WHO IS THE ENEMY OF SOCIALISM?

Sun Ztu –a war philosopher- said:

… “It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle”.

Sun Ztu knowledge has guided a great number of military and policial leaders, his teachings are studied in the best academies of the world. Revolution must reflect on them and apply them in its right time and space. Let’s know the enemy.

The principal enemy of Socialism is capitalism. This simple truth has forgotten many times. Capitalism is a spirituality and materiality, that is to say, a vision of the world and a concretion of that vision. The New York Stock Exchange is an example as well as the search of “the American dream.” Rich people from Venezuela try to go up in the economical scale, as well as the dispossessed.

Capitalism has many facets, all of them are dangerous. We can find them outside the ethic, and inside moral. They live in the bottom of man created in capitalism, it is worth to say, in all of us. Hence, they emerge like a cornered beast when the quandary presents, and when is necessary to make decisions that harm them. They are also evident in the military and fabulous power of the media.

Inventions to save it, justifications to estimulate it and protect it are similar to those that support an addiction. We already know that the temptation of jagged weapons is always present to gobble up the Socialist attempts.

In short, Socialism can not be done flirting with capitalism. If, for any particular reason, is necessary to coexist with the main enemy, then the managed campaing to conciousness, and to socialist culture must elevate it to the utmost, and the coexistence must be explained as a tactical need, pitiful and dangerous, but never as a merit, a worth, or a strategic goal of Socialism.

Sun Ztu recommends to know oneself, that is vital; we must know where is our strenght and weakenesses. Let’s know ourselves.

We came from the guts of capitalism, we are his children, is in the deepest of our souls. Therefore, we live together with the enemy, his logic inhabits us. At the same time, we are creators of the new world, of Socialism and also the enemies of its creation. That dilemma mark us, we fight that battle everyday, from our inside the fear to move forward emerges, the temptations of loss. The battle for Socialism stages, mainly, in our souls.

In conclusion, we can say that if the measures that we take stimulate capitalism, the private sector, we will be feeding the dangerous enemy that we carry inside us. We do not recognize ourselves.

Whoever that gets confused and considers capitalism as an allied in the construction of Socialism, does not recognizes his enemy, or himself.

With Chavez, all!