IGNORANCE

It is often to confuse Revolution with mercy and pity with folkloric sentimentality. During the “fourth republic”, it was often to rise to fame the gifted humble in science or art, but the opportunity to educate them was denied, as well as to know the boundaries that, in their field, humanity had reached.

They were kept like zoo animals; there were attempts to keep them as wild animals, naive. Thus, intelligence without cultivation -which struggled to make a leap releasing itself from the prison of ignorance-, was the astonishment of the petit bourgeois. That was the attraction, that way they calmed their desire for Revolution; they bathed of poor people and folklore.

That attitude was the continuity of the attitude sown by the social democracy, which made of ignorance a virtue; of illiteracy, a quality; of study, a waste; of books, a defect. They kept the pride population in their ignorance. It was a perfect mechanism of domination.

Bolivar caught earlier that ignorance was an effective instrument of domination, and understood that "Moral y Enlightenment were our primary needs". Other great men realized that the only way to be free was to be educated. Simon Rodriguez gave his life to the task of educating.

Ignorance has several ways to present itself: it may be lack of knowledge, that is the most common; but it can also be the poisoning with fake knowledge, and that is the most modern. This fake knowledge, fake values, are implanted in the collective mind of the powerful “media” of deformation. Movies and soap operas create a fiction that replaces reality, even the press has become a "reality show", this genre where reality and fiction are mixed and simulate each other. So we live in a world where owners manipulated at will.

The other ignorance is the smug ignorance, perhaps the most powerful because it can defeat projects that promise Revolution, it is to believe that one already knows, and think that, spontaneously, one has sufficient knowledge, thus it is necessary to study. That kind of pride feeds ignorance and perpetuates it.

Socialism, which is the most important cultural leap that humanity can perform -must- and have to mean a huge leap in knowledge, study, thought, rigor. Socialism is impossible in ignorance; our main task is to defeat it.

We have neglected the revolutionary education; we have shelved motors and brochures. In culture, we deprive ourselves of acting actively, we only repeat; we do not anything that differentiates us from the oligarchy.

The pursuit of material achievements -that are justified- must be accompanied by large spiritual achievements, and those will give be the ones that justify Socialism. Socialism is justified if the soul of men changes, if a new man is built, and that is achieved with culture, true knowledge, and new values.

It is necessary that Revolution gives prestige to study, knowledge, and the intellectual activity, defeating the cult of ignorance that we dragged from oligarchy.

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