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!