COURAGE AND HISTORICAL MOMENT

Having a sense of the historical moment -as Fidel said in his concept of Revolution- requires intelligence to grasp it and a great courage to act likewise, changing it, driving it; that is the essence that the revolutionary leaders are made off, that differentiates them from faded politicians that move according to how the wind blows. These do not change anything, those found worlds.

Bolivar understood his historical moment, he fed from the French Revolution, and the Haitian black rebellion; and from that understanding, he had the courage to break with himself, with his “Mantuano” social class; as Fidel said, changing whatever it needs to be changed. Bolivar fought for independence and broke the stillness of three hundred years; he was the hurricane that founded a new time.

The Liberator was anti-imperialist, as corresponded in his time, he emancipated slaves, and that was the most radical economic transformation of his century, he also had a vision of the Great Motherland and we are still struggling to achieve it. Undoubtedly, Bolivar is a Revolutionary.

Fidel -that living monument of Revolution- is aware of his historical moment and the courage to plant Revolution ninety miles away from the empire, a country with minimal development of proletariat. He knew how to break dogmas and establish a Republic with economic and social awareness; today is a moral sanctuary for the revolutionaries of the planet.

With the Bolivarian Revolution and Commander Chavez, we have deeply moved forward within the transformation of Socialism. Every day, we understand that economy must be controlled by society through the revolutionary State, that control is a requisite so the human snatches to capital, the leadership of its life, so the gain stops being the centre of existence, and man and nature take their place of privilege.

We recover our self-esteem, the human condition that leaded us to be an example for the continent. Now with Commander Chavez, the people found a leader that resumes it. He has the intelligence to understand that the historical moment calls for the creation of a reference for humanity in the capitalism’s surmounting, a society that melts and expands Socialism with its example, that shows that is possible to rise from the capitalist miasma into forms of liberating organization.

He is a leader with the courage to act according to the historical moment, and able to face the empire, and capable to make the changes where something has to be changed.

There are several samples of Chavez’s revolutionary texture; right now, he faces the stature of a giant against the global capitalist empire. He is one of the few world political leaders that come out defending the hounded Kaddafi, while the world turns to other side face the genocide in that merciless bombed people, in view of that “criminal hunting!” of their legitimate ruler. Chavez fulfils us with internationalist proud when he takes position with dignity.


Without Chavez there is no Socialism, there is no Socialism without Chavez!

DEFINITIONS

Definitions are always imperfect but indispensable. We cannot talk seriously without defining the terms we use, these generally are set in advance, and they are customary.

So when we say "in the afternoon he/she visited us" most people understand what it is about. But, when communication is scientific, then the mass that uses it, defines the terms used with maximum precision. Such is the case of doctors, for them "syndrome" is a term with unambiguous meaning. The same for an engineer, the term “debutanization” does not confuse who understand this.

In politics complication is bigger: this is an activity where interests converge: culture, tradition, big and small struggles; we can say that it is the most human activity of all done by man. With it, it confuses reality with fiction, intentions with achievements; the truth is slippery, and lying is ethical, experimentation is impossible. It is the soul and territory of confrontation, material is subordinated to it, crime is an instrument, manipulation a virtue, and this often is a hindrance. Moral values ​​are changeable, history is written lecturing by the interested. Therefore, definitions are more blurring, but more necessary than any other area.

In politics, for example, calling "bastard" to a bad person can be manipulated to mean insult to an honourable lady, and thus attacking to an opponent's television show. Also "petit bourgeois" may signify an offence that annoys, when it is a technical term that indicates social relations. For that reason, it is useful to define what sense are we using the terms. Let's see.

In politics definition is clear, many times and for many people; it is not convenient, it does not allow comfortable movement, so it is branded of being dogmatic, rigid, and slightly wide.

For us, Revolutionary is defined primarily by its position face property of the means of production and consciousness. From this essence dislodges a set of characteristics, morals and ethics.

This definition is imperfect; it is a tool that let us move in the ambiguous sea of politics, it is a guide to action.

Being so, the thesis that postulate that Revolution is possible, in favour of Social Property of the means of production administered by the State, and the Consciousness of the Social Duty which intertwine within, and the integration of the fragmented society, would be revolutionary in the strict sense of the word, in the technical sense. This is the core that determines the search, the goal.

So, no one can feel offended if their theory does not fit into this definition, which is certainly not our invention, it is a decantation of the best universal revolutionary thought. Let no one be offended, you can be a good person, always on the side of the humble, but your thesis cannot be classified as Revolutionary.

Irreverence in the discussion, loyalty in action!

Without Chavez there is no Socialism, there is no Socialism without Chavez!

ELECTRICITY, THE GOOD LIVING AND THE DEVILISH CICLE

Extinction threats the species, and exclusion threads bigger majorities. This truth is borne out by scientists and the best minds on the planet. Extinction or survival is the dilemma that makes all human activity, and determinately the politics; it is where the contradiction explodes. Let's see.

Capitalism needs a rising and wasteful consumption, and that is the requirement for the accumulation of capital, to transform the stolen labor into money which condensed on goods. Hence, any activity within capitalism is subordinated to wasteful consumption. Politics is central to this culture of waste; it has as a main function to guarantee the material and spiritual conditions for the rising consumption.

However, this relationship between politics and the culture of consumption, created a devilish circle: to be elected it is necessary to promise waste, and this will lead us to extinction. The most important task of Revolution is to break this circle.

Here in Venezuela, a country that has inherited the capitalist logic, is present in this devilish circle, it has been installed for over a century of oil revenues, and it has misrepresented us the relationship between work and achievement. So, the government is measured by its ability to make the capitalist consumption possible.

Revolution expresses the quest for "the good living", a goal that deserves study. The perception of the good life depends on and determines the ideological position.

The vision of the good living that meshes with the capitalist mentality is that one that allows the highest possible consumption; satisfying the insatiable artificial needs imposed on us by capitalism. Living immersed in the world of things, and what can be bought and sold, so the wheel of capitalism keeps turning, accumulating.

This vision decrees a war of everyone against all, the individual pursuit of the good living, selfish; it necessarily produces misery and distress. For every one that can sustain the rate of consumption, there are thousands who are left out of any opportunity to satisfy even their basic needs.

The vision of the good living that corresponds to Revolution is that which, satisfying the material and spiritual needs of nature, creates the conditions for integral human development, everything in harmony with nature. It is a social search, not individual or selfish.

The devilish circle leads us to extinction in the medium term, and leads us to the exclusion in the immediate terms, so it must be broken.

Revolution -with the measures taken to regulate the consumption of electricity, to control the waste, and encourage the savings- has taken a major step towards the new culture, it is a serious and courageous attempt to break the devilish circle.

The counter-revolutionary leaders when opposing to these measures are mean. By stimulating the selfishness they walk through the path towards the extinction and exclusion, they try to get us drunk so we continue worshiping the golden calf and turning ourselves’ back to the future.

Without Chavez there is no Socialism, there is no Socialism without Chavez!

COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY INTELLECTUAL BATTALION

For the battalion (negri hacnecker, dussel, dieterich, meszaros), Chavez is its biggest challenge, it already had obtained partial success: Porto Alegre got to distract during years the revolutionary forces, and Chiapas was a faded hope in these theories’ miasma.

Chavez’s arrival ramshackle all these theories, they had to restore the speech and suit it to the new situation, "philosophizing" to prevent that the Bolivarian Revolution follows its redemption’s path.

The battalion moved here, it quickly gains followers and positions to boost its distractions. While the battle was against the pro-coup extreme right they come into effect, but in April and December, when the crisis called forward, they showed his reformist character.

When Chavez announces anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and called this Revolution of Socialist, the battalion understood that the decisive moment of battle had come. The goal was and is: how to moderate the intentions of change, how to make them harmless.

So, it opens up inside the process an internal struggle between the distraction-reformism and the deepening of Revolution.

The battalion’s propositions come up as fungus: forums and books, they underpin it. In economics, they were proposed to avoid completely the social property, from cooperatives, endogenous centers, Social Production Companies. In the social field, they influenced on fragmentation. Politically, they hindered the party’s organization. In the cultural field, they sabotaged education, preventing the outbreak that a Revolution supposes.

However, reality is stubborn and showed that the counter-revolutionary battalion’s theories do not work. Their results were meager: there was the need to move forward, the wind of the confrontation forced to take revolutionary measures, it was deepened it, and the Permissive Revolution was abbreviated.

Now the battalion's theories are more explicit, its ideological bases appear more clearly, they are sharpened. Three final elements emerge strongly.

First, Revolution is "not possible", "it is recklessness", "it is not to be in tune with reality", "it is very good but is idealistic", "the real is to adapt to a kind of social democracy", a sort of "empowering the people" but not jeopardizing the system. So, people are just concerned to resolve their life, their environment, and do not look up to society, without focusing on the system.

Second, there is the rejection of the State, it is branded as Soviet, bourgeois, and it is intended to substitute it with forms that fragment society, making it incapable of political action.

The third element is to attack the leader; they know that there is no Revolution without a leader, so the story goes. How to do it? if his reputation is so great, the answer has several edges.

Some, including dussel, equal him to the social democratic leaders from the continent. Thus, Lula, Kirchner, Tavaré are the same as Chavez. To these social democratic leaders compare them with the socialist hope of this Bolivarian Revolution. Others dust off the hyper leadership theory.

One of the most important battles of Revolution is the confrontation with this battalion’s theories, and unmasks them as counter-revolutionaries.

Without Chavez there is no Socialism, there is no Socialism without Chavez!

THEORETICAL POTIONS

The discomfort that was brewing for previous years is bursting with the fall of the Soviet Union. Then, perplexity took account of revolutionaries and the empire, and with vengeance it kicked the dead dog. In the intellectual universe -quickly- were composed the capitalist forces and they began their offensive.

The intellectual attack has two phases:

One, that we might call direct confrontation: the counter-revolutionary intellectuals -led by the intoxication of victory- declared the "end of history", beyond capitalism there would not be nothing, the most that it could be done is to perfection it.

This first stage of frontal collision was contradicted by reality: poverty and the disenchantment of the masses produces riots, social explosions that need to be interpreted and, above all, charge them. The direct intellectual assault was not effective to keep peace of domination.

The empire knew that, if the social discomfort escalated into political goals, it would be an alternative to capitalism, it would endanger it. That could not be allowed, we have to attack it there, where it can be harm irreparable: within ideology, theory.

A number of "theoretical potions" emerge with revolutionary taste, destined to dilute the fuel of protests, to make them in safe manifestations for the system.

The intellectuals called to postulate these theories, they were pushed to stardom by the media, names began to ring: tony negri, martha hacnecker, dussel, dieterich, mészáros ... they won prizes, they were awarded and edited abundantly. They formed the counter-revolutionary intellectual battalion. With them, capitalism must take another face and preserve itself.

The thesis of this battalion have a common structure, they obey to a single intention. Let's see.

They ignore the class struggle; replacing it with names that sound good, they give an air of erudition, using: crowd, potentia, constituent power, community, the people, but never social class.

These terms, these categories are irrelevant, they are useless to explain the movements of reality, they are only used to distract and pretend that they are doing revolution, when only prevent the escalation of protest to a political level.

When the dispossessed social classes believe this thesis, they are deprived of the political strife, the clash of classes are thrown unarmed into the slugs jaws of capitalism. In contrast, the ruling classes continue to deepen their awareness of class: with their State, their ideology and organizations are in conditions to hegemony.

This battalion discredits the seizure of power; they invent thousands of things about it. According to them, every revolutionary power can become in Soviet totalitarianism. They propose a kind of ethereal power that only exists in their minds, unables to take the power that they despise. At the most, they form innocuous clusters, which are used for social tourism; they never threaten the capitalism hegemony.

With Chavez’s arrival to power, the counter-revolutionary intellectual battalion was activated. They had obligatory scenery to apply their theories; the challenge was to keep that beautiful popular alluvium to climb the political forms that would endanger the system. They flew over here.

Without Chavez there is no Socialism, there is no Socialism without Chavez!

THE PRO-COUPS

Just months after the elections, the dominant theme is the coup. The dispute takes the scene. The fact does not need further explanation. Gringos asked for the search of way out without elections, rushing the onslaught against the people, Revolution and Commander Chávez. And the counter-revolution -submissive- fulfils received orders, plotting; the functions are already distributed. Let's see.

The one in charged of sowing disenchantment is the “squalid” teodoro; for that he talks of Generals that will perform a coup d’état if Chavez loses, the government does not believe in elections and prepares ignorance. In this way, he puts the political struggle in scenery; he justifies the counter-revolutionary conspiracy, preparing the international environment.

The retired militaries are responsible for the whispering of assets, causing trouble; they try to discredit some officers, arousing ambitions, increasing mistakes and oversights.

In other sectors, they try to do strikes as those carried out by the transport sector, prefabricated, forced; it is imperative to think that it was a trial balloon. We already know the connection between this sector and the gringo embassy. Doctors create discomfort, fascists threaten. In the counter-revolutionary board appears strongly the pro-coup component.

Oswaldo alvarez is the most conspicuous spokesman, they demand for resignation.

The pro-coup miserable is active; its hacks give credit to the pro-coup idea, who does not feel it is naive. The political scenery rapidly slides towards confrontation grounds. The election, if it does not disappear yet on the scenery, every day languishes. The counter-revolution knows defeated in the elections, tricked in an Assembly where they do not shine. They do not find a candidate to confront Chávez; they kill with a knife and look for crooked paths.

The revolutionary leaders already denounce the situation. Now, it is necessary to be prepared.

First of all, we have to ask ourselves: why suddenly accelerate the coup? The answer has an international component, we have already treated: the empire needs a success, and Chavez's head is an excellent trophy to climb the surveys, besides the extraordinary and strategic economic benefits.

Besides the international fact, the same Revolution has given clearance for pro-coup ambition. It is necessary to shield ideologically Revolution, let’s remember that every revolutionary defeat is always preceded by an ideological defeat. The counter-revolution is emboldened, its most pusillanimous hacks now sing as roosters because they perceive ideological weakness, ambiguity, desire of agreements, and the deployment of bridges.

It is indispensable to mobilize the Bolivarian mass, the statements are not enough, the electoral majority is not enough, it is necessary a performer majority, able to vote and to go out to defend Revolution and Commander Chavez.

It is necessary to end the little trips, pettiness and minor intrigue between the Bolivarian, it is necessary to raise the level of debate, of statements. Now, every taken step, every public intervention will influence the pro-coup scenery. The verbal pyrotechnics harms us.

It is imperative that the “squalid” feel that the order of the Commander will be fulfilled. The commander ordered: "The response will be devastating". Today more than ever takes effect the "Motherland, Socialism or Death".

Without Chavez there is no Socialism, there is no Socialism without Chavez!

THE RECIVINDIST FEDECAMARAS

In crises, positions of dominant classes are shown without makeup: contradictions are evident, sides become clear, and everything is subject to the power struggle.

We live in deep crisis, let’s remember the words of Gramsci, “The old does not stop dying and the new does not stop to be born, in that twilight monsters emerge". Thus, we have the opportunity to go to the new or go back to old, while we face the danger of the fascist monster's rise. Under these conditions, the opposing sides take their positions.

Fedecamaras -representing capitalist interests, of all, both small and large- comes out to scene, asking its place in the coup, it arrived with its size of executioner, the same April’s outfit. Let's see.

Fedecamaras, capitalist, have their claims for transition, for the coup.

The first claim -and it could be otherwise- is against the workers. "They request to give them carte blanche, letter of marquee to fire employees without any impediment". The capital shows its true exploitative face, of appropriate the labor of others.

Then, they ask "to let them loot the currency reserves, and suspend the exchange control". And that means to give them the country's wealth. Thus, they demonstrate its parasitic nature of rent.

They request to stop expropriation. They know that the non-social property of the means of production is the way of stealing other people's work, this is capitalism’s pillar. What they want is to leave intact the economic structure that allows them to steal work, to enrich at other people’s expenses.

They also call for the suspension of price control.

The government proposal is made of "fraught with good intentions," they speak of dialogue, and being prepared to create jobs for millions, and so on. It is the same lecturing of always, in fact what they present are their requirements for the pro-coup government.

Capitalists already took their place in the coup, they came to light, but other factors are missing, there must come the conference of bishops. Let’s remember “la Quinta Esmeralda”, they relapse and the picture is formed again.

The illusions and plans -that the capitalists will stop acting as capitalists, and that they will lose their nature- will dissipate. The intentions of unnatural unions between capitalism and Socialism are belied by reality.

Revolution must define its profile and overcome the candid stage of the First Republic; it must understand and make understand the mass that we are in a final war against oligarchy. And the North’s masters launched the same order that they gave to Allende’s opposition: ending up with this government, assassinating the example.

In short, what FEDECAMARAS expresses is a disguised ultimatum, it asks the government to give up, to stop being Socialist and to deliver the country to gringos. The answer is one: They will not return! No matter what it costs us, we will defend motherland.

Without Chavez there is no Socialism, there is no Socialism without Chavez!