ENGLISH/ESPAÑOL
WATCH
No. 439
VIVA VENEZUELA !!!
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Folks,
Over the last years, we have discussed intensively and extensively the natural-social phenomena of racism, nazism, globofascism, mental holocaust and human genocide, with their corresponding physical levels, intellectual degrees and transcendental mensions of equal, unequal, combined, transhistoric relations; we studied, in nuce, their labour quintessence: economic exploitation, political domination, social discrimination, military annihilation and global alienation.
This is the transhistoric context, but I will not repeat it here.
It is now time to realize these views, to change,
to excel this world of terror, of terrorism.
Within this context, let me comment on the current world, transhistoric situation of Venezuela.
All over the globe there is a clamour, a glamour for positive attitudes, optimism and hope, and when, eventually, by surprise, where least expected, they concretely appear, simply because the new, the original, the authentic do not fit in our myopic, Euro-Americentric, master-slave mentality, in our "true socialist", "Our Party" or "Marxist-Leninist" split personalities, in our orthodox doctrines, in our "Christian", "Marxist" or "Trotskyist" century-old monolithic schemes, we either do not notice them, or we condemn them as "populism", "reactionary petty-bourgeois politics", "militarism", "dictatorship", "Castro-communism", "terrorism", etc.
Well, for those "Marxists" or "Anti-Marxists" who have not yet noticed it, who did not study their Marx and Bakunin with scientific vigour, we wish to salute the millions of Venezuelan pauperized masses of people -- whether they are "proletarian", "lumpen", "bourgeois" or "middle-class" -- , who like the Communards of Paris, 1871, although they had no chance of eventual victory whatsoever, still "stormed heaven". Marx criticized and warned, but when they stopped to interpret Paris in various ways, and stepped in to change it, to act and to write transhistory, he gave them his full revolutionary, solidaric support. Por ahora, we do likewise.
In this revolutionary spirit, Richard Gott, in the
British Guardian of today, (see below) stated:
"Pilin Leon, a former Miss Venezuela, was busy judging the Miss World competition in London on Saturday when the oil tanker that bears her name, illegally at anchor in Lake Maracaibo (principal source of Venezuela's oil), was boarded by Venezuelan marines.
The end of history was supposed to mean an end to class struggle, but the current political conflict in Venezuela suggests it is alive and well."
It is a transhistoric truth that the millions of Venezuelans defending their economic heart-beat -- which, till 1999, in any case was beating for the very same "opposition", for the current oligarchs and putschists, who in their previous kleptocracies, had robbed in US $ more than five "Marshall Plans", and deposited this amount in foreign banks, a sum that could have paid the whole external debt of Venezuela -- their major income, still have, mutatis mutandis, the social superstructure on a non-industrialized, mainly Roman Catholic, "Third World", peasant, buhonero social consciousness, and that Chavez has to use a corresponding religious, popular "ideology" to address, to catch the revolutionary imagination of this 80% of a total population of 24 million, as a result of the previous governments of the "opposition", living, no, vegetating, on the "arepa" line. Within three years, he elevated them from the revolutionary spirit of Miranda, during the French Revolution, to the Paris Commune, to storming the very heaven that kept them ignorant and obscure for centuries.
Chavez is no socialist, no communist, no Marxist, he himself stated it over and over again. Hence, we cannot expect from him, and his social class, the middle class, and all his supporters, coming from all the social strata, to lead a socialist, proletarian class struggle in Venezuela. This is not his transhistoric task. He cannot convert overnight a rotten Punto Fijo egg into a hen that lays golden eggs.
However, in a world that is heading towards a human apocalypse, where the USA brandish the global terrorist whip, that we portrayed over and over again, where only the clarion call of Trotsky, already spoken at the eve of the 20th century, is still scientifically and philosophically valid: dum spiro spero, as long as I breathe, I hope, and where his epitaph is the only revolutionary hope: "life is beautiful, enjoy it to the fullest", what the majority of Venezuelans, under the leadership of the Chavez Government achieved, have achieved on April 11-13, 2002, and yesterday, simply catapults them into the future, into emancipatory transhistory.
That they will be stopped by Euro-American globofascism, that they may suffer the same fate as the Paris Communards, of the genocide of coming obsolete physical labour forces, that´s not the question here. It is a matter of celebrating the fiery glow of the last ashes of homo sapiens sapiens, of the Venezuelan Phoenix of the so-called "Third Millennium".
WHO STILL WANTS TO HOPE,
HOPE FOR VENEZUELA,
POR AHORA, NOW!!
Viva Venezuela!
Long Live the Caracas Stormers of Heaven!
FRANZ.
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