THE SOCIAL COMPENSATION

Capitalism produced a huge social debt, it plunged society into the material and spiritual misery: hunger, exclusion from all the benefits and from opportunities that covered the majorities.

Socialism must pay that debt; it is a duty and a necessity. However, it is impossible to pay the social debt only materially, it is indispensable or risk that everything will collapse, building new relationships -now loving- between these men along with nature, building a new world where there is no appropriation of another's work, as Marti said: "everyone fight for the benefit of all".

Everyone for the benefit of all, which is a great summary of what Socialism is. But, how do we implement it? What are the main points governing its construction?

The classic writers left us the pillar of theory, which is indispensable for the construction of Socialism: "From each one according to his/her ability, to each one according to his/her needs". This precept has its roots within the early Christianity, the one that Christ left us in his sermons, in community life.

The Bolivarian Revolution on its road towards Socialism must adapt to its reality to the universal Socialist theory, which is the result of centuries of human struggles to free from the selfish monster that it created himself.

Revolution must start from reality of rentier country, with distortions in our economy and our social behavior, where richness comes from the income instead of coming from work. Politics in these hundred years of oil revenues has been marked by this situation. The oil compensation, the distribution of income, ranks the governments: "who distributes more is better". During prosperity the government is sympathetic; when the incomes are low the government is struggling.

The leftovers of oil incomes gave stability to the governments, the people drugged of consumerism were sinking in the spiritual and material misery. Patronage was the opium of the people, the gifts muffled any protest.

This material and spiritual structure must be demolished, it is necessary to remedy the material lacks, and especially to replace the spirituality that used to hold that evil shell. This is where the theoretical pillar of Socialism becomes important. Let's see.

By giving each one according to his/her needs, a house, access to health, education, etc.., we are compensating for the social debt within the material.

By demanding each one according to his/her ability, giving back what it was received, compensating for society the benefit that this gives to it, we are creating social awareness, creating the Awareness of Social Duty.

Any benefit for society -through the State- given for the individual must be compensated with work, according to its capacity. The benefits that society gives are not an economic transaction; it is an exchange of affection and love.

Chavez is Peace!