THE PLOUGH AND THE SEA

The Liberator, at some point in his life, realized that something was missing, the dream was unconcluded, practice did not had the desired end, reality had not changed, or it had changed towards the mistake, the expected benefits were not gotten, practice was not enough and a thousand of victorious battles failed to change the world.

We know little of his deliberations in those sad days when he emerged defeated and even used by an oligarchy that reproduced the essence of the old. However, his last words overlook the anguish of his mornings:

He exclaimed, "I have ploughed the sea!" The plough, the practice could not change reality, the sea. Something was missing, it was not for the lack of courage, dedication or effort offered up to the Motherland ... What had gone wrong? Why, why..?

He denounced "they abused of your credulity". He attributed the conduct of the glorious people, liberator of a thousand battles, of all the sacrifices, the conqueror of adversity, to the manipulation of the oligarchies, and finishes off by saying: ... "They trod what I hold most sacred, my reputation and my love for freedom”.

The Liberator’s work was unfinished, Marti says: "...what he left undone, nowadays is still undone: because Bolivar still has to do in America".

The wait is over. They returned to the days of Independence, in San Pedro Alejandrino the dream was not buried. Now we have elements, we know how to "Plough the sea and be successful".

We know that the practice (plowing) with which we want to change reality (the sea) should be guided by theory, the connection that gives meaning to practice. Modification of reality cannot go beyond the theory that supports the practice.

The Liberator went as far as theory of that time and the conditions of a colony allowed him. The ideology was born of the French Revolution, which had as a limit the goals of the bourgeoisie, which quickly became conservative, crushing the Haitian Rebellion, exploiting the European workers and colonizing the world. The Liberator prophesied the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie that was building a new domination, he concluded: "the United States seems destined by providence to plague America with shame in the name of freedom”.

Bolivar still lives among us, he dreamed beyond his time, with his spirit passed through the centuries, he was a leader of the future, his thought is valid, and his goals are the goals of today.

Now we have the theory to overcome the bourgeois revolution, we can go where Bolivar wanted; we can conquer the greatest happiness, we can finish with men-merchandise, we can found a new world. We have a theory that guides practice. Humanity in two hundred years has brought forth the ideas that guide the plough. We know what to do; we have new weapons and we know the jagged weapons. There are no excuses, this time San Pedro Alejandrino will not be repeated, we will sow at sea, and we will make Revolution.

Chavistas!