THE CHALLENGE OF STORM

Clearly, a social storm of immense proportions is approaching, or better said, we are mired in it. The signs are clear, we are suffering the consequences, and the conclusion is straightforward: capitalism is in a terminal crisis and –necessarily- it drags the world.

The crisis of capitalism is the crisis of humanity, today it is not decided the fate of a system, but the fate of mankind and planetary life. It is the duty of Revolutionaries to fight for the survival of humanity, which is the main challenge. At this historical stage, crisis, storm and capitalism are synonymous: they define a situation that endangers life itself.

To the Bolivarian Revolution, it is essential to understand the agony manifestations of capitalism, only this way we can assume our historical role, the huge but beautiful responsibility of us. Let’s see.

The condition of capitalism can be approached from different angles: financial, political, demographic, production, ecological impact, and so on. By studying the phenomenon of crisis, we will realize that all its facets are originated in the way as the capitalism’s man is perceived and the economic relations that impose this vision. Let us consider the manifestations of global capitalism and let us try to determine its development.

The capitalist economy is crumbling, the U.S. debt is a sign of structural problems of that system, so does Europe, Greece is pathognomonic, in China reality dilutes the miracle, and difficulties already overlook reminding us that there is no capitalism without crisis.

The U.S. deserves our special attention; there are coming elections and the crisis burden the obama’s candidature and polls. It is logic to think that they will use disgrace to rise them up, they already got it with the "death of Bin Laden", but the increase was ephemeral, the numbers fell again dragged by the economy. Hence, Chavez may be a good target in the vicinity of their elections.

The ecological disaster shows its consequences, in the production of food are predicted severe shortages, we are already suffering from rising of prices.

The migrations of hungry, despite of all the efforts to hide them already play hard the northern gates and create demographic imbalances.

We could conclude that civilization -as we know it- will disappear. In the next few years everything will change, the transformation is already happening in front of a blind humanity. The survival of the species depends on that change, and this would be an improvement of capitalist human relations, otherwise it will be extinction.

However, in the short term the crisis of capitalism will have an impact on continental and global politics. First, the political choices will be radicalized, there will not be room for third ways; for the capitalism with a human face, the dilemma is -as ever- Socialism or Barbarism, Socialism or Fascism. Here in the Continent, is the duty of alerting the Bolivarian people, to be an example of how to deal with difficulties, it is necessary to deepen the Revolution, which is the only way to defeat the storm.

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THE FACTOR FIDEL

Revolutions, revolutionaries, and revolutionary people should be inspired by the Factor Fidel; otherwise it is very difficult to complete successfully their task. Let us explain.

Every Revolution involves great sacrifices; it is not possible to think of profound changes without facing adversity.

Roads with no obstacles are typical of fairy tales and not from the reality of the social struggle. It is not unreasonable to say that the prepared peoples for misery are those that have the right to travel paths of happiness. We can say that the revolutionary success of a people is directly related to the size of the difficulties that can support without leaving its dreams.

The lifetime of great revolutionaries, the history of the great revolutions is a chair; it is an example of performance against misfortune. Someone called Bolivar the man of adversities; and what better example of “El Paso de Los Andes” to illustrate the achievements of a people when gets steep beyond its own strengths, overcoming mountains in its fight against fatality.

Recent history provides us an extraordinary example of this revolutionary behaviour: Fidel, heir of the best traditions of the great revolutionaries of the continent and the world. In 1953, he attacks the Moncada Barracks, and the dictatorship massacred the boys that participated in this heroic action, he is captured, so he converted the adversity of imprisonment in a school of thought, it is what he called the fertile prison. He keeps in his revolutionary zeal and goes to Mexico -not a comfortable exile but to prepare the Revolution. He returns to the Granma, and soon, in the battle of “Alegría de Pío” looses the majority of his army of revolutionaries, he is unarmed, and in these conditions of extreme difficulty, he launches its main slogan: We shall defeat! (Venceremos). Then Revolution triumphed, and the history is filled with Fidel’s tenacity.

But when the Soviet Union fell, and the ninety miles island of the empire is helpless -as a straw within the storm of an adverse world- when Fidel grows with perseverance and save Cuba, and with it the socialist hope of humanity.

Reviewing Fidel’s life is an encounter with the conduct of a man who thrives on the difficulties, fights them, overcomes them and builds the possibility of redemption of his people.

The revolutionaries of the world must imbue with the factor Fidel:

When it seems that everything is lost, let’s move on.

Let’s not faint face difficulties, despite the abyss, let’s move forward.

The duty of revolutionaries is to make Revolution!!

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FROM THE EXCITEMENT OF THE RETURN

We wrote this “Grano” from the emotion. This is the first element of the new scene. It is from passion that the great works of the people are built. That love, that passion for Bolivar, was the hurricane that made independence possible. That warmth that only awakens the great deeds and the man, who embody them, appear again with the return of Chavez.

The return of Chavez changes the political scenery that the right tried to establish: their plans for restoration, for now, get frustrated. Revolution and Chavez’s leadership are rooted even more in the feelings of the humble people, this is very important, they to create great conditions for the essential leap for the definitive consolidation.

In the middle of euphoria, a necessary question arises so triumph does not fade:

What to do?

We must not fall into triumphalism, in the middle of euphoria, the side that reflects the most, the field that plans its future; that would be the victorious in the long run. We should not forget that the empire does not sleep in its voracity.

We must -and this is essential and fundamental- sharpen the theory; and never forget that a Revolution cannot go beyond theory, the ideology that sustains it. Theory and ideology are the source of every triumph and every defeat.

The ideologies that distract –that have harmed so much to the revolutionary march- have already demonstrated its failure: it is not possible to integrate society with them and give them the strategic consistency to feelings.

It is necessary to consolidate a social and political organization that supports the socialist construction that forms a national network which starts in the finest capillaries and ends in the upper levels of government, the leader.

Thus, we are entering a phase of reorganization in all fields. We are very happy, and there are reasons, Chavez is demonstrating a great courage, of profound reflections on his "Fruitful rest.”

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DON’T YOU DARE MESS WITH CHAVEZ

The worst that can happen is to let us cover with the electoral logic: this has a main goal to stun the public and make Revolution to believe in the good intentions of the empire and its local servants, to think that laws and the rules of the game will be respected by our enemies.

Believing in the good intentions of the empire –already- indicates a cajoling, when history shows otherwise. The empire has no code than its benefit.

Let’s remember Allende, capitalism went over all laws and all behaviors to kill it. Or let us consider the brutal hunt that they are doing to Gaddafi, with the consent of all the capitalist countries, from Russia to the gringos. Do not forget how Zelaya’s departure was: he was taken by the Empire in a brutal manner, and then forgotten by the bourgeois elections. Mel is a good example of how capitalist go through the military and political with no bad time. In Honduras, as in Chile, the war moved between cruel and peaceful in an efficacious way for the empire.

Let’s memorize our April and December. Let's review the military-political doctrines of bush and obama, and refresh their actions today.

The conclusion of right mind cannot be different: the empire does not respect any contrary law to its interests. It is necessary to be prepared to defend the sovereignty; today’s dilemma is slavery or Socialism.

The question that emerges is: how is the Revolution face this landscape? Let's see.

If we take the health incident of Chavez as a circumstance that put us to the test, we can get conclusions, we can see the mistakes and strengths, and we can correct and reinforce our defenses.

First we detected was the love that the humble have towards Commander Chavez, the concern is unanimous. Internationally, the support is important, the twitter exploded of solidarity. Everything indicates that there is support for a while.

It is time to close ranks against the empire’s onslaught and its local lackeys, still incipient, but it can climb, they pretend to take advantage of any blink to build attacks against the country, Revolution and Chavez. It is necessary to grind the management, sharpening the connection with the mass, digging spiritual trenches.

The only way to stop the empire’s intentions is felling a loving grouped society around its leader, organized, conscious, with a Party to lead it, and alert face any mishap, ready to give everything to build its future.

If we neglect the defense, if we give signs of weaknesses, if we lower our guard, then the evil enemy of the people will come over.

We must warn the right and the empire to not get excited, and to misread reality, if they dare and get creative and look for ways to take advantage of the occasion, the response of the people, of Revolution will be ruthless: capitalism will be destroyed entirely. We will deepen it.

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SELFISHNESS

Selfishness is paradoxical; nature conspires against the achievement of its objectives. If we consider that the selfish pursues his personal welfare, we will find that selfishness is the worst way to find it. Let's see.

If every member of society finds his benefit in the most selfish possible way, the sum of these egos will be the progress of society, the welfare". That is the sentence of the fathers of capitalism.

The result was another: the fragmentation of society, where some appropriate the wealth and the work that belongs to others, and on such progress, it was the opulence of a very few and the poverty of many, the result is spiritual poverty for all and the impossibility to reach happiness.
What happened? Where was the error? Why humanity entered this alley that has fatal consequences?

The first fact is that happiness, the good living, human’s well-being, and it is necessarily a collective search. This nourishes its condition natural being, of natural member of the biosphere, of social animal. Let's see.

Planetary life survives thanks to the harmony of all its components, is what is called ecological balance, in short, it is based on the maxim: "the fate of all depends on the fate of each of its components, and luck of each one of its components depends on luck of all”.

It means that every animal, every plant has an important role in the miracle of life, its lack is a blow to life, it makes an imbalance, it affects all. It is not possible to affect an element of the biosphere without harming the rest.

It is deduced that in a society the welfare cannot be an individual task, it cannot have a good life surrounded by misery, the discomfort of individuals –necessarily- reverts above the whole society. Happiness is a social phenomenon, and to come true needs a balanced and harmonic society, a life in balance.

The pursuit of happiness in the selfish society of capitalism is a vain effort, it is to pursue the pot of gold at the base of the rainbow, and it is like searching only the happiness of a part of the body and leaves the rest.

We conclude that the only way to find the personal welfare, the good living, is fighting for the welfare of all, for the whole society, in other words, for Socialism.

This truth is known by men of good will since always, and Christ already -in his wisdom- left us the path to love one another, that is, to fight against selfishness, the only way to get what we now call the good living.

Socialism -which is the integration of society in the pursuit of their material and spiritual goals- is the only way to overcome selfishness as a solution to the challenges of existence, it is the only way to achieve happiness.

With Chavez more than ever!

QUIROZ SHOWS THE COUP’S ATTEMPT

Chavez's disease moves the political environment, some approach to the barrier with the pole in their hand, some others take the sea in search of other ships, the most and the best, play closely with Revolution and Chavez. The movements are visible. Let's see.

Leopoldo lópez, during a forum of the 50th’s anniversary of CENDES, expounded his government project: a lot of demagoguery, loose intentions, and a proposal that includes to raise the oil production up to 6 million barrels, which means to fracture the OPEC. The rest is empty electoral talk. So far, anything to write about, we already know his plans for delivering the country to the big multinationals.

The important thing is that in the forum participated Rodrigo Cabezas, a member of the PSUV leadership and president of the Latin American Parliament. Let's see what the news said: "Minutes after PSUV’s leader, Rodrigo Cabezas -during the round of questions and answers- expressed his consensus regarding the items proposed by lópez, without going into details."

Two possibilities: the news are true, indicating an unacceptable approach to the enemy, and more right now. Second, it is a manipulation of the oligarch-bourgeois press, then it must be rapidly disproved because it confuses the mass, it clouds the direction and theory.

There is a clear intention of the opposition to create a rapprochement, real or fictional, that harms us.

Another motion carried by the wind of Chavez’s disease are the statements of alejandro uzcátegui, and this is what the story tells: "The president of “Empresarios de Venezuela” (Empreven), Alejandro Uzcategui, said that his organization would propose the possibility of a meeting with executives of fedecamaras ...

He said that recently discussed that possibility with a qualified spokesman for the federation. The goal is the same, which is the economic development and giveparticipation to the private sector".

This utter opportunist, at the first little scare, forgets about Socialism, and now his goal is the same as fedecamara’s.

The waters move, the pieces take their place naturally, fiction ends and the masks fall.

From another burrow, the transnational agent quiroz corradi overlooks offering his oil plan. He tries to separate the State from the people. He proposes to privatize the oil, and reduce PDVSA to a minimum, and a "strange coincidence", as leopold, he wants to increase production and break OPEC.

Let’s remember that political times accelerate and intensify, we have to find the pro-coup addresse of his proposal.

This is the center of the oligarchy’s plans, leopold, quiroz and their followers: they obey the requirements of the empire, they deliver oil to the multinationals. Thus, they will condemn the country to the material and spiritual poverty. This plan -to seize the oil- have to impose it, it is a imperial requirement, they will try a coup attempt, they have lost the election. It would be naive to prove their commitment to democracy.

Oligarchs tremble, Chavez is back and stronger!
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THE COMING CHAVEZ

Any time Chavez will return, it is timely to reflect his come back.

The critical moment that he experienced, with the illness, forced him to go back to the desert’s loneliness desert that he already knew, he had the wonderful opportunity of reflection. It is there, in the cold of wasteland, where man -as Christ- finds with his demons, but also with his God. From these episodes of inner experience, one comes out stronger.

The limits of life make men philosophers, Chavez was a philosopher, was a child and father, he understood leader of peoples, which is more than Commander and President. He was known human and he was anointed by history. The disease is a disgrace, but the pillow of the sick is a University of life.

From his bed, he has known more his country; he meditates and thinks to himself, to his entourage, and also to the hypocritical and cruel opposition and that takes advantage of his illness as an electoral commodity, and does some infamous calculations of the deathly accounting. He feels the love of the humble who loves without measure and calculation.

He feels the strengh of his party, and also the weakness of pusillanimous dialogists, of precipitated throwing bridges to the most ominous of the opposition. From there, convalescent, he could measure the cruelty of renegades who show more anger and less restrained than the old enemies.

Chavez, our Chávez, he could philosophize, he could see from his rest the image of all, the general.The strategy took the place of the daily feverish activity, it reinforced its vision of statesman. From the difficult battle, he took strength to grow, understand us and better understood himself.

So, the coming Chavez will be –necessarily- better, he went through an education that consecrates him.

The opposition, following gringos’ instruction, wants to show him weaker because they are afraid of him, now more than ever, they are scared of the power of the strengthened Chávez, proved in difficulties, more aware of life -because overcoming a disease, illuminated him, damages the body but it raises the soul of the greats.

The humble people should prepare for the extraordinary next step, Chávez is coming back to move forward, to change what needs to be change, to deepen and strengthen his what he achieved during difficult times.

The idea of ​​the ‘Compromised with Chavez Committés’ should be supported. We are optimistic. To the unfortunate illness, Chavez managed to turn into a fortress.

The union with Cuba showed that it is more than the sign of an agreement, or trade or formal agreement, it showed that we are joined through the soul. We can say, paraphrasing Martí, "Homeland is Revolution." We are just one nation.

Thus, the joint Cuba-Venezuela, the solidarity between the two countries is to support a common Socialist Revolution, which is a continuation of Bolivar’s and Marti’s works. Cuba and Venezuela are united by the socialist feeling.

Oligarchs tremble, Chavez is back and he is coming stronger!

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WE WILL BE WITH CHAVEZ

In a war -and this Peaceful Revolution is it- there are major battles and minor battles.

The main battle is where the confrontation with the enemy is direct, decisive, and defines the strategic outcome. This battle changes of scenery, the theater of operations. Lets us remember, at one time was the oil sabotage, in another the main battle moved to the shortage, several times it stays in the elections.

Today the main battle is in Commander Chávez. The oligarch-bourgeois -defeated in all the sceneries where they presented their faces- now charged directly at the leader of Revolution. Their objective is to fracture the loving connection Chavez-People; they know that this is the cornerstone of Revolution.

Thus, the empire, a student of situations that threaten its system, knows that the social rebellion is embodied in a leader, the revolutionary mass sums up in that leader.

When this happens, when this connection mass-leader is established, the process is unbeatable. Simon Bolivar summarizes the Independence, Zamora the jolt of the Federation, Allende sums that attempt to take the sky by storm, Torrijos is the embodiment of Panamanian hope, Lumumba is a symbol of the rebellion of an entire continent ... all killed by the empire, that in this way broke the connection leader-mass and frustrated the redeemers attempts.

Today they pretend to break the connection that makes it possible for the Bolivarian Revolution, their direct objective is Chávez, and they aim their weapons at him. They try to discredit him, whispering debilitation, they spread their lies and sow discord of division, they spread discontent in the humble people, and they promise love as Judas’ kiss, they suggest disloyalty.

The hacks and philosophasters -here and there- invent theories to weaken the connection, they assimilate every leader to hitler, but not with Bolivar, Torrijos, Zamora or Lumunba. They talk about hyper leadership; they rummage through the garbage looking for support the counter-revolution and reformism.

The main battle is going on around Chávez. Unsurprisingly, 2012’s proximity requires stressing the onslaught stress to fracture the loving connection. Today, they see an opportunity in his condition. The question that arises is:

How to face the offensive?

First of all, it is to understand Chavez’s defense as the defense of the hope, that one day -in Santa Marta- was frustrated and was reborn on February 4th.

Second, it is the commitment from the heart, that now Golgotha, the Palacio de La Moneda, the assassination of San Carlos, San Pedro Alejandrino, will not be repeated! We will stand next to Chavez about all the manipulations that the enemy can do, beyond all doubts we are with Chavez.

Thirdly, it is essential to organize the love towards Chavez; the committed Committees are an excellent initiative.

Fourthly, internalize that the unit around Chavez and Socialism are sacred.

Finally, if they mess with Chavez, they will unleash a volcano of anger never seen in the continent ... they will regret it.

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EMPIRE LURKS

Oligarchic domination mechanisms are activated: they smelled the difficulties in the Revolutionary Government, and ready they show their claws and worn fangs, but still hurtful.

The lackeys begin to develop the plans that its imperial master dictates, they do not dismiss any option, several are their plans, let's see the most conspicuous.

Whenever the revolutionary possibility confronts difficulties, appears the pact as a way to kill it.

The First Republic got lost like that: Miranda's covenant sealed along with Monteverde the disaster of the pro-independence cause.

So it was with the revolutionary possibility that opened on January 23th, 1958: the reaction proposed Punto Fijo's Pact, and all he forces bowed to that proposal, thereby the bourgeoisie got to defeat hope. What happened next is known: Fabricio, the youth, went to the mountains and the bourgeoisie established half a century of obscurity.

In the Bolivarian Revolution are several examples of pact's attempts that have caused much damage. Let us just remember that after the April's coup, those called for consensus delivered the oil sabotage.

Now with Chavez's disease they try to weaken Revolution, castrate it, and remove its renewal power, making it in a subservient to the logic of empire. Let's see.

The plan consists of two steps simultaneously: Chavez leaving office, and an agreement around a new Vice President.

Those responsible for proposing the covenant are the aggressive anti-Chavez from the newspaper "El Nacional" grouped in the 2D movement.

Pablo Medina, big mouthy as always, reveals the empire's maneuver: it asked to get rid of Chavez.

Julio borges’ is a consonant cruelty with his fascist mood: he recognizes that Chavez got sick from his dedication to the cause of the poor; he thanks and shows the utmost cynicism.

Diego Arria appears on CNN with the same gentle air, he proposes to recognize that Chavez should leave office and that he could be replaced by Jaua ... or someone else.

This way the plan is evident: they propose that Chavez leaves office, and get weaker, then they will strive for a Vice of consensus, dialogue, as proposed by "El Nacional", all spiced with riots and images of lawlessness.

Let's not be fooled, the empire is rolling out plans against Chavez, this one hovering is just one of them, but they also whisper to military men, they prepare riots. Let's not forget that those from “Mesa de la Unidad” are proven agents of the empire, there is the evidence of leadership from the party “Podemos” and Ismael Garcia, asking for intervention. And everyone at the board and its satellites, support them by default.

Gringos will not miss this opportunity; they will move all their pieces, from local agents -with the pact's proposal- to direct aggression.

This situation is serious, it is necessary to go beyond warning, to organize, to join now more than ever, around Chavez. In this time of emergency there is a need to shelve complaints and fights between “chavistas”; it's time for the iron unity, to play together.

With Chavez more than ever!

INCOME'S AWARNESS

In Venezuela -oil rentier country- Revolution has very peculiar characteristics. Here, predation acquires the quality more of dispossession than of appropriation of someone else's work. That is to say, the bourgeoisie, the privileged class emerges and maintains more by increasing from the income than from sucking the working class' blood. So, the dispute is more by approximating to the income than to free from the exploitation of labor.

However, the capitalist system makes its mark of alienation in society. We are an alienated society, or rather, a deformed society on alienation. Che described these countries of us: "A dwarf with an enormous head and a filled chest with underdevelopment. As for his weak legs or short arms, he does not articulate with the rest of his anatomy, it is the product of a teratological phenomenon that has distorted its development."

It is like this in economy and spirituality.

This explains our deformations: neighborhoods that crumble carrying DirecTV antennas or bums with cell phones, the working-class asking for dividends in bankrupted companies. Capable of risking their life to save a President, but they do not tolerate black outs for half an hour, and that is enough to leave any cause ...of abundant dollars and abundant expenses.

A people difficult to organize and difficult to tame, that knows as much about baseball as it smells an opportunist politician's betrayal. He can choose an angel, as well as he supports a demon. He frees a continent and also expels his Liberator. A society capable for heroism -as in April as well as for the fool selfishness- that has the revolutionary enterprise on the rack.

Thus, in this country are conditions herd to improve for Revolution, its "social disorder", its irreverence, has prevented that domination consolidates, it has not managed to create the climate of obedience and submission proper from the oppression of the developed countries. Here the domination system has always been imperfect.

These special conditions require a special political treatment, a high level of creativity, but also a high degree of utilization of the universal experience, and only like this will be a fight against the natural tendency of theoretical and practical improvisation, of tentativeness, of the unconscious testing, of the mental energy and material waste.

It is essential to a strong bond with the leader and a strong vanguard, a sort of apostles that with their examples and their actions fight against the selfish behavior of the oil capitalism and give it a spiritual sense, of social integration, to the economic reforms that undertake Revolution.

It is essential the example of social integration, of Awareness of Social Duty. Making the mass understands the need of integration as a society. And that is only possible with Socialism that firmness and conviction bring us to the new vision of a inclusive society, where the fate of one depends on the fate of all.

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THE INITIATIVE

In war, as in its twin politics, is vital to maintain the strategic initiative, when this looses, the defeat starts.

The first requirement for the initiative is to know and understand the enemy, that is, to delimit the fields. This seems not to need much explanation, and it is so in a conventional war, but if the effort is a peaceful revolution, defining the fields acquires difficulties that demandi ntelligence and study. Let's see.

A Peaceful Revolution is a fertile ground for confusion, that might be a law of this kind of Revolution: a war between opponents who coexist in the battle field, the lines are blurred, the armies mix, the battles -frequently- are muted, and the battle fields spread to all spheres of social life, making it hard to delineate the lines of confrontation.

The initiative is buried in this confusion. It is hard to define it, evaluate it, and the questions that emerge are: how do we know if we have the initiative? how do we get it and do we keep it?

It is essential to understand the enemy, without it there is no possible the initiative. This accuracy is a theoretical issue which constitutes the most important practical task of the Revolution. Let's proceed.

Identifying capitalism as the enemy, we move forward, but still it is not enough.

Let's investigate its essence: is a sick patient who can not control his voracity, his appetite, he is a monster that, above any other consideration, accumulates capital, sweat, blood, someone else's effort in the form of money. To satisfy his addiction, he needs to get a sharp behavior of selfishness, individualism is its currency.

This monster fears nothing more than to lose his ability to swallow, to diminish his gluttony. Against this possibility, he tucks his best weapons, sometimes it can be subtle disguising of a nice guy, but he is always at the bottom of cruelty, that emerges when he sees in danger his sick way of living.

We already have an approach to understand the enemy, now let us know a little bit ourselves: Revolution is the most excellent feat that may arise humanity, it is a real miracle that tries to change a hegemonized world by the selfishness of capitalism for a world of loving relations. That is not hard now, but this change must be made by trained men in capitalism, in the old. That is, men that suffer this disease of capitalism must fight it by defeating themselves.

Then Revolution has the initiative when its actions establishes, strengthens and defends the fraternal loving relations. The initiative gets lost when selfish actions strengthen the selfish relations.

Hence, the cohabitation with capitalism should not mean its benefit, not even its growth, when it strengthens, selfish relations do it too and Revolution weakens. Relations with capitalism must keep in the minimum required by circumstances, and never make the naivety of mistaking the forced cohabitation with collaboration. Capitalism will never be friendly, and it will never build Socialism, capitalism does not commit suicide.

With Chavez more than ever!

THE OLD'S BATTALLION

Pica, Papo, Piñate, Saturno, Periquita, el Cabo, CocoRon form the Old's battalion from the little school of "A Kernel of Corn." The seven add half a century of imprisonment in the jails of “the fourth”, three hundred years of fighting the bourgeoisie and the empire, and many years of living... All united together in the irreverence and loyalty to Chavez, Socialism, and Humanity.

The little school "A Kernel of Corn" is many things: to say that is a study circle would be correct, but it is also a compendium of all the revolutionary struggles waged in Venezuela since 1958.

In all shapes and forms of struggle, legal and illegal, peaceful and non-peaceful, in all defeats and victories, is present the life of these old pioneers of the future. These "boys" have participated in all important revolutionary actions, in the past half century. They represent contingent.

Thus, the little school of A Kernel of Corn has a historical legacy that makes it a living museum of revolutionary experience. The practice here is intertwined with theoretical rigor. The wisdom that defeat gives, with the impetus given by knowing that it is possible -inevitable- to triumph.

Discussions at the Little School give rise to the column "A Kernel of Corn" which appears daily in the VEA newspaper, they are a chair of high politics, everything produced there is marked by love, hatred has its bigger enemy in the exemplary life of the Old's Battalion: they cannot hate those who gave their lives for the sake of love.

The Old from the Battalion are direct children of the Patriotic board of Fabricio Ojeda, and the Cuban Revolution of Fidel Castro. Now, they are faithful to Chávez, who continued the tradition of struggle that has moved their whole life: the cause of love.

The Old's Battalion has the rigidity of biology and the flexibility provided by the experience, they have a nose to detect the right direction, and they have the knowledge to explain the tactical dribbling.

Although, they still visit the temple of Venus, their practice and politics do not have the feverish restlessness of the squirrel, but the quiet efficiency of the owl and the discretion of the underground.

The youth also attend the Little School, they are outstanding in the rigorous study, and they understand their needs. They feel privileged to know the history directly from their voice; there the anecdotes flourish, the unwritten judgments, the concept born from the intensity and the painful experience, but never from remorse, always the decision to continue, even on the grief lost.

This is the transmuted history in the epic and at the same time in the joke that humanizes it, it is unique pedagogy. It is sad that much memory gets lost, it is inevitable, it only emerges in confidence, and any noise would return it to the catacombs where Chavez's government rescued it.

Thanks to the Old's Battallion for letting us share with them!

With Chavez more than ever!

DO NOT TRUST KERENSKY

Gramsci tells that “immediately after the outbreak of Revolution and before leaving Russia, Lenin sent this notice: “Do not trust Kerensky”.

Few times in the whole Revolutionary history a strategy, a thought, a political teaching had been condensed in such a few words, in such a succinct message.

Lenin knew that after the defeated Tsar’s monarchy a revolutionary period would be opened, where the advance’s principal enemy would be reformism. In that extreme risk situation, when it was disposed to go in the “armored train”-that was going though the hostile Germany and the war front- would take it to the core of the Revolutionary battle, he sent as a testament and last instruction, a kind of epitaph that means: do not trust kerensky, reformists, they are the principal enemy of every Revolution…

History admits it -not only in Russia where Revolution concreted fighting against the international reformist’s and capitalist’s alliances- but in every Revolution that since that day have ever tried in the planet.

Every time that a Revolutionary possibility emerges, the restorer reformism appears moderating the waters, calling for calm, slowing down, distracting the impetus; they say “there are no possibilities”. “Capitalism does not work but it has to be beaten little by little”-they proclaim. The bolder ones scare and alert, “Without capitalism there is no production”.

The phenomenon is understandable. Let’s see.

A Revolution is a step, a change of such magnitude, which terrifies. Costumes, values and a deep psyche conspire against him; there, where the old vision of the world is anchored. In the definitive hour –when change knocks the door and when society finds itself in the possibility of flying higher- then appears the voices coming from the cavern of centuries, opprobrium millennium; whispering to us to go back, to what is known, to the tranquility of what is conquered, to the chains that shinning now just a bit.

But man is an animal, he is more curious than sensible, bolder than measured, more altruistic than selfish, more human than animal. Those are the conditions that let him conquer the seas under nut shells or let him climb mountains with the only incentive of watching the far horizon. Those are the characteristics that let Bolivar cross The Andes, let Fidel attack the Moncada’s barracks, and let Chavez try to take the sky by storm, let Fabricio leave the seat, let Americo Silva leave his family to go and favor the humanity, let Marti battle in Dos Rios, let Che died in La Higuera with the same dignity that he lived, and let the five kidnapped Cubans resisted all to show us that the new men exists… Man is capable of conquering himself.

That quality of human would be the one that let us go under the fables that come up from the mental chains and rehearse the bold step that found the worlds and justifies the struggles… Lenin was right.

With Chávez, all!!
Without him, nothing!!

EVERY CLASH IS IDEOLOGICAL

The confrontation of a Revolution is together with capitalism. If capitalism is not replaced, there will not be Revolution, just the make up from the old system or -to put it bluntly- failure. The advances, the continuance of capitalist forms are defeats of Socialism.

We can coexist with capitalism for tactical reasons, this depends on the conditions under which Revolution is developed, but a serious mistake to present this coexistence as Socialism. Now, if -in addition- to live together we encourage the nosociales forms, the capitalist forms, the error is life or death.

The system of capitalist domination is maintained despite all its difficulties and its crisis, because, it understood very well that the main battle, or rather, it realized that the only battle that matters is the cultural one, ideological one, and everything that conditions the battle. Its military actions, civil, cultural, theater, soap operas, literature, music, and all its propaganda, from a Mc Donald's ice cream, to a remedy for flu propaganda, everything is directed to the cultural battle, to be implemented in the people's moral and ethical values that sustain the system. It does not gives a moment's place.

Its institutions are at the service of that culture, of those values, of implementing this behavior: movies, religion, education means, radio, press, television, every education existing.

Capitalism promotes the artistic forms that encourages selfishness, and crushes the spreading forms of Socialist value that reivindicate the struggle for emancipation, the Consciousness of Social Responsibility.

The State has among its functions -in addition to the repressive and the administration- to be a media landscape, a show where the President is an actor: good smile, good demeanor, ease of speech, individual achievement. The Assembly is a show with supporting actors and principal, a daily and intriguing show. Television plays the drama of repressive and judicial bodies, "Law & Order" is a series that advertises the capitalist State.

Capitalism in the cultural war is entrenched in the "freedom of speech", as we know, it is actually freedom of capitalist enterprise, freedom of dominant classes to install in people's acceptance of domination. Any discussion of complaint of Revolution, any action to defend the ideological aggression, is denounced as totalitarianism, Stalinism, ideology.

The war between capitalism and Socialism is a cultural and ideological clash, and we have nderstand it, every action o us, must express firstly in the theater of operations of the war of ideologies, the cultural war, there should begin planning, and this will be the measure of success.

There is no material gain that supplants, that dispenses ideology, spiritual and consciousness. There is no material force that overcomes power of an idea. In every action of the Revolution should emerge stronger the social spirituality, union, fraternity, a new way of relating to men. Every action, as common as it seems, should become in astonishment, a guide towards the new society, the New Man.

With Chavez more than ever!

THE GLOBAL CRISIS PRECISES HEROIC RESPONSES

The world is suffering a systemic crisis, that everybody accepts it but nobody faces it: they hide it, they turn it to the other side, they think that the remedy is ignore it. However, the global crisis hits us. It is enough to read the headlines to warn about it.

In Japan, nuclear energy has its grave, even the whales got contaminated. Floods combine with enourmus droughts. Migrations of hungry people are unconcealed, the food shortage is very serious. The financial problems, debts of the great, the needs of little, portend a drastic change in the economic map. Europe sniffs the fall of its common market.

There is little doubt of the impossibility of capitalism. It failed, the partial healing are not enough, the contortions to save it only manage to sink it more. This would be promissory for an unprepared Revolutionary: "The capitalist system crumbles, very good!" The problem is that capitalism falls, no doubt, but in its collapse it takes with it humanity and planetary life.

The crisis is global, it is a worldwide crisis, everything is related because the capitalist economy is related, and damage to the planet's ecology affects us all. Nobody escapes from the crisis, one of the things that the powerful can do is to move temporarily to the weakest, but early t hey will feel the rigors of the emergency.

The problems of the U.S.' economy impact on the planet, its deficit, its high debt is unease that reflects the disease afflicting the rest of the world economy, oil prices are a symptom of economic imbalance. Nobody is saved from the crisis.

Blindness face to this situation is just as deep to the magnitude of the tragedy that already afflicts us. Humanity lost the ability to relate, so it does not captures the crisis that already shows its consequences.

The blind humanity and its foolish leaders, continue to face the crisis with the same logic that created it, they avoid -at all costs- go to the bottom of this problem, its mental structure, the laws that govern them, their habits of millennia, influence a suicidal behavio,, they can not do anything but repeat the same script for centuries: imported by the small, the insignificant, letting the forces blind from the market that engulf life.

We are in a terminal stage. Heroic measures are necessary, drastic changes, salvation begins with Revolutionary measures.

Are no longer possible partial cures, the system collapses and with it humanity. There is no time for theoretical discussions, for testing, it is necessary to break with the behavior that brought us here, we should all be aware of the serious situation, but especially the leaders of the country and the world should alert and alert us of danger.

It is not possible to continue with the schizophrenia of the old politics of endorsing to the adversary the symptoms of the crisis.

With Chavez more than ever!

THE WAY TO THE TOP IS A ZIGZAG

The Revolutionary road -as the paths to the tops- is zigzag, it is never a direct way. There are days when the road gets clear, then the progres is fast, everything looks beautiful, vigor increases and the sun shines brightly, but sometimes everything blurs, there is a feeling of loosing track, the road seems to be returned, it gets narrow and brings confusion.

The Revolutionary path is a zigzag because it is a confrontation, a fierce national and international struggle of classes. A Revolution is a vital center where the tensions of the world erupt creating great turbulence. The way is full of paradoxes and meanders.

Understanding the whirlwind -that is a Revolution- is complicated because history and books draw it with direct lines, there the crooked lines do not fit in real life and the daily struggle, there are no looks, voices, intrigues and love that looses in time. History -we might say- life has robbed of life. The story is only a partial guide

It is not easy to orientate in the Revolutionary storm, the errors are many, the seductions are abundant, confusions are everywhere. It should be an accurate compass.

First of all, it is to understand that Revolution carries within its bosom the counter Revolution, which is much more pronounced if the Revolution is peaceful. Hence, large spiritual and material areas are dominated by the old culture. Men, ideas, customs, and the actions of capitalism inhabiting the Revolutionary camp.

Thus, very doubt, every situation -at first inexplicable- must be analyzed from the perspective of struggle of class, the ideological confrontation that occurs within Revolution.

Sometimes the conflict between the interests of dominant classes and the classes formerly insurgents, takes place in national elections, then it is easier to perceive the fields. Sometimes occurs in an appointment, and is more difficult to catch sight of it.

When the confrontation happens in the elections of party's authoities, it passes confused with personal disputes. Sometimes, it takes the form of worker's dismissal, then it wears of reorganization. In opportunities, it hides behind the failure of a judge or a prosecutor.

Only by understanding the Revolution so we can maintain or correct the course, explain when the internal or external enemy, we are in breach of a defeat.Understanding such paradox occurs daily in the process, begin to understand the depths of the social movement.

The Revolutionary battle requires perseverance, it is not possible to be heartless by the misunderstanding products of inner struggles, on the contrary, we must understand it as a fundamental part of Revolution. To Bolivar was so important the Battle of Carabobo, as the confrontation against Santander Ocaña.

Let no one be discouraged. Everybody to study Revolution as an external and internal confrontation, to analyze its laws, to investigate the opposing forces, and how they express themselves. Only then we will find the location needed in the fight, we will accept the obstacles, discouragement will not take place in us, we will always recognize ourselves as part of a great army in battle.

With Chavez more than ever!

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MARCIANO'S LOOK

Marcian in his "Piedra de Tranca" brings to stage a major issue for Revolution. He opens a discussion that is needed, always arguments and the high issues, benefit the processes. Marciano wrote:

"Every respected political and social process, must be aware not only of what happens out in the outside, in the country, but also -and this is extremely important- what happens within. Those leaders have to be aware of what is happening within the guts, stomach, kidney, liver, etc. It is not the first time that a popular and Revolutionary movement fails while being in power, it collapses because of the lack of inner control. By ignoring what happens in its bosom and being obsessed with what happens outside”.


"Revolutions can fail," we agree; however, the discrepancy comes when we study the causes of failure.


Marciano attributes this failure to lack of inner control and the obsession with what happens outside, and loads to this cause the defeat of Nicaraguans, the Soviet Union, justifying Cuba's continuance because of its attention to domestic issues. We think that this argument is incomplete, only "geographical", it privates from the ideological component and therefore it confines the discussion to the boundaries of the problems. The ideological mislay is always -inevitably- in the bottom of every Revolutionary failure. We can say that every defeated Revolution was previously defeated whithin ideology. Let's see.

The Soviet Union fell by a huge ideological deviation that led to all sorts of perversions ethically and morally. The background of this diversion, said by Che, it was to used the jagged tools of capitalism to try to build Socialism. They forgot that the economic education has an immediate reflection in consciousness, spirituality, they encouraged selfishness.

The Soviet Union falls because of capitalism's excesses, not Socialism. And the reason targeted by Marciano can be consider as superficial.

Marciano refers finally to Venezuela, he warns of the danger of failure, and he notes symptoms he attributed to the obsession for what happens aoutside and neglecting what is inside. Marciano wrotes:

IT IS NOT A STORY this scribbler wants to show. It is reality. Everyday reality. That is hurting. I quote two cases: 1) What happens in State police agencies, in which unacceptable situations are occurring ...
2) ANOTHER CASE: A restaurant in Sabana Grande, which takes away the parking lot, which is essential for it to work (...). What bureaucrat ordered this measure? (...) The process has to look inward, where the enemy is also present, in the form of a inept worker, corrupt or simply a groveler.

The alert is good, but the source pointed is inadequate. The root of these problems we must find them primarily by a reformist deviation supported by the petit bourgeois ideology. Let's remember that Miguel Enriquez, the Chilean MIR, ruled that Allende's failure was not the failure of Socialism but of reformism.

With Chavez more than ever!

THE ELECTORAL SPELL

The electoral curse, like a gray cloud, pasty, is taking account of the national environment. Everything conditions it, it corners the thought and spreads triviality, the pun, the publicity stunt, and it makes us a weak territory.

It is no coincidence, it is part of the fourth generation warfare. The war ceased to be "the politics continued by other means" as Clausewitz wrote;,and it already have fused politics and war, so it is difficult to differentiate them, they form a single entity. Policy is made in the same spirit that motivates the bombings, those are the same private companies that promote the bombs and elections, the theater is more spiritual than geographical. Everything is leaded by the military-industrial complex called gringo.

Here in Venezuela the aggression took the form of bourgeois elections, and cretinism is already rampant, the opposition opened the drawer of witchcraft spells and begin to neutralize the rebel spirit, so they captivate people, and pave the way for an unexpected snatch and misunderstood by the drugged.

Within the opposition stupid things are spoken, the dilemmas are futile, they discuss whether to be like Chavez or be different, attacking him from the front or side, to hide the plans or speak in favor of capitalism. The snobs are with their daily advertising tricks that come from the north. For gringos it is not important the numerical result of the election, their goal is to create an immediate society, selfish, incapable of reasoning, that sees beyond appearances. In short, capable of being his own executioner.

The empire is quiet clear: it knows that elections are a theater of military and politic operations, and they act that way. Its aim is a society capable of self-flagellation, and build its own coffin.

The Revolution must combat sorcery electoral cretinism who want to impose. Elections should consider an operation of the fourth generation warfare, in which the objective, rather than numbers, is the soul of the population. The electoral reality is a fiction that ultimately decides the course of the process.

Imagine the theater military-political: win, this is the most likely outcome, we have a majority, Chavez crushed the opposition candidate. In that case, would be fools to expect the rule, clinton, obama, the military-industrial complex resign, do nothing, recognize the cleanliness of the elections and retire to his fights in other continents.

It is more sensible to think that anything invented to confuse the situation. You smear campaign ahead, accused of fraud (remember they have never recognized the CNE), will promote its media manifestations crowed around the world, create color revolutions.

Thus, the minimum reflection advised to prepare for a war in which elections are a battle. The objective of the Revolution is a population organized, informed, highly aware of their historical role, high altruism can emerge triumphant in all phases of the assault of global capitalism.

With Chavez more than ever!

THE FOURTH FOOL

Bolívar once said: "Christ, Don Quixote and I, the three fools of history" ... Likely Che, in the cold of the Bolivian jungle, thought of himself like the fourth fool.

Thus, the highest rung of human species, of being Revolutionary, of being a fool, is reserved for recalcitrant people to the cause of love for world-building, and who are trying to engage life.

Fool is the highest honor that a human can aspire, it is reserved for those who reach the highest peaks of the Revolutionary eagerness, and it is a Degree created by the same Simón Bolivar.

We do not know if Che was a known member of this select group ... It does not matter, there is no doubt he is the fourth fool.

Che was a lofty Revolutionary, he wanted to change the entire world, his goal was humanity, he grew so much that the globe fit him small. Asia, Africa, America and Europe were theater of operation for his theory and practice. He criticized and struggled in all humanity, and proposed a theory to transform the planet.

Thus, the big think big, they have the ability to respond to the fundamental problems of existence of mankind, they do not confine, and their environment is worldwide.

Che –brave- questioned the way of the so-called "real Socialism", the Soviet and Chinese, but not as an excuse to return to the shameful refuge of capitalism, but to go on an adventure of sailing into the future. He developed the theoretical compass to guide humanity in this necessary journey.

His life is an example, his theory is required azimuth. It is unthinkable a Revolution without it being deeply soaked in the ideas of Che.

There is no Socialism without fulfilling the commandments of Che, which are the same of all fools:

Love one another. This command of Christ, which spans two thousand years of history and its validity remains intact, has guided the Revolutionaries, the fools.

Spirit over material. Che based his whole theory that Socialism is not a material matter, it is primarily a spiritual fact.

Fraternity over hate. Che -following Marti's teachings- preached that only love builds. Let’s remember the idea that Revolution is guided by deep feelings of love.

Offering life, loyal to the cause of humbles. Loyalty is an essential condition for the Revolutionary task. Loyalty to the principles and men who embody them.

A large dose of insanity. Diving into the void with no safety net. The Revolutionary fact -unprecedented in its essence- needs madness to dare, to leave the mooring at the port of habit, and throw in the vertigo of flying high.

To not aim for more glory than serving. The Revolutionary has the quality of playing God, while keeps his humility where he recognizes himself as a particle altogether.

With Chavez more than ever!