In general terms there are many verbs that reflect the "making of a revolution". One thing is to move a whole life time in circles, guided by an ideological axis of evil, another thing is to make a revolution, to cause, to guide and to defend a revolution. In general, we all know how easy it is to take the line of least resistance, to beat around the bush, to circumvolve "Marxism", to gyrate around a messiah or to wheel along after the "good shepherd". In the strict sense of the word, as daily practice, without pondering, without intellectual reflection, also this is "making a revolution", the bourgeois, democratic, capitalist revolution. This happens when we do not create precise, incisive concepts for a certain thing, for a certain real process.* to happen regularly at periodic intervals, e.g., the four seasons.
* to be treated formal logically, i.e., to be centered. His problems only revolve around corruption.
However, a concrete revolution also has a theoretical dimension, it is a generator of thinking and thought, of class consciousness and proletarian praxis, but, it can also be used by the ruling classes, by the State, to control the mind, to inculcate ideology, and in global fascism, to annihilate any critical theory and emancipatory praxis.
Over the last decade this did begin in Venezuela, no matter all the constructive critique, a social revolution was and still is in the making.
All the glorious socialists, Marx, Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Nkrumah, Castro and many others, have stressed the revolutionary necessity of thinking and thought for acts and actions. In "What is to be done", Lenin went so far as to say: without socialist daydreams, without theory, no social revolution is possible.
Hence, in a Cartesian sense, we as socialist revolutionaries have carefully and at length to cogitate, permanently to excogitate. After having drunk ruling class ideology and religion with mother's milk, or with Nestle and Parmalat, and after having chewed and ruminated all classes of merchandise, it is really high time to become revolutionary, to look before we leap, to think everything and anything all over, to have an overall, total, process-like perspective. Nowadays, in the global 'war of ideas', as revolutionaries, by definition, we have to cudgel our bamboozled brains.
On the other hand, to make a "revolution" is being seen from the point of view of Washington as national organized "democracy" which intends to change or overthrow a "dictator", that is, the legitimate government of President Hugo Chavez Frias.
In this terrorist connotation, the term 'revolution' is distorted, it includes anything that is launched against the stagnating democratic or undemocratic status quo, it comprises insurgence, conspiracy, military coups, rebellion, revolt, uprising, sedition and secession.
Finally, let us affirm, currently it is "the best of times, the worst of times" (Charles Dickens), times of sweeping social changes, of class struggles: profound cataclysms, painful convulsions and a series of political upheavals.
There is no turn, no return for us, it is simply onward, is the battle for mankind, for planetary emancipation.
Franz J.T. Lee
franz@franzlee.org.ve
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