WE WILL WAIT HERE FOR YOU

The imperial monster advances on Revolution, every day it gives a step towards this goal, it is clear that its jugular circumstances imposed to Chavez. The drums announcing the executioners’ dance can be heard nearly, the same heard in Libya or Iraq; the same macabre melody that covered Chile in September, and echoed here in April.

We must be alert; the monster does not take a step without effect. Everything it does is part of a well planned coup. The campaign to exacerbate the problem of violence, the fraudulent offers from “mud” to end insecurity caused by the capitalist system that they defend are an infamous piece of their plan.

It is with this vision that we must consider the incorporation of General Cliver Alcalá, Deputy Freddy Bernal, the former president of Parlatino Amilcar Figueroa, and the intelligence officer Ramon Madriz, to the list of "drug dealers" from the gringo state's department, led by hillary-the dark. In addition, she accuses them of having links with FARC, an insurgent movement against the bloody “santanderiana” oligarchy, who is also qualified of drug traffickers and terrorists.

The measure has two impacts:

One, there in the guts of the beast, they sensitize their hypnotized public opinion, building us an image of outlaw and dangerous government to the safety of gringos, thereby they would accept and even require an intervention against Revolution.

The other impact is internal, it is to demonstrate that its power transcends borders, which can punish whomever they want anywhere in the world, so they try to moralize their lackeys and, above all, to provide them security to the pro-coup leaders and their hacks, they will appear writing and underpinning the media manipulations.

In the coming months, it would be decided where Venezuelans want their government to be, whether in Washington or Caracas, if we will be ruled by a patriot like Chavez or unpatriotic fool from “mud”. That is today’s political situation. We are at war with the international capitalist monster, it already has its military outpost here, and “mud” is a command of that army capitalist world that imposes bloodily its will on the planet. They form rows with the empire and attack our motherland, that is, Socialism; the only way to have motherland. With capitalism there can only be submission.

They come to subjugate, they bring into their hands the rusty chains that Revolution put down and throw to the sea, following the mandates of the sacred hymn. It is selfishness which raises the voices again.

They were wrong! They mess with the people of Liberators! Here we will wait for them with the patriotic bravely that leads “el Paso de Los Andes” to liberate half a continent. Here they will not apply the cowardly bombing in the morning and have lunch quietly in New York or Paris. If they touch us, the whole continent will burn with the fire of dignity, there will be no peace for the invaders and their lackeys.

Only with Chavez and Socialism there is motherland!

THE CROUCHED CAPITALISM

Revolutions –crouched and at the bottom- carry the seeds of its destruction. That enemy, that goes unnoticed, is very dangerous. In contrast, the oligarchy is clear, easily recognizable, and that gives it a disadvantage in the struggle.

Thus, it is important to understand the "modus operandi" of the crouched enemy. Let's see.

Every Revolution and more if it is peaceful, is inhabited by the past: customs and logic resist die, and strive to defeat the socialist possibilities. The political expression of this past is reformism; its class support is the petit bourgeois ideology.

The past within Revolution cannot act openly; it would be easily detected and its work would be canceled, so it covers propositions with Socialist discourse that undermine progress.

The crouched supporters of the old are defenders of capitalism; that is their greatest weakness; they defend what is exhausted, and what is unable to solve the lacks of humanity, the problems created by them.

They are fair in their political actions, balanced, they have no excesses, they have great restraint, little debauchery, they are always calling to reflection, they offer general comment that any side would support, and e.g. who may disagree when ending poverty or improving education? They never say how they will achieve their proposals; by doing it would be exposed their capitalist character, the inability to solve something.

They expect the crisis, real or fictitious, it is there where deploy their strategy; in times of difficulty they shout that we must make alliance with capitalism and slide towards the political centre, and build a hybrid. On behalf of an alleged productivity, they justify the alliance.

When Revolution runs to the centre, it loses its economic and political boundaries, it opens the way to the kiss of Judas, and there is no limit for the enemy. They build bridges; the battle between two systems gives place to the coexistence between the plundered and the appropriate: "now we all are one", "working for the common good". Generalities justify the union, the question of how to realize the promises is considered impertinent, typical of extremists; the infamous magic that transformed the capitalist into ally is modernity.

Reformists’ accomplices are the renegades, these we know; now they speak with the same fury with which they –yesterday- defended the opposite. The renegades are discovered contraband that is the fate of reformers when Revolution is successful, to each disclaims the move forward.

The struggle against reformism is not easy; it is about an expert enemy who managed to defeat Socialism in countries like China, Chile and USSR. It can be only defeated from strong trenches of ideas, theoretical rigor is the best weapon of Revolution. It is vital to understand the essence of Socialism, let’s ballasting of the ideological pyrotechnics that qualifies from coffee to the avenue that opened yesterday. It is imperative to equip Socialism of a solid definition, and to specify the characteristics that determine it and differentiate it from the fakes. That is the only way to defeat the inner enemy. Let’s paraphrase the Liberator: "Moral and Socialist Enlightenment, are our first needs”.

With Chavez all!

HOW MUCH FITS IN TRANSITION?

There are some concepts that due to misuse become a kind of wildcard, useful to get out of any theoretical or practical difficulty. One of these concepts is "to invent or to err", another is "under construction". With these "wild cards", we have slipped many fables and avoided the rigor of study and thought.

However, there is a wild card that beats them all: "transition". This wild card has the scent of theoretical depth, it is released and Gramsci's quote comes back, so this way the stage is decorated to support any atrocity.

Thus, the alliance with capitalism is justified by the "transition”. Encouraging capitalist enterprises is the "transition." No changes are made, "transition". The best possible wildcard is used, and as a magic wand, it explains everything. In the "transition" fits all. The perverse use of the concept brings a problem and a demand.

Transition exists, it is necessary, the reality imposes it. The difficulty is to distinguish the real transition from the evading transition, and how we identify it? How we move within it? Let's see.

Transition is the area where, as Gramsci said: "The old does not stop dying and the new does not stop to be born", and he adds that there are moments of light and shade where monsters can be reborn. We infer that transition is not a comfort zone, where whatever we do, fits well. No! On the contrary, it is a territory of fierce class struggle, of deep ideological struggle.

Thus, theoretical preparation and the study of reality are indispensable to the revolutionary success within transition. In other words, the Revolutionary transition can be defeated.

From all this arises few questions that guide us: how do we know whether the transition is good? What is the goal? Where do we go?

First of all, is to understand that transition is a violent clash of tendencies.

The counterrevolution, in all its versions, fights to impose its logic, its values, and its political and economic principles; Revolution battles to overcome the culture of capitalism, of the counterrevolution.

There is the measure of how right the path towards Revolution is. If the measures that we take benefit us, encourage the values of the old, we are going in a wrong way, and however, if those benefit the ethics and the culture of Socialism, we are good.

Hence, to successfully navigate through the transition, it is essential to know where we are going, what is the purpose of Revolution. The task is not easy, several responses showed the fierce inner struggle.

Reformers do not have clear answers to these questions; they prefer to take refuge in the wild cards, to impute the imprecision of "transition", biting their tail, and diluting themselves in generalities.

The confusion of goals helps oligarchy; the spontaneity always ends up playing the old. We, Revolutionaries must establish clearly the objective, and only that way the path will acquire meaning, it may be evaluated and corrected, and only then we can we think of the triumph over the counterrevolutionary tendency.

Without Chavez there is no Socialism, there is no Socialism without Chavez!

ROTTEN

The rotten part of the Venezuelan politics is run by the gringo embassy. The Yankee diplomatic cables confirm this. It is not just maria corina machado zuloaga -an evident agent- others came along and we must think that the board is riddle with this kind of unpatriotic persons. The putrefaction reaches our borders: only yesterday, today’s accused take positions within the revolutionary camp.

The fact warns in two directions. One, we must be aware of the work of foreign intelligence services, not just gringos, but also from other countries, especially Spain, because of its cultural bonds, it has more opportunities to camouflage. Presumably, they have a recruitment policy that gives those results; let us remember the fine intelligence work to assassinate Che.

The other warning is that we cannot fall into witch hunting; we cannot start a sort of mistrust of everyone and everything. That attitude would work for the enemy, and it would be exalted by the intelligence services.

The question that arises is: how to fight the enemy infiltration?

The answer has two edges: one, the work of the intelligence corps, we have to be confidents that they are doing their work and have the ability to improve.

The other edge, more importantly, is the ideological definition, indispensable, although some people describe it as sectarianism.

Ideology is an extraordinary barrier against infiltrators, because it is self-control against opportunism, it becomes evident in front of it. It is not infallible, but it is an indication, it turns on the alarms. Let us think that before crossing the gates of the embassy, the lacey crossed the thresholds of pragmatic capitalist ideology, which allows him to assassinate the Motherland.

A moment's reflection, we will realize that furtive visitors to the embassy have a common ideology: they are opportunists, always show signs of that, and let’s remember ismael’s shouts for carlos andres in a pro-Chavez event.

Other visitors that go to the embassy are the defenders of capitalist property, or renegades to the availability of the foreign intelligence; as teodoro, who now poses as the leftist of “mud”, they use him the pink touch to the candidates; we already know why he called "dreadful gorilla" to the gringo Senator, but he does not dare with the system that hatched her.

The ideological definition is the most important defense against infiltrators: it gives it deepness to the work of the intelligence corps. The ideological definition has the virtue of being a barrier to these infiltrators; they act in territories of ambiguity, and crash against definitions. A clear revolution in its principles diminishes its maneuver ability, it ties them up.

This appearance of traitors in the gringo embassy should be to raise awareness that we are in a war against the empire, which is not story or electoral maneuver, this is the defense of Motherland: we defend it or we leave it to these confirmed unpatriotic persons.

Only along with Chavez and Socialism there is Motherland!

IDEOLOGY OF VANGUARD

Let’s recall that the forms of property, consciousness, and ideas are not independent, they form a group which influence each other. We know that, in opposition to the classical writer’s postulates, revolutions have happened in countries of low development of productive forces, low proletariat. This raises a question: how was possible for countries with low development make Revolution? What is the teaching? How to apply it? Let's see.

Realizing the revolutionary possibility in a country with little development of productive forces, and little proletariat, immediately it is evident the contradiction between ideologies that emerge from that situation and the ideological developments of the World Revolution.

If Revolution is captured by the same ideologies of that precarious level of development of productive forces, then it will dilute it into political conservative forms, late, at the most bourgeois; it will not make the historical leap. Such was the case after perez jimenez’s fall: at that time the ideology village -that guided us- could not break the logic of domination.

Now, if Revolution is led by the ideology of vanguard, by the most advanced at that time, then the logic of domination can be broken. Such was the case of the Revolution of Independence: the liberators assimilated the theory of the French Revolution, the Bourgeois Revolution, although here there was no a developed bourgeoisie. So, they could defeat the ideologies that revolved around the monarchical rule, as proposed by the Protection of the Rights Board of Fernando VII.
The Cuban Revolution is an extraordinary example: there they knew how to make a revolution from the field, but leaded by the most advanced ideology of the time. Thus, they got to rise above their circumstances.

The teaching is clear for us: it is necessary to rise above the ideologies emanating from our lack of material development, and overcome the ideologies that feed off our condition of a country that lives off the incomes, and rely on the most advanced universal revolutionary thought, the thought of the Cuban Revolution, Che’s, and Fidel’s.

It is essential that the Social Property of means of production is administered by the State in order to keep them social. And it is urgent to elevate excessively the Social Duty Awareness, and bring the economic forms and the Social Duty Awareness to excess. Only then with excess worlds are founded.

If we fall as prey to the same ideologies of our condition of a country that lives off the incomes, if we yield to the logic -installed by centuries- of political patronage, and if we find the revolutionary in "collective selfish" outputs, non-socials, we will be at the very best, distributing income more equitably, but not founding a new society. And so, at the less adverse wind, everything will make us collapse. The selfish collective (non-socials) forms will be, necessarily, against the Revolutionary Government, and at the end we will realize that we walk in a circle, and we let slip the opportunity to realize the miracle.

With Chavez all!

SUCCESS SMILES TO PREPARATION

It is unanimous the perception of the crisis, the statements of the sides show that the struggle for power gets sharp, all sectors of the country participate in the discussion, from the military to drivers, this is a clear sign of crisis.

Despite what carlos blanco says, the crisis is a great opportunity to advance. We can say that crises are necessary stations for the advance of Revolution and –simultaneously- are of high risk of restoration. The triumph is not mechanical; it will depend on the intelligence, organization and consciousness that reach the revolutionary forces. Success smiles to preparation.

It is necessary to prepare Revolution for the coming stage, where the rules of the game, necessarily, will change: before, preparation, the electoral machinery, propaganda, the "jingles", the stands from the red party, banners were first. Now the conscious mobilization of the acting majority become priority, the clarity of the lines of command is vital, discipline and, above all, the clarity of ideas, definition of goals.

The party must be electoral machinery, but also an organization capable of acting strongly in situations of social turmoil. The structure must be lubricated in such way that it can operate even in extreme conditions, so the indications given by the direction reach expedite the last corner of the nation.

Simultaneously, every structure, every activist must be ready to act in isolation, knowing the spirit of the party so much that they can reproduce it without indications. Recalling that guideline of the classic writers: "a revolutionary, even under conditions of total isolation, is capable of acting as a revolutionary, to become in his own commander, in his own army".

It would be desirable to alert the people and the party’s members, explaining the intentions from the empire and the national lackeys –which are out from the rules of the electoral game, everyone have to be clear of what is now decided, we have to shield from deception.

It would be convenient and it is time to train emergency agencies that are able to analyze the new situation and its quick changes, to know the enemy and us. The positive surveys are not enough, the expressions of affection for the Commander; it is necessary to "organize love."

The merger with the people should be deepened, that is the guarantee of preserving the operational ability of Revolution.

Revolutionary ideology is the main pillar of preparation face the crisis. It is urgent, indispensable, a great excitement around study, and the ideological discussion. The study should be essential in the life of the people, knowing what the goal, what the intentions are; the motives of Revolution will make us invincible.

The Revolution must defend and prepare to move forward, leading the people in resistance to the oligarch offensive that shows on the horizon.

The cards are released, success will favour the cautious. The warned war only defeats the careless.


Without Chavez there is no Socialism, without Socialism there is no Chavez!

THE FORGOTTEN CHE

In “Rebelión” we read the article "From development to the economic politic of decrease" by Jesse Chacón. This article is a good omen, Revolution is thinking seriously, and it searches –rigorously- for the path. Let's see.

Jesse says: "In 2006, The Bolivarian Revolution started an intense political, economic and social process to deconstruct of the capitalist relations and undock from the global yoke of capital in the construction of the national course; however, we have not warned that the central node of the capitalist reproduction is the philosophy of growth and development, which we revere every day. The focus of capitalist reproduction is in the development as a race to make growth unlimited and make consumption in a limited economic and environmental context”.

The problem of the Revolution is clearly stated: the limited economic and environmental context does not allow unlimited growth What to do? Chacon reflects and answers:

How do we protect ourselves?, How to keep up on our ascendant route to overcome poverty and improve the quality of life of our people?, We are sure that the answer is the classic neo-liberal formula to reduce public spending and download on the shoulders of the people the crisis created by capitalists.

Our alternative is to set up (...) a new focus not centre on growth but on the decline. The decrease relates to an economic and environmental perspective -that estimates that the weather crisis and the structural crisis of capitalism- can only be overcome from the left, just if the productive development model is abandoned, its cult of growth for growth without considering the limits, and the overvaluation of the energy pattern as the current technical-scientific.

...It means to understand that we are approaching a limit of historical moment where the key elements for our survival and reproduction as a society are energy, food and water, and the classic goals: the industrial and financial goals.

... The construction of a path of endogenous development, articulated with Latin America and respectful of the environment would be our antidote against the impending collapse of the global capitalist financial model.

So, Jesse is flying high in his reflections, he says the main problem of Revolution, he does not go into political padding. We congratulate him, to Revolution the time to deep thinking has come.

Now, Jesse deals with the crisis just from the material side, which is one side of this necessary debate -very important- but it is just one edge, and not the most important.

It is necessary to reflect on the spiritual side, education of an awareness of the mass that prepares it to accept and promote the necessary material changes. Without that awareness, whatever we think to confront the crisis would be futile, we would not even be able to save electricity, and stop wasting gas.

It is there where the teachings of Che are essential: the New Man, the primacy of moral incentives over material, Voluntary Work, the Awareness of Duty Social C, and above all, his example. Now more than ever, it is necessary to study Che.

Without Chavez there is no Socialism, there is no Socialism without Chavez!