THE GREAT WEAPON

Revolution’s main weapon is the theory, ideology and subjectivity. The great revolutionaries have seen it, the Liberator told us: "morality and enlightenment are our primary needs", "an ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction". Marti talked us about the trenches of ideas.

We say that a Revolution can only be defeated if it is defeated earlier within the ideas, within ideologies. The main battle occurs in the world of ideas.

Those who undertake the revolutionary path should be aware that everything will elucidate, ultimately, the world of thinking. There is where the course of revolution is decided. Let’s never forget, as Gramsci believed, that the most powerful of the objective forces of human civilization is subjectivity.

With the gained experience by the world’s revolution, we know that Revolutions in power get to a point where they lose the excitement that unite their masses; the passion that ignited the fire in the early days of the revolutionary commotion gave way to the paralysis of habit, to the bureaucratic needs. Mobilizations can be massive but soulless, with no creativity; numbers can be high, but they do not reflect the loss of spiritual energy. And that does not belong to society.

The sad spectacle of the fall of the Soviet Union and China illustrates this. They did it with no shame or glory. Today, the tangled sophisms that put forward to dress of Socialism to these kings are pathetic, and we know they are the most naked of capitalisms.

We face a limit within the course of the World’s Revolution: As it moves away from the nucleus that originated it, from the events and its primitive actors, they are worn down until restoration.

Why? Where is the flaw? How to avoid it?

According to the experience of the world’s revolution, somewhere the way was missed, and that mistake was, as we now know, in theory. Measures that stimulated selfishness were justified, economic forms that supported that spirituality were created.

We add that the system of needs was not enough changed, the vision of the world was not able to replace and the Awareness of Social Duty could not be render sacred, which is the spiritual foundation of Socialism.

The issue deserves reflection and critique, consider the signs of reality, transforming them into a theory that guides and gives meaning to practice. Theory without practice is as bad as practice without theory.

We must create and discover the theoretical weapons that reinforce Revolution. We can do it, there is already a world’s revolutionary experience, now it is essential to thorough study and criticism, irreverent and loyal. We can not make the mistakes of past revolutions, always go forward and be more and more socialists, let’s not make concessions, "not even this little” to capitalism.

Let’s follow the mandate of the greats, study, ideas, they must guide the practice and this has value as it transformes the world.

Chavistas!