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.

With Chavez more than ever!