THE BATTLE OF STUDY

In every step of Revolution the need for study makes presence. The great Revolutionary leaders motivate education as the column of Revolution, starting with Bolivar who early understood that “an ignorant people are the blind instrument of its own destruction”, and only education could prevent people from being abused in its own credulity.

It is time and the recent events show it precisely to make study more serious and socialize the Revolutionary ideology, making people to take possession and empower in the new culture. To spread a new way of thinking, of reflection, a new method of analyses different from the trivialities that the capitalist means of cultural diffusion had installed in our psyque, different from the morale values, from the ethics that audiovisual media, cinema, soap operas, the pulpit, museums and school have imposed to us.

Why Revolution has failed in the intention of study until now?

It is important analyze the causes, only that way we could retake the path to the education of masses, the birth of a new culture.

The origin of flaws in the Revolutionary education can be found in the petit bourgeois ideology and its anarchic version, incapable of stepping up towards the construction of Socialism.

We already know that the petit bourgeoisie can not construct Socialism, the nearest it had came is to criticize capitalism. It can not overcome the means of production of private property; those are the foundations of its selfishness, and its individual get away. If it has any power it uses it, in short to create more capitalism.

Its anarchic version -with its pusillanimous rejection towards the State, every State- drives it to a wrong vision of domination and, therefore, liberation. They ignore the hegemony of the capitalist ideology, its values and culture, that way they reduce Revolution to a distorted vision of the “colonized people” by the capitalist culture. There is no a vanguard need, or an education need, “people will know what to do”… Then, why study? Who will teach who? Why direction?

Along with this absurd and pedantic opinion, they sabotage any attempt of education, of study.
But without study the Revolutionary march problems can not be solve; the mass and the leaders would not understand the tactic and strategy; they will not know how to handle irreverence and discipline, they will confuse causes with consequences. So, they are able of establish bureaucracy as objective, but they accept –without blinking- the hybrid capital-Socialism and the non-social property of means of production that origins them.

Che, in a letter to Hart in 1965, from the battle field said to him: “That is why I made a study plan for me that, I believe, can be studied and greatly improved to construct the base of a real school of thinking, we have already done a lot, but some day we will also have to think”.

With Chavez all!
Now it is time to think!

SOWING THE WIND

There is no doubt that we are in the middle of a crisis. The traditional gates do not support the political tension, the urgencies of power go beyond the established times. Or, to quote a classic writer, the consensus that had normality was cracking.

The signs are clear: the protests, with or without sense, are daily. Down, despair, misunderstanding, and confusion boil. In the direction, disturbance is noticed. Let's see.

The grouped counterrevolution in the board shows its breakdown, they are being charged by their wickedness and stupidity. They reported as if it was a funny movie, every time they speak, Emilio Lovera rejoices, they filled with material his show. Everything would be very nice, unless they leave a large part of society without leadership and made it mindless, and we know that under these conditions of brutalization, they are capable of accepting any nonsense. This lack of reasoning is a prelude to high cruelty actions and through that way in April would be a baby.

A dangerous strategy of the counterrevolution -exposed by the renegade teodoro- is to discredit the government’s democratic will. Teo speaks of the alleged intention of the government of ignoring the election results if the oligarchy wins. Thus, he baffles the counterrevolutionary social base, and takes away the hope of getting rid of Chavez by democratic ways; he shelves them for the approval of coup outputs.

If to this manipulation we add the daily military statements whispering to the FAN, sowing doubts, calling for the insubordination (let’s remember interviewing guaicaipuro, ochoa antich and rivero), the scene becomes clear: solutions outside the Constitution every day get stronger in the oligarch-bourgeois field. "The sow wind and reap whirlwind”.

Revolutionaries must be prepared for an attack like April’s:

Strengthening Chavez’s leadership, making clear that he is full and there is no obstacle that stops him to be the leader. Fighting the counterrevolution manipulations, and also the internal doubts -that are camouflaged with doctoral poses, forums and written- revive the hyper-leadership issue, which is a sly way to question Chavez.

It is essential to show the intention of the Bolivarian to defend Revolution and our Commander. We will go with the “Motherland, Socialism or Death!” inside our heart, with the chest painted red, committing to our accomplishments, our dreams and life.

We will face the intentions of sinking into the murky breakup of our country; we will never go back again to be a vile support of the imperial wasteful economies.

Finally, strengthening the organization, increasing its sense of social duty, enhancing its national vision, getting it out of the concern of the local, in that mean environment they will not understand the tasks of defending Revolution, they will be easily deceived.

If they dare, every issue would be postponed, any rift between us would be overcome, and the only important thing is to defend Revolution and Commander Chavez, which will unite us in one fury.

Without Chavez there is not Socialism, without Socialism there is no Chavez!

If you dare, you won’t be sorry!

THE EPIC CORE

If we analyze Revolutions we will find an epic core that starts them. Legend follows the exploits of this core; from here raises the strong image of the leader.

The core of the Cuban Revolution was the fighters of Moncada, the Granma and Sierra. All these events have as its main feature, being actions that generate a great fraternity, of "bonds that cannot be dissolved as any appointments".

In the Sierra, the starter nucleus lived according to the central law of Socialism: "The luck of all depends on the luck of each one, and the luck of each one depends on all". This fellowship made easy and possible to understand the path to socialist construction, it was its natural development. This explains the extraordinary strength of Cuban Socialism, which is able to exist even after the collapse of the socialist field.

The legend was the basis for creating a new culture. From there, the Cuban changed: the values were not the same, society is structured differently and the tasks and ways to face them were others. Society undertook the total change that is a Revolution.

Everything was reflected in the language, new words appeared, and the already known acquired new meaning: Guerrilla was synonymous of total commitment and action; Partner, of treatment of siblings; Command, of management; Command Post, of organization, CDR, of social network; Party, of Revolution; Fidel, of leadership; Volunteer Work, of accomplishment; Empire, of enemy; Internationalism, of building duty; Plaza of Revolution, the voice of society; Worm, a traitor.

The spirit of the starter core was socialized, it impregnated with its example to all that society.

That built its spiritual basis, a loving social integration that explains the heroic deeds of the people.

The story of the Russian Revolution is other; there the starter core did not have the fraternal coexistence: the clandestine struggle in the cities forced to live a solitary life, the vital importance of all was not direct, everyday life, the luck of one depended on the individual ability, the documents’ relations exceeded the relationships between people.

The Bolivarian Revolution is direct daughter of a great epic, the civil-military armed struggle against the pact of punto fijo. The military, like Manuel Rodriguez Ponte, Captain Manuit, Lieutenant Tulio Martinez, and Lieutenant Fleming Mendoza, and civilians as Fabrizio, Americo Silva, Argimiro, Douglas, merged their efforts for the revolutionary cause.

Unfortunately, at this stage Revolution was defeated, and it defeated itself and the behavior, the example of that core did not socialized.

On 4th February was the revival of the epic that -from Bolivar- accompanies this people. That core, that example, you socialize, the epic of 4 must permeate the entire society.

We should be proud of; it is an honor to participate in the new historical battles. The great tasks of today, the Housing Mission, the upcoming elections, should be an opportunity to merge with the epic of our history.

Without Chavez there is not Socialism, without Socialism there is no Chavez!

SCIENCE AND “LA VINOTINTO”

Once, a classical writer said that few things harm a Revolution as much as playing leftism.

Here, there are of variety of types, it is easy to identify them, they do not know where to place in the vanguard of humanity, they are happy with stridency. Some are colourful, safe; they belong to the Revolutionary folklore. Others, however -acting as leaders- are extremely harmful, they show erratic directions. Some spew absurd measurements. Let's see.

Our responsible for the scientific direction pose a wrong thesis that leads us towards the scientific illiteracy, they expose a senseless antagonism between science and "neighbourhood knowledge", thus depriving society from the scientific knowledge.

They move the path directly to failure; it is the same ideological argumentation that has drilled the political education efforts of the people. There will not be more achievement than ignorance.

The Minister in charged declares:

"The scientific development in our country has taken a quantitative and qualitative jump, even more during times of Independence."

Simultaneously, he affirms that: "... now the popular science it fostered, which is able to put smiles on the people and remove the cap and gown, and feel humble, getting out of that sphere to exchange with ancient cultures."

But he assimilates all this only to financing, he does not show any new findings, and he does not report new discoveries, or journal creations or formation of new top scientists, everything is rhetoric.

This issue is vital for Revolution; we can say that without the scientific progress, without frontier science, Socialism will not be possible, neither independence. The empire knows that, and it steals the brains, so it murders the Iranian nuclear scientists. And we –gullible- do the work for free, we divest of everything in this vital field.

Countries that have tried Revolution have prestige science, that one that we now call disdainfully the science of "white coat" of "cap and gown”. In the Soviet Union and Cuba, they raised science to levels of frontier, there are hundreds of high research centres; the Scientific Pole of Havana is an example. Revolution has a gap in this field.

Only from these centres we can socialize the scientific knowledge, enhance the capacity of understanding of the people and get rid of the scientific illiteracy.

Antagonism between popular and science is wrong, the poor, the excluded were also stripped from science. What we have to do is give to them the opportunity for a better education, to those talents from the dispossessed people.

Revolution must face science differently. It is necessary respect the acquisition of knowledge, as an extraordinary effort - never spontaneous- that takes years of dedication. We must give prestige to our scientists, as well as “La Vinotinto”. The heroes are a reflection of their country’s soul.

The attitude of demonizing science is childish; it hurts us all, we should be proud of the achievements of science, and form scientific centres and enhancing the few existing.

Without Chavez there is not Socialism, without Socialism there is no Chavez!

THE TIME WE LIVE IN

Revolutionary politics should be around reality, nourishing from it, while it catalyzes the bigger changes.

To go only to the rhythm of reality is opportunism, and that does not change anything; it is to act as a weathervane carried by the breath of surveys.

Creating fictional worlds -pregnant of wishes and away from the signs of life- is at best, naive, and as respectable as useless.

Revolutions are a bold fight against the past of millennia, they need an accurate reading of reality, their signs, to know the enemy and know themselves. Only then, they can feed from times and "change everything that must be changed”. Let us proceed.

Here is an obvious turbulence in the political field: the counterrevolutionary forces show their conspiracy fangs. Everyday the whispers of military take up a privileged position in the press, the construction of a "transition" which is the new name of the coup; it is a task that they accomplish anxiously. As an example, three buttons.

First, guaicaipuro lameda’s statements:

... "General lameda does not lose sight of the country's situation and life inside the barracks. Through this analysis, he states that "the anxiety that exists in the country because of the President's health is also felt in the Armed Forces, which is a replica of the country. The anxiety in the Armed Forces and the military commands because of the political situation, the country's future and health of Chavez, whether he is going to govern or not, can generate conspiracies."

This would not be possible if it was not that clear. With the assurances of the case, it slides the call to for the strike.

Let us remember that this general -with the ineffable pablo medina- actively participated in April’s coup.

Second, the statements of general rivero that appeared in news paper “El Nacional” last 31. Rivero and his interviewer–subtly- spread the pro-coup thinking. They talk about a "invading force" and the need to get rid of Chavez, his trial and conviction.

Third, the Association of Rectors publishes -the same Sunday in the same newspaper- a call on behalf of the "democratic universities" which is a provocative and explicit call to build a project that sustains the coup. That would be the contribution of the oligarch intellectuals.

The endogenous take advantage and pull to the weak centre: they slip through any crack in order to blur Revolution and make it a hybrid social-capitalist that -necessarily- ends up in unbridled capitalism, the only that exists: greedy, inhuman and predator life.

In the way that the use of red moderates, they see weakness. They take the most to put the National Liberation thesis, which opens the door to the lackey bourgeoisie. And they renovate the questioning about hyper- leadership.

To “La Vinotinto” -a sport’s issue- try to endorse it with a political and economical coexistence that only occurs in their fictions.

The signs of reality are clear: Socialism and Revolution are besieged to weaken it and give it a snatch. It is the duty of Revolutionaries to defend them, first of all by winning the ideological battle.

Without Chavez there is not Socialism, without Socialism there is no Chavez!

WHAT WILL GRINGOS DO?

Political analysis differs from sports commentary, it does no have major consequences, and lightweight predictions can be disclosed. In contrast, political analysis deserves great responsibility; there guessing is difficult and useless.

Then, the political analysis does not predict, it gives the elements, the possibilities, the trends. From this point of view, we will study the possible position of gringos in this situation that we face.

It is known that gringos have the need to control the Venezuelan oil and, to a greater extent, they have the urgency of the failure of the Bolivarian Revolution; and the example does not spread. We infer that they do everything possible to oust Chavez, and cut Revolution. That is their strategic objective.

The gringo plan that appears on the scene is the defeat of Chavez in the 2012 elections; so, they get their lackey candidates prepared: their primary elections are a tournament to see who folds over the cervix, and who delivers more and drags with better expertise.

But we know that in politics, what it seems rarely is. We can say that the Yankees -always astute- have a violent underhanded plan, waiting for the moment; the threats from their Congress betray them.

Now with Chavez's disease, his stay in Cuba and his remarkable recovery, the scenery change for them. Presumably, that within the uncertainty, they are preparing a response, possibly an ultimatum: armistice, or a bloody aggression, they have tried it before. Any agreement or armistice means to undermine Revolution and clear the way to the cruelest fascism.

Monteverde and Miranda are around the Venezuelan politics, but we can say hopefully, that the indomitable spirit of Bolívar –that grows during difficulties- also joins us.

Whatever the orders of the gringos are, the combat readiness of the Bolivarian is one: to unite around Chavez, and disregard completely towards the possibilities of a pact, progressing on the construction tasks, the organization and the socialist ideas.

To recognize that we are in a situation of political emergency, of war, is to face fourth generation warfare. All State institutions -from mayors to Miraflores, passing by the party, the Assembly- should declare this emergency. Nobody sleeps believing in good oligarchs intentions.

The humble people, “chavista” should be alerted, and mobilized; these are times to sleep with one eye opened. The Bolivarian propaganda apparatus should whet the ad campaign, preparing for an attack that is the best way to avoid it. When the imperial enemy feels resistance it moves forward relentlessly. Now, when it knows a valiant people, willing to do anything to defend its dreams and the Commander that embodies it, the enemy stops his intentions.

A new phase of the Revolution has begun; in this we will live and win too. We will build the Socialist Homeland, and that will be our life. Chavez leads us, and the people respond to his call. It is up to us to give a favourable direction to circumstances.

The worst thing we can do – and it would be a naïveté- to think that the game’s rules still apply, that the footmen will wait until 2012 and let the situation go.

With Chavez more than ever!

DEFENSE OF REVOLUTION

We have seen the plight of humanity, we know the cause of the disease, and the discomfort does not need verification. The question is: What should revolutionaries do?, what is their responsibility?

The first duty for the Bolivarian is to preserve Revolution, its existence. Another question arises: how?

A Revolution is preserved by progressing; always being Revolution, never stopping it, the stillness is deadly. But, a Revolution cannot go beyond the ideology that supports it: if the general foundations of its ideology are weak, then Revolution fades into thousands of harmless flashes, like sparklers.

Hence, it is necessary to go deeper to the premises underlying our ideology, to subject them under the scrutiny of sincerity, only adjusting these theoretical pillars we will shield Revolution, and make it invincible.

Without the courage to do this review, it will be impossible to bring to fruition, we will miss in the gymnastics of banal arguments and we will be swept by reality, by the hurricane that is coming. Here are some points that merit discussion.

The Revolution must rescue the love for the acquisition of knowledge, the reflection, the thought, defeating the fables “adecas” and social democrat, that ignorance is a virtue, and that we were born learned by the grace; Revolution must defeat the strange paradox that the sum of ignorance is elevated knowledge.

It is necessary to return to the seriousness of the study, and examine why the efforts to boost the prestige of knowledge has been lost. We anticipate that it will not be possible to study seriously until it is not understand the importance of universal knowledge, and be aware that the so-called "knowledge" is not spontaneous, it requires effort, and systematize it, relating it to the universal knowledge of millennia of accumulation, applying methods, listening carefully to those who have studied with the same respect that we hear the doctor when we are sick, or when we confer the pilot -that is flying the plane- the consent of guide us.

Revolution can only be the daughter of Study, Culture, and the effort to learn, to understand.

Let us remember that the "good living" is impossible to be a purely material matter, a matter of "knife and fork”. No, it is -above all- a spiritual project, hence the importance of knowledge, culture, of that which incorporates the local to the universal, it is the only way that something acquires a human value.

We must study the mechanisms of domination, those that has managed to make the dominated its main support and diffuser of its culture. To discard the theory that postulates that, the people spontaneously will get his releasing, and will found a new world. This approach disarms the people; it condemns it to the bondage of the cocky ignorance.

Instead, the people create its art, and this leads it to the path of redemption. And within that desire, art and people fuse, that is the essence of the Revolution.

There are economic, organizational and ethical assumptions, all must be discussed, and only like this we will understand the problems of today.

With Chavez more than ever!