoamericanas...
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Por que socialismo, Einstein, Gilbert, etc
¿Por qué socialismo? Reactivando un debate
Chris Gilbert y Cira Pascual Marquina, Comp. | Boltxe y Editorial Trinchera, 2017 | ¡Consíguelo aquí! | ¿Por qué socialismo? Este libro trata de rescatar los aspectos subjetivos de esta pregunta que...
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ABOUT

Chris Gilbert is a professor at Venezuela’s Bolivarian University and a writer based in Caracas. Grounded in a Marxist perspective, his research includes communes, socialist strategy, social reproduction theory, and imperialism.

He is co-creator and co-host of the television program and podcast Escuela de Cuadros and is the author most recently of Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project.