DEFENSE OF REVOLUTION

We have seen the plight of humanity, we know the cause of the disease, and the discomfort does not need verification. The question is: What should revolutionaries do?, what is their responsibility?

The first duty for the Bolivarian is to preserve Revolution, its existence. Another question arises: how?

A Revolution is preserved by progressing; always being Revolution, never stopping it, the stillness is deadly. But, a Revolution cannot go beyond the ideology that supports it: if the general foundations of its ideology are weak, then Revolution fades into thousands of harmless flashes, like sparklers.

Hence, it is necessary to go deeper to the premises underlying our ideology, to subject them under the scrutiny of sincerity, only adjusting these theoretical pillars we will shield Revolution, and make it invincible.

Without the courage to do this review, it will be impossible to bring to fruition, we will miss in the gymnastics of banal arguments and we will be swept by reality, by the hurricane that is coming. Here are some points that merit discussion.

The Revolution must rescue the love for the acquisition of knowledge, the reflection, the thought, defeating the fables “adecas” and social democrat, that ignorance is a virtue, and that we were born learned by the grace; Revolution must defeat the strange paradox that the sum of ignorance is elevated knowledge.

It is necessary to return to the seriousness of the study, and examine why the efforts to boost the prestige of knowledge has been lost. We anticipate that it will not be possible to study seriously until it is not understand the importance of universal knowledge, and be aware that the so-called "knowledge" is not spontaneous, it requires effort, and systematize it, relating it to the universal knowledge of millennia of accumulation, applying methods, listening carefully to those who have studied with the same respect that we hear the doctor when we are sick, or when we confer the pilot -that is flying the plane- the consent of guide us.

Revolution can only be the daughter of Study, Culture, and the effort to learn, to understand.

Let us remember that the "good living" is impossible to be a purely material matter, a matter of "knife and fork”. No, it is -above all- a spiritual project, hence the importance of knowledge, culture, of that which incorporates the local to the universal, it is the only way that something acquires a human value.

We must study the mechanisms of domination, those that has managed to make the dominated its main support and diffuser of its culture. To discard the theory that postulates that, the people spontaneously will get his releasing, and will found a new world. This approach disarms the people; it condemns it to the bondage of the cocky ignorance.

Instead, the people create its art, and this leads it to the path of redemption. And within that desire, art and people fuse, that is the essence of the Revolution.

There are economic, organizational and ethical assumptions, all must be discussed, and only like this we will understand the problems of today.

With Chavez more than ever!