Well, dream on, ignorance is bliss! It is folly to study real, ruling class, modern history.
- * Without offending anybody in particular, by the Sun God, by the Zodiac, by Jahwe, by Apollo, by Jesus Christ, really, after dozens of millennia of 'cultural and civilized' exploitation of nature and human labor are we really still so naive, so blind, ... are we really still sitting in ivory towers, in total obscurity, in spite of scientific and philosophic socialism, ... are we politico-economically really so illiterate?
- * What went wrong with the world revolution, with our own beautiful and peaceful revolution? With our revolutionaries? Are we really still on track, do we have a vanguard, a socialist party, and what is its quo vadis? Do we care about the future at all? Do we have a one man revolution?
Without theoretical reflection of the above in a global, class conscious, proletarian manner we cannot seriously develop revolutionary praxis and theory in Venezuela, least of all, unprepared could we embark on realizing human emancipation in the 21st century at all. Presently, in a true socialist party, guided by revolutionary Marxism, we have to liberate ourselves from the ideological fangs and practical pangs of ruling class superstructural opium and ideological strychnine. If not, sad to say, like many other revolutions the very popular mass base of our revolutionary party will fade into oblivion. Therewith the few sparks of human emancipation against global fascism will also gradually die out.
- * The 'strong billion bolivar' question: politically, as so much critique of our Bolivarian socialism try to make us believe: politically, definitely is something going wrong somewhere in Venezuela? Do we have a crisis?
On the contrary, politico-economically there is a crisis in the White House, either it must try to save its coming fraudulent, undemocratic elections, or to risk a hidden internal fascist military take-over or externally it will have to fake a nuclear war.
We repeat: class struggle is not obsolete, on the contrary, it never has been so topical, so indispensable like today. Arguments like the eternal litany, that the conditions are not yet ripe for socialism, we can just counter this reformism by asking: why are all the conditions for exploitation always mature? Why never for socialism? What do the eternal lovers of capitalism concretely and immediately fear most? When they see Chávez or Evo, why do the oligarchs shiver in their bloody army boots in Bolivia and Venezuela?
What happened in 2002-3 in Venezuela? Class struggle or playing cops and crooks with the Caracas Metropolitan Police and the snipers of the Death Squads?
- * Are we "advancing" backwards towards the last millennium, towards 1998? Under the leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) will the awakened working masses (of 2002 and much earlier) really attain a higher revolutionary class consciousness, more emancipatory creativity, socialist people's power?
- * In the Latin American emancipatory drama are the working classes not the main actors and heirs of socialist revolution, of class struggle, of human emancipation? Are we as Venezuelan workers not part and parcel of the global proletariat in its historic march towards emancipation against colonialism and imperialism? Must we first find the revolutionary subject and then make the revolution? Over the last decade Venezuela has advanced to the most politicized country in the world, but this is not identical with the acquisition of a permanent proletarian class consciousness. Independent of all this, in latency and tendency the class struggle will continue in Venezuela.
As long as the democratically elected government of President Chávez incorporates the deepest proletarian aspirations, it will have massive working class support. If any future Venezuelan government should develop into a bourgeois, democratic, capitalist State with anti-proletarian class interests to defend, well, then something will really go "wrong·with Venezuela. It happened already between April 11 and 13, 2002. It should never happen again!
Let us continue with answering questions....
Within the context of the current fascist pillage of global strategic and energetic resources and of the North American industrial military complex to plunder Venezuela to their heart's content, who else has Hobson's choice, that is, in international politics, who else can only choose between the devil and the deep blue sea? In fact, it is really a choice between two dialectical extremes, between Orwellian corporate barbarism and creative, human anticipation.
We in Venezuela have to decide between capitalism and socialism. Either our revolution is pregnant with scientific, philosophic socialism or it is not? There is no quarter, half way or fifty-fifty pregnancy in nature. No matter how we try to Christianize it, formal logics teaches us that the revolution is either socialist or it is not, that is, it is bourgeois capitalist. We should not try to fool ourselves.
The proof of the pudding we will relish in a very short period of time, at the end of November 2008, when the full reactionary blast against Venezuelan democracy will be launched again, this time from the inside and the outside. As President Hugo Chávez Frías so often underlined: the people, the working masses are wise. In the last elections, for the first time, on December 2, 2007, we lost over 3 million votes. Why? The answer we will know at the end of this year.
Now, to place the Bolivarian Revolution into scientific and philosophic focus, let us look at the long view of contemporary history, of revolution and emancipation. As Bertolt Brecht precisely explained, the few human beings who fight (and fought) for living, creative emancipation all their lives, have already verified scientifically that they belong to the real indispensable, optimistic and militant heroes of humanity, especially of the billions of unarmed toiling slaves and wage slaves on earth.
Over the last decades, for those comrades in Venezuela who still can sense and think reality, can understand what is dialectical negation of capitalism, it is clear what has to be done. We do not have problems with praxico-theoretocal inspiration, aspiration and anticipation. Many of the Venezuelan youths, not consumed by artificial capitalist needs and desires, are daring to take a long walk, to take a break, to break out of the normal war chant, out of ordinary commonplace. Some break through the savage capitalist quid pro quo.
President Chávez heads this youthful vanguard, which still preserves the revolutionary spirit of April 13, of the deepest anti-capitalist desires of the real daydreams of the working masses. As such, in America, Africa, Asia and elsewhere we can reach out for the stars, per aspera ad astra. We can go for the extraordinary, the unknown, the real new, in a nut shell, for an anticipatory outing, an emancipatory exodus.
At the moment the Russians also say No to Euro-Yankee imperialism, but it is not the No of the October Revolution. They say till Georgia and not a millimeter further, however, this No is intra-capitalist, it is not a negation, it is not an anti-capitalist dialectical negation.
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