SELFISHNESS AND FEAR

If we define the petit bourgeoisie in two words it would be selfishness and fear, in that order. From selfishness comes out fear.

The petit bourgeoisie excessively summarizes the values ​​of the dominant class, fueled by desperation to rise towards the status that is denied to it: become bourgeois. They are condemned to be a caricature of the dominant class to copy –exaggerated- the brushstrokes that define the bourgeois picture. This is how the symbols of power show off, imitating the originals, and that makes them feel more frustration than pleasure. Their bourgeois disguise is never enough.

Being so, it is a very fearful class; its main fear is the inability to imitate the bourgeoisie, the failure to flaunt its costumes, buying the symbols that imitate power; the symbols dictated by the propaganda that manipulates them. They are frightened to live very close to “barrios”, and not being able to maintain its distance from the "rabble." So they try to isolate themselves with check points, smoked crystals, electric fences, satellite surveillance systems, life insurances, car insurances, but not the insurances that guarantee they will not fall into the social scale, those does not exist.

They think they make their living on their own, without relationship with anyone, they face life alone. Hence, a profound selfishness and its immense fear emerge. We could paraphrase Marti’s words by saying, "The petty vain bourgeois believes that his neighborhood, his condo is the world, and as long as he enters it, passing the fragile check point that covers its entrance he feels satisfied, he ignores stars and comets”.

The fear that dwells them makes them vulnerable. Above them floats the economic meltdown, dismissal, the closure of their income source, they do not require more services; the fast technological obsolescence ruins little companies. However, all this anxiety coming from the economic weakness which submitted by the bourgeois, all that fear is redirected to the humble and who tries to redeem it. The petit bourgeois, paradoxically, does not hate the bourgeois who depletes it; but the humble, who is as victim as him, does not aim his hatred at the candidates of capitalism but against candidates who try to redeem humanity, including them.

Thus, the hate of the petit bourgeois is irrational, insane, so it is cruel, very dangerous. It is able of anything carried by his existential anguish, capable of accepting any cruelty, of killing to which he considers, mistakenly, the source of his uneasiness.

When madness comes out, it explodes, there is no reasoning or thinking that is worth it, they act commanding us through fear, and terror dilutes their ethical ties. This explains fascism.

We are not talking about Europe; we saw madness near here, who murdered García Lorca, Victor Jara, who disappeared thousands in the Southern Cone. In Chuao, in the siege of the glorious Embassy of Cuba we saw acting the crazy mob and its leaders.

With Chavez forever!

TWO CYCLES

Our peaceful Revolution has two cycles: the electoral cycle and the prosperity cycle. We must understand them in order to design the tactics and strategies. Let's see.

The electoral cycle is the period of bourgeois elections and a non-elections period.

In the non-election period, Revolution can develop its own logic, its physiology. It is a favorable period to establish the material and spiritual basis of Socialism. Revolution is ahead, it has the initiative, and the battle is taken in a clear field. In this stage of the cycle, we must take the most of it to gain awareness, organization, and training in order to sharp the revolutionary force.

On the contrary, in the bourgeois-electoral period, the oligarchy fights within its field. This is supported by almost century of customs and conditionings. We have already said that the bourgeois elections are made to perpetuate the bourgeois system and elevate its spiritual essence: selfishness. This election is a tournament where the mass is immersed in what is trivial; the glitter of marketing superimposes to the substance, what is immediate covers what is strategic, and the manipulation of advertising guides the decisions. The promise, the material gift refuses any argument. From them, that is the custom, a fragmented mass, depoliticized, childish.

Therefore, it is a period where the revolutionary consciousness, the organization, the information gained during the non-electoral stage is tested. If accumulation is deficient; then Revolution has to make concessions to the bourgeois-electoral logic; and subordinate it to itself the advance, granting that awareness and training decreases. Now, if the accumulation is successful, Revolution can give other content to the elections.

The prosperity cycle, at the same time, consists of a period of "normality" and a turbulence period.

The period of "normality" is characterized by a good economic situation, of high oil prices, retracted oligarchy, without initiative, working in the underground of infamy, preparing assassinations, coups, screaming from Miami or Peru, but without raising too many waves. In this period, Revolution has the opportunity to move forward, to break with the culture of rent and laying the ethical and spiritual foundations, which strengthen Revolution.

The period of turbulence is characterized by economic difficulties, low oil prices and the pressure of the recognition of the mass. During this period, as in the election period but even dramatic, the strength gained in the period of "normality is tested".

There are two cycles and four periods. Success will depend on the tight assessment of each one. These cycles represent a high risk of loss, in the propitious stages for the accumulation there is the temptation to forget that the wind ahead of us is temporary, and neglecting the strengthening for the turbulence periods. These periods of prosperity are favorable for the theory spin, reformists and restorer. The class that swings between the bourgeoisie and the workers, which the classical writers call petit bourgeoisie -a term that offends some- has a fertile field for the testing of their mistake.

With Chavez!

ESTUDY, AN INSTRUMENT OF VICTOR

The Bolivarian Revolution, since its beginning, has as main foundation to transfer power to the people. This concept cannot be understood only in terms of philanthropic management, which is important but not enough. The power of the people lies in two fundamental pillars: organization and the knowledge that sustain consciousness. Without these two pillars everything will crumble.

The Liberator said in its aftermath: "Moral and Education are our primary needs". "An ignorant people are the blind instrument of its own destruction". Bolivar lived the sadness of seeing manipulated the people he loved, abused in its credulity by its enemies, became into its own executioner. Ignorance transformed into conceit, virtue, put the people against its Liberator.

Today’s Revolution, continuing the Bolivarian quest, must feed on the experience of Independence. It has defeated countless battles: April's, the oil sabotage, elections.

However, as the process advances the qualities that circumstances demand to the mass and to its leaders, are bigger. Neither the feeling nor intuition are enough, the challenges require knowledge, study, constant training. Improvisation and lack of rigor are flaws increasingly dangerous, it does not have place in the beautiful march towrads the construction of Socialism. Marti, within his wisdom, said: "be educated to be free".

Today, we are required to study the Second Socialist Plan that will be the script for the nation over the next six years. Commander Chavez submits it to the people for its study, complementation and analysis. It is an unprecedented gesture as well as a challenge. There is no place for improvisation, for spontaneity; in these circumstances it is irresponsible. It is necessary seriousness, rigor, study, the concepts as the basis of opinions.

The consultation of the Socialist Plan is the initiative of transferring power to the people more important than Revolution has ever done: it is ask to the people to rise and build its course, to know this Plan and to know the reason for every action, detached from the local to achieve national and international dimensions. This fact increases the demands. Now, it is necessary to refine the organization and the study that feeds reflection.

It is in this environment that the school “El Arado y El Mar” put its educational materials at everybody’s disposal, its classes and textbooks that are the basic segment of the study of the Revolutionary theory. There are presented concepts to understand and judge the reality we live in, we are sure that this will be useful in the task of enriching and understanding the Second Socialist Plan.

Materials can be found on the Web elaradoyelmar.com and elaradoyelmar.tv, a radio that transmits the audios from that School. You can also obtain information on the South Awareness program delivered from Monday to Friday through RNV-91.1 FM at six pm at “El Clásico” channel, also you can write to elaradoyelmar@gmail.com

With Chavez we will study and we will win!

SOCIALISM OR LAST PERIOD

The thinking species has so much power to create and destroy that is the only one to commit suicide, to end life and destroy the planet. His intelligence is so high that he created war; he manufactured bombs that can destroy the planet several times, he created a flying unmanned aircraft, nuclear submarines, and a long and impressive etcetera. But the height of human distortion is the worship of Mammon, money, capital, wealth. Let's see.

We are used to have a relationship of accumulation of material things, who has the most is powerful, we summarize material goods into money, who has more money, who is able to get things and possess more, will be the most powerful of all. This division between holders and dispossessed seems natural. We think this is normal and we will always think so for the rest of times.

Accumulation is possible because the means of production -at some point- became non-social property, and means of exploitation; there is where man appropriates the work of other men. Who stole the land, the factory, could put conditions to the dispossessed; necessity forced them to work for the owner of the means of production.

We live in a world, in which it is possible for men to steal other men’s work, and the product of this massive theft becomes in merchandise, and this merchandise turns into money within the market, which is accumulated labor. This relationship between men has consequences.

This creates a spirituality that justifies, reproduces and perpetuates that relationship that makes possible the massive theft of labor. The essence of this spirituality is selfishness and competition. We all transform into merchandise, worshipers of Mammon, of capital, it governs life, humanity, and everything turns around profit, around accumulation. What benefits capital, to Mammon, is good, and what hurts it, is bad. Man switches his place with money, now he is just a slave of an evil religion that some people call capitalism.

This perverse idolatry, capitalism, has transformed us into a non-society, into a combination of selfishness, it has transformed us into selfish islands, and we are like puppets moved by the strings of consumption and production. The eager for profit, transformed into collective madness, leads us towards unhappiness. We suffer from a disease called capitalism, which alter our natural needs and override our limits of satiety. So, we live the restlessness of discontent, we are "always dissatisfied".

It is necessary to defeat fetishism, the religion of capital, founding the love for humanity, and urgently, it is necessary to establish a new way of relating with each others, rescuing relationships. This is only possible within Socialism, a society where the human is the center, and nature regains its status as sanctuary of life, and everyone lives according to their capacity and receives according to his needs, where nobody accumulates material things and every one lives for the good of all.

Chavez is Socialism!

OPPOSITE PROJECTS

Last Sunday and Monday were registered two options for the elections, two projects of opposite civilization, as opposite as water and oil.

One of them is the old path of capitalism, failed in the world that crunches under its leadership; Europe is a single cry, China cannot hide its crisis, and gringos that cannot find who else to exploit; yes, capitalism is exhausted, and therefore it is more dangerous than ever, the dying monsters lose any scruple, in its desperation to survive, it wipes out all life.

Capitalism, in the middle of a terminal crisis, has reserved for the periphery countries the role of supporting its wasteful system, being its captive markets, being its suppliers of raw materials, and providing cannon fodder for its colonizing battles.

In this pathetic picture, Venezuela would lead the main role, the large reserves of energy, water, and mineral wealth make us target of the imperial voracity. They need oil and plenty of gas -but given, they do not care if the people suffer the consequences of dispossession. That is the environment in which capriles’ campaing will move, with him there is no choice but to be a subjugated piece in the support of the imperial waste, a lifeline of its terminal crisis. The future he offers -beyond his lies- is misery.

World capitalism has a terrible future reserved, it will unleash the horsemen of the apocalypse, and the northern crisis will hit us with horrors. The North -that despises us- requires exploiting the South, it has no choice. The capitalist candidate has to follow the script, selling our motherland. We have to suspect of who considers capitalism.

The other possibility that appears to the electoral battle is the one that points the way to overcome capitalism, it seeks ways of organization to enhance social force, and integrate us as a society.

It is not a mere electoral proposal -it is known that the country's future, of this generation and those following- to overcome capitalism, and it is known that Socialism is the only way to do it, it is the continuation of a struggle for the emancipation of the human that takes millennia.

The task of building paths to escape from the fate of capitalism is fraught with difficulties, the dominant classes know the soul of the enslaved, they manipulate it, they deceive it, and so they have get to plunder mankind since the beginnings of history.

Liberation was always a goal to achieve a better life, end exploitation and slavery. Now, the struggle to free ourselves from capitalism is a battle where the fate of humanity is decided, a battle of life. Capitalism leads mankind to the abyss of extinction. In its excessive eagerness for profit; in its voracity it has injured in such way the balance of life that led it to the limits of existence. We are approaching a point where the gap is such, that there will be no return.

The choice of the Commander is the guarantee of the continuity of life.

Chavez is guarantee!

HOW TO WIN THE MIDDLE CLASS?

The Bolivarian Revolution -since its beginnings- has looked for an answer, implementing every type of incentives to captivate the petty bourgeoisie, the middle class... the result is modest, the middle class is still working irrationally against us and it erodes our natural social base. Let’s review

The intention of winning the love of this social stratum with material praising has failed. The polls affirm it. If it is a class that is not hit in its economy, in its daily live: Why it is working against us? If it is still consuming, it is still vacationing: why does it prefer to wash cars in Miami?

The answer lies in the psyche, in the spiritual; there is where the combat takes place. Oligarch’s leaders have the intelligence to create fictitious tyrants, false loss of liberties, false shortages, fragmenting society, proposing individual selfish solutions, terrorizing and then presenting absurd to relieve the panic.

That is how a candidate for municipality mayor proposes to make his municipality a "safety island", isolating it from the rest of humanity, and so the neighbors can breathe peacefully. It is likely that this absurd egoism raised the most, wins elections.

This candidate has what the instruments of deformation sow in the soul of society: egoism. That is the center of the battle: selfishness against the sense of society, against love.

Within Revolution, we have made the mistake of avoiding this battle field, we merely flatter the middle class, fighting only in the material, and we ignore the battle for the spirit of the middle class.

We must demonstrate two important points:

First, we must show the impossibility of continue living how capitalism imposes us. We cannot live a wasting while others live in misery, and everyone damaging nature. It is clear that if the capitalist aggression against nature continues, the minimum conditions for life will disappear and its extinction will come, but before that the war of “all against all” will reach the unheard.

Second, we have to show the benefits of Socialism as the only way to get a peaceful and happy atmosphere for this generation and future generations. Only the integrated societies that function as one self will be able to deal successfully the potential difficulties ahead.

The dilemma is clear: if we continue flattering the middle class with material privileges, the results will be minimal, and during the attempt we will lose “chavista” social base. Now, if we take the path of conviction, a call of conscience, then we will have the opportunity to break the though shell of rejection in the middle class.

The revolutionary system of the media of ideas must be understood as the instruments of a war that has been staged in the soul of society. We cannot keep battling with the same methods, the same spots that were used at the beginning of last century, it is necessary to understand advertising as a matter for specialists and not as a whim. Let’s spread Socialism with the passion of the cast away.

Chavez is Peace!

FRATERNITY AND CLASS STRUGGLE

Insistently Revolution and Commander Chavez are accused of being promoters of hatred between brothers, of disintegration of society, of being sowers of discord and promoters of class struggle. Is this true? Let's see.

Society, as we know it, is divided into classes, and this division is not a whim, nor will of humans, it is a product of economic relations, it happens beyond wishes. However, the divided society lives in a constant class struggle. The excluded classes, deprived, exploited, express their disagreement, their discomfort, their rebellion, in different ways, from crime, the struggle for wages, popular demonstrations, songs, to art, philosophy, etc...

When that class struggle rises to a struggle for the seizing of power, from there it develops different projects of society and nation; then, the class struggle makes politics. If as a product of that political struggle, there is a displacement of the ruling classes that used to appropriate of the social wealth, then a period where there are possibilities to develop a project of a different country opens up, we are speaking -in this case- of a revolutionary period.

In Venezuela, with the arrival to power of Commander Chavez, a revolutionary period makes its way. It is understood that the class struggle has always existed, but only now is expressing politically, with the possibility of imposing a project of society different to the exploitative capitalist project. Let’s consider the struggling projects.

On one hand, there is the globalization capitalist project promoted by the empire, its best example is the trade agreement with Mexico, creator of such levels of poverty that is necessary the construction of a modern Chinese wall that isolates the United States of the miserable whose system has created.

On the other hand, there is the project of the Bolivarian and Christian Socialism advocated by Commander Chavez. A project whose object is to integrate society, rebuild the social relationships based on love, build a society where nobody takes ownership of the wealth that belongs to all, that nobody lives within the opulence at the expense of appropriating the social wealth, that nobody is excluded, in short, that man stop being the wolf’s man.

It is clear that the revolutionary project is a project of true peace, peace with justice. It is a project of inclusion, that does not discriminate, where everyone have room for all who want to collaborate in the building of a world where the individual stop being an orphan in a desert of selfishness.

Motherland is socialism!

With Chavez we build the Society of Love!

THE SOCIAL COMPENSATION

Capitalism produced a huge social debt, it plunged society into the material and spiritual misery: hunger, exclusion from all the benefits and from opportunities that covered the majorities.

Socialism must pay that debt; it is a duty and a necessity. However, it is impossible to pay the social debt only materially, it is indispensable or risk that everything will collapse, building new relationships -now loving- between these men along with nature, building a new world where there is no appropriation of another's work, as Marti said: "everyone fight for the benefit of all".

Everyone for the benefit of all, which is a great summary of what Socialism is. But, how do we implement it? What are the main points governing its construction?

The classic writers left us the pillar of theory, which is indispensable for the construction of Socialism: "From each one according to his/her ability, to each one according to his/her needs". This precept has its roots within the early Christianity, the one that Christ left us in his sermons, in community life.

The Bolivarian Revolution on its road towards Socialism must adapt to its reality to the universal Socialist theory, which is the result of centuries of human struggles to free from the selfish monster that it created himself.

Revolution must start from reality of rentier country, with distortions in our economy and our social behavior, where richness comes from the income instead of coming from work. Politics in these hundred years of oil revenues has been marked by this situation. The oil compensation, the distribution of income, ranks the governments: "who distributes more is better". During prosperity the government is sympathetic; when the incomes are low the government is struggling.

The leftovers of oil incomes gave stability to the governments, the people drugged of consumerism were sinking in the spiritual and material misery. Patronage was the opium of the people, the gifts muffled any protest.

This material and spiritual structure must be demolished, it is necessary to remedy the material lacks, and especially to replace the spirituality that used to hold that evil shell. This is where the theoretical pillar of Socialism becomes important. Let's see.

By giving each one according to his/her needs, a house, access to health, education, etc.., we are compensating for the social debt within the material.

By demanding each one according to his/her ability, giving back what it was received, compensating for society the benefit that this gives to it, we are creating social awareness, creating the Awareness of Social Duty.

Any benefit for society -through the State- given to the individual must be compensated with work, according to its capacity. The benefits that society gives are not an economic transaction; it is an exchange of affection and love.

Chavez is Peace!

THE PLOUGH AND THE SEA

The Liberator, at some point in his life, realized that something was missing, the dream was unconcluded, practice did not had the desired end, reality had not changed, or it had changed towards the mistake, the expected benefits were not gotten, practice was not enough and a thousand of victorious battles failed to change the world.

We know little of his deliberations in those sad days when he emerged defeated and even used by an oligarchy that reproduced the essence of the old. However, his last words overlook the anguish of his mornings:

He exclaimed, "I have ploughed the sea!" The plough, the practice could not change reality, the sea. Something was missing, it was not for the lack of courage, dedication or effort offered up to the Motherland ... What had gone wrong? Why, why..?

He denounced "they abused of your credulity". He attributed the conduct of the glorious people, liberator of a thousand battles, of all the sacrifices, the conqueror of adversity, to the manipulation of the oligarchies, and finishes off by saying: ... "They trod what I hold most sacred, my reputation and my love for freedom”.

The Liberator’s work was unfinished, Marti says: "...what he left undone, nowadays is still undone: because Bolivar still has to do in America".

The wait is over. They returned to the days of Independence, in San Pedro Alejandrino the dream was not buried. Now we have elements, we know how to "Plough the sea and be successful".

We know that the practice (plowing) with which we want to change reality (the sea) should be guided by theory, the connection that gives meaning to practice. Modification of reality cannot go beyond the theory that supports the practice.

The Liberator went as far as theory of that time and the conditions of a colony allowed him. The ideology was born of the French Revolution, which had as a limit the goals of the bourgeoisie, which quickly became conservative, crushing the Haitian Rebellion, exploiting the European workers and colonizing the world. The Liberator prophesied the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie that was building a new domination, he concluded: "the United States seems destined by providence to plague America with shame in the name of freedom”.

Bolivar still lives among us, he dreamed beyond his time, with his spirit passed through the centuries, he was a leader of the future, his thought is valid, and his goals are the goals of today.

Now we have the theory to overcome the bourgeois revolution, we can go where Bolivar wanted; we can conquer the greatest happiness, we can finish with men-merchandise, we can found a new world. We have a theory that guides practice. Humanity in two hundred years has brought forth the ideas that guide the plough. We know what to do; we have new weapons and we know the jagged weapons. There are no excuses, this time San Pedro Alejandrino will not be repeated, we will sow at sea, and we will make Revolution.

Chavistas!

ON THE EDGE OF LEGALITY

The board of fascism works on the edge of legality, from there, in that twilight zone tempts the government, it challenges the law, it is building a kind of power that opposes the revolutionary power. The tactic is not new; it was used on the prolegomenon of april’s coup, it was pushing legality and gradually it reached the gates of Miraflores.

The oligarchs led by the faction of the facists capriles-leopoldo move forward in their pro-coup plan. Ignorance of the court order and disobedience to the Supreme Court are a serious step towards the road to the unacquainted with the government, of its legality, it leads to a violent outcome. It is similar to when in a public event they do not follow the enabling legislation. It is a pre-coup. The board of fascism clearly begins to function as a major state of the gringo-occupation.

We know it, Allende illustrates it, that peaceful revolutions live on the edge of legality, oligarchy is only respected when is weak, then, it uses of sabotaje, when it gets a little strength, when it accumulates a little power attacks legality. Thus, the good sense of Revolution is to be prepared for this blow, not being naïve, not thinking that oligarchy is democratic and respects the law. No, they have no law but the empire's interests.

Now, it is imperative that the Bolivarian mass mobilizes, that workers and peasants take the political moment we are living, and over any subordinate goal manifest in a militant way, on the streets, with the fury of the wounded motherland, the will to defend the government, Commander Chavez and Socialism; which is the way to defend our Motherland. Only mobilization will stop the coup, it will preserve peace.

The fascist oligarch and the empire must understand that if they dare, if they insist on the game of democratic rhetoric and practice coup, to use the law to prepare its violation, if they persist with april’s game, we will find a formidable wall in the defense of our future. We will not give our Nation.

We will defend peace with the only way possible, by showing the gringos that their plans will turn out so expensive here that they are not viable; that if they dare, the continent will become in a redemptive flame, it will not be more boundary that the dignity of peoples, we all will be brothers, the whole continent that condemns imperialists and their lackeys. Then, the fire of decorum will forge our Great Motherland, the one that liberators dreamed of.

Do not mess with our motherland, these oligarchs do not accept CNE, but they use it for unknown their purposes, they do not recognize highest courts, they talk about the coup shamelessly, they accuse Chavez of anything, and propose assassination. It is time to make them feel that if they dare, if they break the law, we do not seize by surprise, we will be ready to deepen, from capitalism will not be left stone unturned.

With Chavez forever!

ON THE EDGE OF LEGALITY

The board of fascism works on the edge of legality, from there, in that twilight zone tempts the government, it challenges the legality, it is building a kind of power that opposes the revolutionary power. The tactic is not new; it was used on the prolegomenon of april’s coup, it was pushing legality and gradually it reached the gates of Miraflores.

The oligarchs led by the faction of the facists capriles-leopoldo move forward in their pro-coup plan. Ignorance of the court order and disobedience to the Supreme Court are a serious step towards the road to the unacquainted with the government, of its legality, it leads to a violent outcome. It is similar to when in a public event they do not follow the enabling legislation. It is a pre-coup. The board of fascism clearly begins to function as a major state of the gringo-occupation.

We know it, Allende illustrates it, that peaceful revolutions live on the edge of legality, oligarchy is only respected when is weak, then, it uses of sabotaje, when it gets a little strength, when it accumulates a little power attacks legality. Thus, the good sense of Revolution is to be prepared for this blow, not being naïve, not thinking that oligarchy is democratic and respects the law. No, they have no law but the empire's interests.

Now, it is imperative that the Bolivarian mass mobilizes, that workers and peasants take the political moment we are living, and over any subordinate goal manifest in a militant way, on the streets, with the fury of the wounded motherland, the will to defend the government, Commander Chavez and Socialism; which is the way to defend our Motherland. Only mobilization will stop the coup, it will preserve peace.

The fascist oligarch and the empire must understand that if they dare, if they insist on the game of democratic rhetoric and practice coup, to use the law to prepare its violation, if they persist with april’s game, we will find a formidable wall in the defense of our future. We will not give our Nation.

We will defend peace with the only way possible, by showing the gringos that their plans will turn out so expensive here that they are not viable; that if they dare, the continent will become in a redemptive flame, it will not be more boundary that the dignity of peoples, we all will be brothers, the whole continent that condemns imperialists and their lackeys. Then, the fire of decorum will forge our Great Motherland, the one that liberators dreamed of.

Do not mess with our motherland, these oligarchs do not accept CNE, but they use it for unknown their purposes, they do not recognize highest courts, they talk about the coup shamelessly, they accuse Chavez of anything, and propose assassination. It is time to make them feel that if they dare, if they break the law, we do not seize by surprise, we will be ready to deepen, from capitalism will not be left stone unturned.

With Chavez forever!

THE INVASION HAS BEGUN

In front of our candid noses the empire’s invasion has begun. They develop the phase of manipulation of minds. They use their expertise in distortion of reality, in creating fictions. With the primary elections, they created the image of a presidential victory, when it was only a simulation of the electoral reality, a reality show where they could not lose, any outcome will be favorable.

Analysis should go beyond the anecdotal, the numbers do not matter, the trap does no matter, the important thing is to understand the ideological current that moved there, who impose, what is the characteristic of the battle ahead.

To the empire any candidate worked but, paraphrasing Orwell, some served more than others, and it was, manipulation, arrangements, worked perfectly, the retrogrades, the snobs joined and left in the field the ancient pact of punto fijo, the social democracy. capriles defeated Pablo, what does this mean?

The empire chose the bloody path to face Chavez; they are getting ready for it. The candidate is a proven fascist, a veteran of april’s coup, when he and Leopold where the main characters of the most harmful passages of that onslaught of international fascism. Let’s remember the episodes with Rodriguez Chacin and the poet Tarek.

But where capriles graduated of empire’s agent was in the aggression against the Cuban Embassy, ​​there he showed his cowardice besieging an embassy full of children, threatened to make them eat wires and carpets. Everything in the best tradition of yankee soldiers in Iraq or Guantanamo…

To these agents we face, they are the beachhead for an invasion that is already developing. We live similar days to the days during the Independence, the confrontation is the same; we face a stateless oligarchy serving a foreign empire. Today as before, the Bolivarian are opposed to an empire: yesterday was the spanish monarchy, and today the capitalist gringo.

It is necessary to defeat in their manipulative attempts, we must redouble efforts to toughen our social base, barrios, workers, peasants, they all must understand the huge difference of what capriles represents, and what Chavez represents.

Capriles means loss of Independence and, without Independence that left us so much sacrificially the Liberator, there is nothing. We will be colony of international organizations, the days of spiritual and material misery will come back again, days of helplessness for the poor, the love and hatred will be back.

With Commander Chavez there will be Motherland and with it everything can be solved, everything can be reached, everyone will have shelter. There will be life.

The options are clear and defined: let the anti-motherland vote for capriles, whose hearts are in the north, the mercenaries of consumerism and selfishness. Vote for Capriles is surely treason.

For Chavez will vote who defends Motherland, Independence. In our hands will not be repeated San Pedro Alejandrino, we will complete Bolivar’s dream, we will defend Chavez.

With Chavez Forever!

READING REALITY

In politics a mistaken reading of reality is fatal, it leads to the defeat: carlos andres perceived wrongly his victory in the elections, and days after his investiture, the caracazo came. Lenin was right in his thesis of April and eight months after the October Revolution happened, the Soviet Union was born.

We are in the middle of a strong turbulence that began on February the 4th, when the oligarchic domination system found its political opponent, and although it was able to solve the contingency, it did not prevent the rise of Revolution.

We still live that turbulence: not even oligarchy manages to restore its hegemony, or consolidates Revolution; the winds of the struggle agitate the seas of society. It is necessary that revolutionaries read wisely and carefully the signs of times, only in this way we can adjust the course. If we remain blind to the signs, if we fail into its opportune interpretation, then we will be surprised by the slap of reality. Let's see.

The primaries of the retrograde, of the oligarchs are a sign of the intention of the old which refuses to die; they look like if they were take straight out from the dusty attic from the history museum. They staged a show of political onanism, they followed the script set by the gringo embassy and chose the candidate of fascism and anti-motherland.

Surveys tell us that we are doing well; triumphalism must be controlled, because, as Yogi Berra said, "the game is not over untill it is over”.

In addition to this election, which is fundamental, we find signs that we must study carefully and do not underestimate, we have to go to the roots and establish relationships. The events of la piedrita from 23 de Enero community, the protests of those victims dignified by Revolution and, finally, the loss of the reform. Let’s consider.

These three facts indicate that there are flaws in the theory that guides our practice. We noticed and we face those who say that failures should be left under the carpet. The biggest damage that can be done to Revolution is to hide the flaws, let them grow.

Practice tells us that we are not getting the expected results. The victims have been treated with such love, as it was never imagined that a government could give to the humble people. They were never left homeless not even a minute. Those dignified attack the government that supported them, not because they claim or protest because they were treated badly, but they attack because they do not get their houses faster! There are flaws within the theory that guides practice.

La piedrita formed a separated nation, it is called "la piedrita" and, indeed, it keeps good relations with Venezuela and its government.

The reform has the same root, the fact is known to all.

The three signs indicate that we have not overcome selfishness within the masses, on the contrary, we have stimulated with material rewards and isolated organizational forms, without organic connection with society and neglecting the moral consideration.

Chavistas!

SPECIAL PERIOD

One of the most important lessons of the Cuban Revolution is the behavior of that society and its leaders against the collapse of Soviet Socialism. Let's see.

The Cuban economy fell 85% overnight, a blow from which nobody expected recovery, everybody sensed the fall of Fidel's work, some with joy, others with sadness.

But the miracle happened, the Cuban Revolution resisted and preserved the Socialist ideal, thus preserving the possibility of the world’s salvation from capitalist greed, which undoubtedly leads us to hell.

Cuba decree a Special Period that is important to study, in view to the economic difficulties.

That Special Period was caused by scarcity, then it was needed to toughen the moral forces of People, information, social organizations, and the political vanguard, so the People will not give their dignity and Revolution for a "bowl of lentils" .

Economic emergency plans were done, the central planning worked, which is how society takes account of their destiny, their resources, and put them where they need them the most. This way were preserved the main social programs, economy was rationalized, children and the elderly were protected, no one was left behind.

One of the main lessons of that experience is that the socialist society through central planning and the popular initiative overcmes any adversity. Society, the individual and the State intertwined in a common effort overcome the major difficulty that a people has ever suffer in times of peace.The other main experience was the effort that was hold on the Social Duty Awareness. Leaders and the people appealed to the best fiber inherited from the liberators of Cuba, relied on the examples of Martí and the epic of the Sierra Maestra.

The people was called for the sacrifice that founds and preserves, and responded guided by the example of their liberators.

We believe that that Special Period, arising from the dramatic shortcomings, were characterized by the danger of individual outputs, as a ground opportune for selfish temptation.

But there is and there never will be a "market" to pay the sacrifice and the delivery of millions of men for an ideal. That is why the importance of the Battle of Ideas, the battle for the reaffirmation of the of the Social Duty Awareness.

Here in Venezuela, and paradoxically, we are also in a Special Period of oil prosperity, which makes us suitable land for selfish temptation.

The danger is the same, Revolution is lost by selfishness, that is the base of capitalist ideology, but there the shortage arose, and here arises abundance.

So, the way to attack the situation is the same: to call the People to sacrifice what founds and preserves, and with the example of Liberators, to toughrn their moral forces, deepen the Social Duty Awareness, efficiency and information, Faith within Socialism, horror to the oligarchic capitalism.

With Chavez!

THE GREAT WEAPON

Revolution’s main weapon is the theory, ideology and subjectivity. The great revolutionaries have seen it, the Liberator told us: "morality and enlightenment are our primary needs", "an ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction". Marti talked us about the trenches of ideas.

We say that a Revolution can only be defeated if it is defeated earlier within the ideas, within ideologies. The main battle occurs in the world of ideas.

Those who undertake the revolutionary path should be aware that everything will elucidate, ultimately, the world of thinking. There is where the course of revolution is decided. Let’s never forget, as Gramsci believed, that the most powerful of the objective forces of human civilization is subjectivity.

With the gained experience by the world’s revolution, we know that Revolutions in power get to a point where they lose the excitement that unite their masses; the passion that ignited the fire in the early days of the revolutionary commotion gave way to the paralysis of habit, to the bureaucratic needs. Mobilizations can be massive but soulless, with no creativity; numbers can be high, but they do not reflect the loss of spiritual energy. And that does not belong to society.

The sad spectacle of the fall of the Soviet Union and China illustrates this. They did it with no shame or glory. Today, the tangled sophisms that put forward to dress of Socialism to these kings are pathetic, and we know they are the most naked of capitalisms.

We face a limit within the course of the World’s Revolution: As it moves away from the nucleus that originated it, from the events and its primitive actors, they are worn down until restoration.

Why? Where is the flaw? How to avoid it?

According to the experience of the world’s revolution, somewhere the way was missed, and that mistake was, as we now know, in theory. Measures that stimulated selfishness were justified, economic forms that supported that spirituality were created.

We add that the system of needs was not enough changed, the vision of the world was not able to replace and the Awareness of Social Duty could not be render sacred, which is the spiritual foundation of Socialism.

The issue deserves reflection and critique, consider the signs of reality, transforming them into a theory that guides and gives meaning to practice. Theory without practice is as bad as practice without theory.

We must create and discover the theoretical weapons that reinforce Revolution. We can do it, there is already a world’s revolutionary experience, now it is essential to thorough study and criticism, irreverent and loyal. We can not make the mistakes of past revolutions, always go forward and be more and more socialists, let’s not make concessions, "not even this little” to capitalism.

Let’s follow the mandate of the greats, study, ideas, they must guide the practice and this has value as it transformes the world.

Chavistas!

WHERE DOES SOCIALISM LAY?

The planet’s situation is dramatic, capitalism is stronger than ever, it walks wracked by thousand contradictions, it drags crisis, and it has more problems than ever, but paradoxically without any ideology that faces it. This moves the planet, led by the hand of capitalism towards the destruction of the balance of life.

The most advanced governments in the world, the most sensible, denounce the aggressions against the environment, the danger of keeping the path towards capitalism, the suicidal of their paradigms is to continue consuming and producing with the craziness that we it do today. But, without explanation no one, no government does anything to change course of it.

Just an indicative, it is expected that the oil consumption will get to the limits of natural crime, it is expected about 200 million barrels a day and it projects an upward curve. The countries are preparing to participate in the funereal feast, which means the extinction of the species. We can measure the level of insanity of the species by the level of oil consumption, because of its tendency and volume.

We must conclude that despite the agreements, summits, the tendency is to increase insanity, consumption and waste of natural resources.

Thus, we must say it one more time, Socialism is life or death. However, there are a thousand ways of Socialism, each country wants to do their own, and many are mere reforms. But, how can we know which of those thousands goes on the right track?

Today the main measure must be the rescue of harmony with nature, which is the most important feature of Socialism, rather than the elimination of surplus value, the hegemony of private property, and the establishment of an awareness of loving relations. Harmony with nature is more important, our life goes with it, if we do not rescue harmony with nature or extinction will condemn us. Harmony can not be achieved without Socialism, it includes, supposes, all its other characteristics.

Thus, beyond the names, now in the world some say, of the adjectives most often clarifying mask, above the names are the facts, the changing relationship with nature, that is the importance Socialism Main today.

Socialism is the only hope of mankind, it is the only way to conquer the masses for change of world view, and this is a prerequisite for establishing new relationships with nature. This change of view, this possibility of new relationships is what, today, justifies the Socialism.

No society can be assumed to be a socialist without deep contrast to the rest of the world, if you keep eating, wasting gasoline, electricity, measuring progress by the number of cars, the economy by GDP and ignoring the limits of development, packed in large megalopolis.

The challenge is to find our socialism, make it practical, to astonish and guide the world. Either we do or the nature redeems your balance ... without us.

Chavez!