SCIENCE AND “LA VINOTINTO”

Once, a classical writer said that few things harm a Revolution as much as playing leftism.

Here, there are of variety of types, it is easy to identify them, they do not know where to place in the vanguard of humanity, they are happy with stridency. Some are colourful, safe; they belong to the Revolutionary folklore. Others, however -acting as leaders- are extremely harmful, they show erratic directions. Some spew absurd measurements. Let's see.

Our responsible for the scientific direction pose a wrong thesis that leads us towards the scientific illiteracy, they expose a senseless antagonism between science and "neighbourhood knowledge", thus depriving society from the scientific knowledge.

They move the path directly to failure; it is the same ideological argumentation that has drilled the political education efforts of the people. There will not be more achievement than ignorance.

The Minister in charged declares:

"The scientific development in our country has taken a quantitative and qualitative jump, even more during times of Independence."

Simultaneously, he affirms that: "... now the popular science it fostered, which is able to put smiles on the people and remove the cap and gown, and feel humble, getting out of that sphere to exchange with ancient cultures."

But he assimilates all this only to financing, he does not show any new findings, and he does not report new discoveries, or journal creations or formation of new top scientists, everything is rhetoric.

This issue is vital for Revolution; we can say that without the scientific progress, without frontier science, Socialism will not be possible, neither independence. The empire knows that, and it steals the brains, so it murders the Iranian nuclear scientists. And we –gullible- do the work for free, we divest of everything in this vital field.

Countries that have tried Revolution have prestige science, that one that we now call disdainfully the science of "white coat" of "cap and gown”. In the Soviet Union and Cuba, they raised science to levels of frontier, there are hundreds of high research centres; the Scientific Pole of Havana is an example. Revolution has a gap in this field.

Only from these centres we can socialize the scientific knowledge, enhance the capacity of understanding of the people and get rid of the scientific illiteracy.

Antagonism between popular and science is wrong, the poor, the excluded were also stripped from science. What we have to do is give to them the opportunity for a better education, to those talents from the dispossessed people.

Revolution must face science differently. It is necessary respect the acquisition of knowledge, as an extraordinary effort - never spontaneous- that takes years of dedication. We must give prestige to our scientists, as well as “La Vinotinto”. The heroes are a reflection of their country’s soul.

The attitude of demonizing science is childish; it hurts us all, we should be proud of the achievements of science, and form scientific centres and enhancing the few existing.

Without Chavez there is not Socialism, without Socialism there is no Chavez!