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 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!
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