Welcome! ¡Bienvenidos! Willkommen! The time-bomb is ticking storm, hurricanes and floods. DR. FRANZ J. T. LEE'S REVOLUTION AND HOW TO THINK AND MAKE IT http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=1329519716897090941&hl=es Dr. Franz J. T. Lee, Political Science teacher at the University of The Andes in Merida, Venezuela for 29 years, explains revolution and how to think and make it of, by and for ourselves within the context of globalization.  Visit us at: http://www.franzlee.org.ve http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=1329519716897090941&hl=es Chavez: Third phase of the Bolivarian Revolution will be a huge revolutionary step forward Caracas March, February 12, 2009 Venezuelan Masses Crossing the Rubicon The Big March towards Human Emancipation  ***** El debacle mundial es una profunda crisis capitalista energética sistémica Por Franz J. T. Lee No se trata simplemente de una crisis económica o financiera, es el colapso del modo de destrucción capitalista. Es bien sabido que las chispas aisladas pueden incendiar toda una pradera en llamas. La sensible dependencia sobre las condiciones iniciales en un ambiente internacional actualmente muy inestable y caótico, es decir, el famoso “efecto mariposa” (teoría del caos) en todo momento muy bien podría liberar ondas de explosión social a nivel mundial, pero también baños de sangre premeditados de terrorismo “humanista” y “preventivo”. Nuestros arsenales internacionales de modernos y sofisticados armas de destrucción masiva, no fueron producidos para video-juegos, para la caza de zorros el domingo por la mañana o por pura decoración. En primer lugar, en defensa del capitalismo mundial, estas armas están a cargo de soldados, mercenarios y los escuadrones de la muerte paramilitares. Su objetivo son los trabajadores “no amistosos”, la carne de cañón electoral y mantener a raya los “condenados de la tierra”. Claro, hasta donde alcanzan los recursos limitados, también se están utilizando todo tipo de armas anticuadas en legítima defensa, como en las luchas de clase de los trabajadores a nivel global. No obstante, la lucha de clases se ha globalizado; en todas partes, en Sri Lanka, Martinica, Francia, Nepal o Dinamarca, sus inexorables contradicciones hacen estragos. Para razones de naturaleza estratégica y energética, para cualquier presidente estadounidense, siempre Chávez será un 'tirano' dictatorial. Por otro lado, en cuanto a la realidad venezolana Obama, como Bush, defendiendo los intereses imperialistas corporativos, siempre será "ignorante" . Como veremos más adelante: el debacle mundial es una profunda crisis capitalista energética sistémica. Sin embargo, una vez más, es el mejor de los tiempos, es el peor de los tiempos. ... ¿Que está ocurriendo en las afueras de las luchas globales de clase? ¿Cuál es la relación entre las huelgas obreras en París y aquellas de Fort-de-France? ¿Será que tienen una relación con la actual “crisis energética”? El gallo galo ya estuvo cantando dos veces en un período muy corto de tiempo. Su toque de diana incluso llegó a la zona tropical del Caribe. Por otra parte, al igual que en otros lugares, una huelga general victoriosa de 38 días en la Martinica de Frantz Fanon está inspirando a los trabajadores franceses en el continente europeo en sus militantes luchas laborales contra la explotación económica, los despidos, los recortes salariales y la pérdida de beneficios sociales vitales. Para aquellos que todavía tienen la mente para ver, para ver la lucha de clases en acción, en la capital, Fort-de-France, tuvo lugar una feroz batalla política entre los “Békés’, los ricos blancos descendientes de los colonos franceses y los oprimidos descendientes negros de las víctimas africanas de la trata transatlántica de esclavos. De hecho, como consecuencia de la recesión mundial, el levantamiento de los trabajadores se extiende a Guadalupe y La Reunión. Debido al alto costo de la vida, al hambre y la miseria, en Guadalupe también estallaron fuertes disturbios durante todo un mes. Al igual que en París, las huelgas contra la austeridad se incrementarán, se convertirán más y más grande y se extenderán en todo el mundo. Mientras tanto, en los EE.UU., el Banco de la Reserva Federal está tirando más y más billones de dólares de papel nuevo sin valor en el mercado mundial. Se espera que esto estimulará la actividad económica. Sin embargo, el sistema de finanzas paralizado y el caos económico ya está empezando a afectar a nivel mundial la vida política y social. En todas partes, de la noche a la mañana como hongos están surgiendo “suburbios de carpas”. Esto es sintomático de lo que está por venir, del “efecto voltereta” del colapso de la economía norteamericana: la generación de ondas de choque de fuertes turbulencias inflacionarias, pandemónium de la moneda, migración, pero también grupos sociales desclasificados y sociedades trastocadas. (Véase también: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/03/19/terence-corcoran-is-este el fin de america.aspx) La actual súper depresión no es sólo una debacle financiera, no sólo un fiasco económico, sino es fundamentalmente un colapso energético de un modo de destrucción. Cuando está en el orden del día un cambio radical de un modo de producción obsoleto, este está siendo acompañado de una radical revolución energética. Desde ya muchas décadas, la llamada “crisis energética” se podría haber resuelto por medio de la tecnología de Tesla, no obstante, los “cuatro grandes de Detroit” y otros gigantes de la industria petrolera y automotriz no tenían interés económico alguno en la modificación de la actual base energética del imperialismo corporativo. Por supuesto, secretamente, la energía libre electromagnética y la “energía libre del vacío”  fueron abusados para la guerra moderna, la militarización del espacio, las armas de destrucción masiva y los proyectos de HAARP. Esta energía libre y creativa está en contradicción con los intereses de las ganancias capitalistas. Aparte de sus más recientes escritos, ya hace una década, Thomas Bearden advirtió que si los EE.UU. no resolverán su “crisis energética”, en otras palabras, no se saldrán de la autopista hacia la barbarie, entonces podría ocurrir lo siguiente: “La fecha de 2003 parece ser el crítico ‘punto de no retorno’ para la supervivencia de la civilización como la hemos conocido. Llegando a este punto, por ejemplo, en 2005, no se resolverá la crisis a tiempo, y es casi seguro que ocurrirá el colapso de la economía mundial, así como la destrucción de la civilización y la biosfera, incluso con las soluciones en la mano. ... Inquietantemente, esta amenaza se cierne ahora en nuestro futuro no muy lejano, debido en gran parte a la creciente e insoportable tensión que provocará la escalada de los precios del petróleo. Por lo tanto, más o menos unos siete años, a partir de ahora, vamos a entrar en el período de la amenaza del Armagedón final, a menos que hagamos algo muy, muy rápidamente ahora, para resolver total y permanentemente la presente ‘crisis de energía eléctrica a partir del petróleo’.” Ahora, hemos llegado al año 2009, que para Bearden fue la inexorable aproximación hacia el día del juicio final. Según él, ¿qué es lo que todavía puede ser necesario para solucionar el problema? ¡Venezuela, escuche con mucha atención a lo que Bearden propuso hace una década! “Para evitar el colapso inminente de la economía mundial y / o la destrucción de la civilización y la biosfera, debemos reemplazar rápidamente la mayor parte de la “energía eléctrica a partir del petróleo”... En nombre de toda la humanidad, ¡empecemos! De lo contrario, puede ser, que al final de esta primera década del nuevo milenio, gran parte de la humanidad no va a ver la segunda década”. Véase: http://www.cmaq.net/en/node.php?id=17547 Lo anterior es la explicación de por qué no se trata simplemente de una crisis económica o financiera, es el colapso del modo de destrucción capitalista. Probablemente, sólo la aniquilación total del capitalismo global, estipulando su negación dialéctica, a saber, el socialismo, puede todavía salvar a la humanidad como especie. **** COMENTARIOS Roberto 2009-03-25 04:29:05 pero, solo un pero... Querido Camarada. la civilización socialista, carga con lastres aun no desechados , una larga historia de inconexos datos, de heroicas proesas y inconfesables crímenes en nombre del socialismo, lo que esta en crisis es el capitalismo, el socialismo si se quiere no nació, no ha nacido, no ha existido, todo un siglo que nació con tardanza en 1917 no nos ha dejado ni una hoja de papel lo suficientemente clara para que tu y yo sigamos adelante, es muy preclaro hablar de crisis del capitalismo cuando se tienen ingresos per capita de 300 dolares, aquí en América Latina donde no alcanza a los dos dolares no sabemos exactamente que es lo nuevo de esta crisis, y eso de resucitar el espíritu naturalista de una pequeña granja colectiva, de canticos y discursos, ya no lo creen ni los mas tontos, esta es una sociedad industrial y consumista,aun dentro del socialismo real esta es la única verdadera tendencia hacia algo mejor...nunca ,,hacia algo peor. **** Camarada Roberto, , en gran parte estoy de acuerdo contigo. El único problema es definir con precisión práxica: ¿qué realmente es el capitalismo?  ¿Qué es la ciencia del movimiento, del llegar a ser, la dialéctica?Entonces sabemos que es una afirmación y qué es posible, su negación. Hay una diferencia fundamental entre lo posible, el socialismo, y lo real, el capitalismo global. Nunca en ninguna parte el capitalismo ha permitido el socialismo de nacer. Entonces, ¿Qué es la quintaesencia del capitalismo? La explotación económica, la dominación política, la discriminación social, el genocidio militar terrorista y la alienación humana. El socialismo es precisamente lo opuesto, lo posible. Por favor, lee mi pequeño libro: "?Qué es el socialismo? Tu puedes descargar lo aquí: http://www.franzlee.org.ve/newbooks.html Quién sabe qué es el capitalismo sí sabe qué es el socialismo: su No, su Negación, su Opuesto!  Saludos fraternales, Franz.   **** **** The global debacle is a profound structural energetic crisis By Franz J. T. Lee This is not simply a financial or economic crisis, it is the energetic collapse of the capitalist mode of destruction. By Franz J. T. Lee It is well known that single sparks could set whole prairies on wild bush fires. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions in a currently highly volatile and chaotic, international environment, namely, the famous "butterfly effect" (chaos theory) at any moment very well could set free waves of global social explosions and class struggles, but also premeditated bloodbaths of the  "humanistic" and "preemptive" terrorist types.  Our international stockpiles, our arsenals of sophisticated weapons of mass destruction, were not produced for video-games, for Sunday morning fox-hunting or window-dressing. In the first place, in defense of world capitalism, they are being handled by soldiers and mercenaries, by wage-workers and paramilitary death squads. They are aimed at "unfriendly" workers, at cannon- and electoral-fodder, to keep the pauperized "wretched of the earth" at bay. Of course, as far as the limited resources reach, all kinds of out-dated arms are also being captured, bought and used in self-defense by liberators and freedom fighters in global workers' class struggles. In the same way as imperialism had globalized itself, its negation is now also spreading across the globe as a single workers' protest movement. In Palestine the outcasts live in camps like cows for decades already, now in the USA the unemployed, homeless workers are vegetating in 'tent cities'. Who still doubts that capitalism as a world system has failed mercilessly? Who still wants to bail it out fraternally? As long as Venezuela defends her natural resources, especially oil, gas and water, important natural energetic sources, there will never develop fraternal relations between Uncle Sam and Chavez. The capitalist exploitative energy is running out, this is the real economic trigger of this super depression. For the time being, for a while,  oil will still remain as a primordial source of industrial and economic energy. However, energy from the vacuum, free Tesla energy, is already being used by the 'Pentagon Aliens', is already flashing in the night skies of Los Alamos. In the North, in Alaska already the angels are playing the free energetic HAARP! New energy presupposes a new society, new human relations, a new species.  This capitalism can only bring forth by annihilating itself. This is the only way out of this social Behemoth.. However, again, as Charles Dickens said, it is the best of times, it is the worst of times. ... What is happening on the outskirts of global class struggles? In the ex- and neo-colonies of imperialist Europe, for example, in the Caribbean? What is the link between workers' strikes in Paris and those in Fort-de-France? Do they have a relation to the current 'energy crisis'? The Gallic rooster was crowing twice within a very short period of time. It's clarion call was heard even in the tropical Caribbean. On the other hand, like elsewhere, a victorious 38-day general strike in Frantz Fanon's Martinique was inspiring the French workers on the European continent in their militant labor struggles against economic exploitation, lay-offs, wage cuts and the loss of vital social benefits. For those who still have minds to see, to see class struggle in action, in the capital, Fort-de-France, a fierce political battle was raging between  the 'békés', the wealthy white ruling descendants of French colonists, and the black oppressed offspring of the African victims of the transatlantic slave trade. In fact, as a result of the global recession, workers' unrest spreads to Guadeloupe and La Réunion. Because of the high cost of living, of hunger and misery, in Guadeloupe for a whole month, heavy riots also broke out. Like in Paris, the national strikes against austerity will increment, become bigger and bigger and spread across the globe. Meanwhile, in the USA, the Federal Reserve Bank is throwing more and more worthless trillions of fresh paper dollars on the world market, into the paper Moloch. It hopes that this would stimulate economic activity. However, the paralyzed finance and economic chaos already is beginning to affect global political and social life. All over, overnight like mushrooms  "tent cities" are springing up. This is symptomatic of things to come, of the "spillover effect" of the collapse of the North American economy: generating shock waves of heavy inflationary turmoil, currency pandemonium, migration, but also declassed social groups and disrupted societies ... a fertile environment for possible world fascism. ( Also see: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/ fpcomment/archive/2009/03/19/terence-corcoran-is- this-the-end-of-america.aspx  ) The current Super Depression is not only a finance debacle, not only an economic fiasco, it is fundamentally an energetic collapse of an obsolete mode of destruction. When ever a radical change of an obsolete mode of production is on the order of the day, it is being accompanied by a radical energetic revolution. Since many decades already the so-called "energy crisis" could have been resolved by means of the technology of Tesla, however the "Detroit Big Four" and other giants of the oil and motor industries had no economic interest in altering the current energetic basis of corporate imperialism. Of course, secretly for modern warfare, space militarization, weapons of mass destruction  and HAARP projects free electromagnetic energy  ... "free energy from the vacuum" ... was abused. This free, creative energy contradicts capitalist profit interests. It is the clean, free energy for future creative orgone (Wilhelm Reich), for emancipatory relations. Apart from his most recent writings, already a decade ago, Thomas Bearden warned that if the USA would not solve its "energy crisis", in other words, would not leave the highway towards  barbarism, then the  following could happen: "The 2003 date appears to be the critical 'point of no return' for the survival of civilization as we have known it. Reaching that point, say, in 2005 will not solve the crisis in time, and the collapse of the world economy as well as the destruction of civilization and the biosphere will still almost certainly occur, even with the solutions in hand. ... Eerily, this very threat now looms in our not too distant future, due in large part to the increasing and unbearable stresses that escalating oil prices will elicit. So about seven years or so from now, we will enter the period of the threat of the Final Armageddon, unless we do something very, very quickly now, to totally and permanently solve the present 'electrical energy from oil crisis'." Now, we have reached the year 2009, which for Bearden was the inexorable approximation towards doomsday.  According to him, what may still be required to solve the global problem of depression and recession? Venezuela, listen very carefully to what he suggested a decade ago! "To avoid the impending collapse of the world economy and/or the destruction of civilization and the biosphere, we must quickly replace much of the "electrical energy from oil" ... In the name of all humanity, let us begin! Else by the time this first decade of the new millennium ends, much of humanity may not remain to see the second decade." (See: http://www.cmaq.net/en/node.php?id=17547 ) The above is the explanation why this is not simply a financial or economic crisis, it is the energetic collapse of the capitalist mode of destruction. Probably, only the total annihilation of global capitalism, by bringing forth its dialectical negation, that is, socialism, can we still save mankind as a species. franz@franzlee.org.ve http://www.franzlee.org.ve ***** Venezuela: Third phase of the Bolivarian Revolution will be a huge revolutionary step forward ***** Chávez: La tercera fase de la Revolución Bolivariana será un enorme paso revolucionario hacia adelante La censura informativa internacional contra hávez y Venezuela. Monday, February 16, 2009 Bylined to: Dr. Franz J.T. Lee ***** Venezuela: Third phase of the Bolivarian Revolution will be a huge revolutionary step forward VHeadline commentarist and University of Los Andes (ULA) political sciences professor, Dr. Franz J.T. Lee writes: Far from steering our ships of state towards the safe waters of eternal world peace, towards the harbors of the democratic doldrums of liberty, equality and fraternity, we are living and dying in a dangerous epoch of manifold global contradictions and conflicts, of recession and depression, of local and international wars, of hot blooded genocide and cold blooded ecocide, of social alienation and individual sadomasochism, of personal cyclophrenia (manic-depressive psychosis) and massive schizophrenia, of manslaughter (Manchurian Candidates) and paramilitary death squads, of Lilliputian egoism and Cyclopic megalomania, of 'freedom of speech, of thought, of the press' and 'full spectrum dominance,' of Body and Mind Control and of the most mortal, fatal and lethal of them all: of the War of Ideas. We called this world war: Practice and Ideology versus Praxis and Theory. This is the historical context of the gigantic victory of the Venezuelan peoples, of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), led by President Chavez,  in the Sunday elections ... they were  performed in a peaceful, transparent, paradigmatic referendum. Of course, if we try to emancipate humanity from such a capitalist Moloch, we are ostracized as terrorists, dictators and tyrants ... this is happening to President Chavez of Venezuela. Fighting against this is the real victory of February 15, 2009, of Venezuela. In the late evening, in his address to the nation, Chavez made it clear to the celebrating multitude that the third phase of the Bolivarian Revolution will be a huge revolutionary step forward. Summing up, he underlined, as always, that with incisive praxis and decisive theory Venezuela must take up arms against 'a sea of troubles,' against the capitalist, imperialist, corporate mode of destruction of Life, of Ideas, Thought, Theory, Philosophy and Emancipation. Concerning the latter, this morning my Brazilian friend informed me of the following: 'Este programa não pode ser fechado porque foi bloqueado pelo sistema.' (This program cannot be shown, it is blocked by the system) He explained further:  "The 'system' censored the e-mail which you had sent me yesterday, which contains the article on the Venezuelan elections: 'No problem for the yes (si) to accomplish a landslide victory,' published at: http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=77671 Well, what did the  international agencies not like about my political predictions? * That I tried to tell the flowing truth about Chavez and Venezuela. * In fact, that against the Goebbels type of propaganda lies, scientifically I did foretell the election results 24 hours before they took place. And, what were the results? Three and a half hours after polls closed, we were informed that with 94.2% of voted counted, the CNE (Venezuela�s National Electoral Council) announced that the electorate had voted 54.4% to 45.6% in favor of 'Yes,' of affirming the constitutional amendment. Precisely the 10 points difference, the 'million votes,' which I mentioned a day before, forced the opposition  unwillingly to accept the results. We are entering the season of carnival, of pan et circensis, of the Via Crucis to Golgotha, nowadays to Gaza. Our real political victory will occur when the emotional joy has subsided, and global reality will demonstrate that the only road left for permanent global revolution is scientific, philosophic and sapient socialism, that is, criticizing, self-critical, living Marxism. Franz J.T. Lee franz.lee@vheadline.com http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=77687 ***** Chávez: La tercera fase de la Revolución Bolivariana será un enorme paso revolucionario hacia adelante La censura informativa internacional contra hávez y Venezuela. Franz J. T. Lee | Aporrea.Org / VHeadline.Com | Hoy 2:33 | 6 lecturas www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/chavez-tercera-fase-revolucion-bolivariana-sera-enorme-paso-revolucion Artículo/noticia publicado/a en Kaosenlared.net en el apartado de Libre Publicación NO seleccionada/o por el Colectivo Editorial Lejos de dirigir nuestros buques de Estado hacia las tranquilas aguas de la paz mundial eterna, hacia los puertos del bache democrático de la libertad, igualdad y fraternidad, estamos viviendo y muriendo en una peligrosa época de múltiples contradicciones y conflictos mundiales, de recesión y depresión, de guerras locales e internacionales, de genocidio de sangre caliente y ecocidio de sangre fría, de alienación social y sadomasoquismo individual, de cyclophrenia personal (psicosis maníaco-depresiva) y esquizofrenia masiva, de carnicería humana (Candidatos de Manchuria) y escuadrones de la muerte paramilitares, de egoísmo liliputiense y megalomanía cíclope, de libertad de expresión, del pensamiento, de la prensa y del ‘dominio de espectro completo’, del control físico, mental y el más letal de todos: la Guerra de Ideas. Llamamos a este guerra mundial “la práctica e ideología versus la praxis y teoría”. Este es el contexto histórico de la gigantesca victoria del pueblo venezolano, del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), liderado por el Presidente Chávez, del pasado domingo de elecciones, las cuales se realizaron en un referéndum de forma pacífica, transparente y paradigmática. Por supuesto, si tratamos de emancipar la humanidad de tal Moloch capitalista, nos aíslan como terroristas, dictadores y tiranos ... esto es lo que está pasando con el Presidente Chávez de Venezuela. En la lucha contra esto, se demostrará la verdadera victoria del 15 de febrero de 2009 y de Venezuela. En la noche, en su discurso a la nación, Chávez dejó claro a la multitud celebrando, que la tercera fase de la Revolución Bolivariana será un enorme paso revolucionario hacia adelante. En resumen, subrayó, como siempre, que con praxis incisiva y teoría decisiva, Venezuela debe tomar las armas en contra de “un mar de problemas”, en contra de un modo de producción capitalista, imperialista y corporativo, que destruye la vida, las ideas, el pensamiento, la teoría, la filosofía y la emancipación. Con respecto a lo anterior, esta mañana mi amigo brasileño me informó lo siguiente: “Estimado Dr. Franz Lee, traté de enviar su e-mail a algunos de mis amigos esta mañana, fue “bloqueado”.... este es el mensaje que vi en la pantalla de mi ordenador: “Este programa Não Pode ser fechado porque foi bloqueado pelo sistema”. “(Este programa no puede ser demostrado, es bloqueado por el sistema.) Además explicó: “El “sistema” censuró el correo electrónico que usted me había enviado el día de ayer, que contiene el artículo sobre las elecciones en Venezuela: “Ningún problema para el “Sí” de lograr una victoria contundente”, publicado en: http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=77671”.   Bueno, a las agencias internacionales, ¿qué era lo que no les gustó de mis predicciones? * Que traté de decir la verdad fluyente acerca de Chávez y de Venezuela. * De hecho, y en contra de la propaganda de mentiras del tipo Goebbels, pronostiqué científicamente los resultados de la elección 24 horas antes de que se llevó a cabo: “Juzgando por la avalancha roja de los posibles votantes por Chávez, por los más de dos millones de personas que llenaron las calles de Caracas el 12 de febrero, no debería ser un problema para el “Sí” de lograr una victoria contundente... No importa si el domingo gana el “Si” o el “No”, en cualquier caso, estaremos en el mismo problema... a menos que ganemos con un mínimo de un millón de votos por delante del “No”.” Y, ¿cuáles fueron los resultados? Tres horas y media después de que las urnas fueron cerradas, el CNE nos informó que, con 94,2% de votos contados, el electorado había votado con un 54,4% en favor del “Sí” y con un 45,6% por el “No”, así que se aprobó la enmienda constitucional. Fueron precisamente los 10 puntos de diferencia, el “millón de votos”, que he mencionado un día antes, que obligó a la “oposición” de aceptar los resultados con mala gana. Estamos entrando en la temporada de carnaval, de pan et circenses, de la Vía Crucis a Gólgota, en la actualidad, a Gaza. Nuestra verdadera victoria política se producirá cuando la alegría emocional ha disminuido, y la realidad global demostrará, que el único camino hacia la revolución mundial permanente es el socialismo científico, filosófico y sapiente, es decir, el marxismo viviente, que critica y que auto-crítica. franz@franzlee.org.ve http://www.franzlee.org.ve   http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/chavez-tercera-fase-revolucion- bolivariana-sera-enorme-paso-revolucion Asia Times Online Community and News Discussion Third Phase Of The Bolivarian Revolution Will Be:  New Topic  Reply to Topic  Printer Friendly Author  Topic    petroamerica Member Brazil 7130 Posts Posted - 02/17/2009 :  05:18:07       A HUGE REVOLUTIONARY STEP FORWARD - Text by Prof. Franz J.T. Lee Venezuela. February 16, 2009 http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=77687 http://www.franzlee.org.ve/pandemonium01351.html I received these two URLs/links directly from Franz Lee this morning! Viva Hugo Chávez! - Viva Venezuela! - Viva América Latina! Armando Rozário - Cabo Frio, Brazil - February 17, 2009 Joe Kelley Member USA 1053 Posts Posted - 02/17/2009 :  10:03:34       How is the Chavez bank doing? juttafranz Stranger Venezuela 11 Posts Posted - 02/17/2009 :  20:32:10           Joe, Chavez has no bank. Venezuela, like other States, has a Central Bank. He has something which money cannot buy: Love for the Poor and the Love of the Poor. The Poor defended him, and he fights for the Poor against bankers, against finance capital, against the World Bank. Best regards, Franz J. T. Lee. http://forum.atimes.com/ topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15092& PHOTO GALLERY Franz & Jutta OUR LATEST VIDEOS -- NUESTROS VIDEOS MÄS RECIENTES VENEZUELA NOTICIAS VENEZUELA NEWS BULLETIN Kaosenlared Comentarios (3) de los comentarios #1 15-02-2009 21:25 1. el presidente no va a ganar y eso lo tenemos claro... **** #2.- Veremos en tres horas .... Franz J. T. Lee|15-02-2009 22:52 El camino del Señor es muy extraño .... ****** #3.- Predicción científica marxista Franz J. T. Lee|18-02-2009 16:38 Bueno, a las agencias internacionales, ¿qué era lo que no les gustó de mis predicciones? * Que traté de decir la verdad fluyente acerca de Chávez y de Venezuela. * De hecho, y en contra de la propaganda de mentiras del tipo Goebbels, pronostiqué científicamente los resultados de la elección 24 horas antes de que se llevó a cabo: “Juzgando por la avalancha roja de los posibles votantes por Chávez, por los más de dos millones de personas que llenaron las calles de Caracas el 12 de febrero, no debería ser un problema para el “Sí” de lograr una victoria contundente... No importa si el domingo gana el “Si” o el “No”, en cualquier caso, estaremos en el mismo problema... a menos que ganemos con un mínimo de un millón de votos por delante del “No”.” Y, ¿cuáles fueron los resultados? Tres horas y media después de que las urnas fueron cerradas, el CNE nos informó que, con 94,2% de votos contados, el electorado había votado con un 54,4% en favor del “Sí” y con un 45,6% por el “No”, así que se aprobó la enmienda constitucional. Fueron precisamente los 10 puntos de diferencia, el “millón de votos”, que he mencionado un día antes, que obligó a la “oposición” de aceptar los resultados con mala gana. Saludos, Franz.  http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/oposicion-esta-sembrando-viento- presidente-chavez-advierte-cosechara-t

Marx & Engels predicting the capitalist sorcerer who now no longer controls the powers of the nether world

By Franz J. T. Lee


In this dreadful era of so-called 'neo-liberal', "savage" globalization of capital and of capitalism, of coming world wars that may devastate the whole planet, it is high time that we state what is on our revolutionary minds and do what can possibly still be done to emancipate life on earth; otherwise we may soon be silenced forever and the species man may fade away into galactic oblivion. In spite of centuries of European, Christian and Western 'culture', 'civilization', 'education', religion and 'information', for billions of us, the wage slaves living in the South, ignorance is still bliss.

Many of us are still believing in colonial myths and religious fabrications, are dancing on the sinking imperialist Titanic and are picnicking on a rumbling, already erupting, globalized, corporate volcano, that has been struck by a powerful particle liberated from the nether world. Similarly, mighty earthquakes generated by HAARP in Alaska, using Tesla technology, in chain reaction are now shaking the very foundations of human existence; droughts and famine drive us out of existence. The greenback is in agony, it does not trust in God anymore; oil prices are reaching record heights, millions die of hunger, a terrible world war is being launched, many of us feel nothing, see nothing, think nothing. ...

In spite of nearly two centuries of scientific and philosophic socialist enlightenment, of the revelations of the internet video "Zeitgeist", we still fear to tackle our real problems at their very roots, we prefer to polish up our mental chains of illusion, we dread any possible social freedom, we very  carefully evade global emancipation.

What is to be done, what is to be thought by billions?

To achieve the latter, we have no choice in the battle against global, systemic, systematic barbarism. Yes, by Jove, it is "end times", Apollo is indicating that we are crossing the Rubicon, the Zodiac, towards the Age of Aquarius. In the 60s all over the protesting student youths were fascinated by this revolutionary, creative  transcendence; they were looking at guerrilla documentary films in the jazz cellars, they wore black berets, with "new age" music they welcomed the revolution, were dancing to the rhythm of the galactic spheres. This was a time before everything was ideologized to the "5th dimension".

Today, globally, we have to grasp imperialism at its very cultural and economic roots, we have to become radical, we have to eradicate an obsolete, apocalyptic world order. This can only be accomplished by negating it dialectically, by annihilating its major roots: economic exploitation of nature and man; political domination by the ruling class State with all its oppressive institutions and corrupt machinery; social discrimination, ranging from the unequal global master-slave relations to the repression of women and children, to open violent racism against indigenous peoples and ransacked continents; universal militarization and genocide, ranging from "full spectrum dominance", to "preventive wars", to "military humanism", to "the war against international terrorism"; and finally, dehumanization, ranging from a global mental holocaust, launched ever since Ancient Greece, to total human alienation, brought about by capitalist indoctrination and ruling class manipulation, media disinformation, an education for corporate barbarism, a dying culture and merciless dissocialization and a pathological disassociation.

This is not an academic issue, it is a battle of life or death.

Before we can even talk about Marxism, at first, in our schools and missions, at our universities we have to study capitalism scientifically and philosophically. Soon we will discover that with ruling class ideology, with formal logic, with religious metaphysics,  with pacifism and reformism we cannot identify the very destructive, bellicose roots of capitalism. To know living Marxism is to know globalized capitalism, is to know that big business is war, and that war is big business. We cannot introduce big business (mammon) and socialism in Venezuela at the same time. A socialism that is not radically anti-capitalist, that is not Marxist, that nurtures class consensus and alliances,  that negates global class struggle, eventually will degenerate into reformism.

This historic truth was verified scientifically by all the attempted, aborted and betrayed social revolutions of the 20th century. Cuba is a very special case, but even there currently the social revolution is in serious danger. Only by knowing the transhistoric truth about capitalism can we discover the roots of its negation, that is, of socialism, Marxism. The latter is just as alive and globalized as capitalism itself. What is hindering its recognition and realization is capitalist ideology, is the absence of philosophic theory, of scientific praxis. Generally the radical students, the youth movements, the workers' vanguard  investigate and enrich the class struggle. However, the brutal onslaught of mind, thought and act control is playing havoc with the youth on a world scale. No where else in the world this heinous crime is so clear as in Venezuela, where for a decade already it is being perpetrated by the "opposition" and the international mass media against President Hugo Chavez, against the Bolivarian Revolution. But also some of our comrades have internalized bourgeois ideology and practices, and it is very difficult to exorcize capitalist attitudes and behavior patterns over night.

Independent of the fact that our acts and thoughts may be stopped, censured or forbidden, sometimes even by our very own comrades-in-arms, there are scientific facts and philosophic truths right before our eyes, which our partially manipulated and indoctrinated minds very often cannot grasp, cannot fathom, cannot accept.

Hence, in this spirit, let us look at the background of the current revolutionary inertia of the youth and students at schools and universities. What is causing this social danger for the future of mankind? What is absent, what is being destroyed systematically?

The answer is very simple:

It is youth itself, youthful anticipatory daydreams, the concrete, utopian principle of hope (Ernst Bloch)!

Just now we will give an example of the theoretical power and veracity of true Marxist analysis, and transhistoric scientific prediction.

Inter alia, compared to the 60s of the previous century, to the massive, global protests against the Vietnam War, to the concrete support for the liberation movements in Latin America and Africa, to the Black Power movement in the United States of America, to the freedom struggles against world imperialism and to the condemnation of Apartheid in South Africa and of Zionism in Israel, relatively, at the eve of the 21st Century, globally very little revolutionary activity and thought can be registered among pupils, students and the youth in general.

Or, is it just that the Murdoch empire does not inform us about global rebellion?

Except some brave political paradigms, even within the Bolivarian Revolution, in Venezuela itself, the absence of university fire, of emancipatory praxis and theory, that is, of socialism, of Marxism, is alarming.

* What happened? What is happening to our ministries of education, our institutions of learning, their curricula and  teachers?

*To our students and professors?

* Why does a great part of the academic youth at the traditional universities of Venezuela and elsewhere mostly support reactionary, reformist and anti-socialist tendencies? Over the last decade a lot was done to remedy this critical situation, but working class conscientization is moving forward at snail pace.

* What is the class character of the students at our instittions of higher learning?  Which class interests do they defend, to what are they aspiring?

* Why are we looking mainly towards the past for revolutionary solutions, while in reality the future is ours?

* Why is it so arduous to establish new revolutionary schools and universities, to create working class consciousness, to win over the students for the revolution, for socialism in Venezuela?

* What is the "educational" role of capitalist consumerism, music, videos, video games, education, religion and ideology in the globalized pacification of the youth?

* In globalization, are there no workers anymore, do they not form any social class anymore? Are students not future workers, part of class struggle?

Surely, these questions we have to ask, to study, but within the limits of a short article, we can just touch some factors of emancipatory pertinence.


Scientifically and philosophically, questions are answers, and answers are questions, are questionable. Hence, here are more youthful answering questions and more academic questioning answers:

Now, really learning from living, dialectical history, what really fascinated and bewitched the global youth of the 60s? What had to be halted with LSD and drugs of the CIA? What is currently absent in Venezuela? In the 60s what did all the huge metropolitan printing houses publish? For example, which works were republished by S. Fischer Verlag or Suhrkamp Verlag in Germany? Believe it or not: it was classic works of Marxists, the collected works of Leon Trotsky! Writings of Fidel Castro, Malcom X, Che Guevara and the Dependency theoreticians. These works the students read, studied and they developed their own social theories and political forms of resistance. It was a time when at first one was studying a book of Marx, for example, the Manifesto of the Communist Party, and only then one was able fairly to criticize Marxism constructively.

In the 60s, Revolutionary Theory was in the air, Emancipatory Praxis was in the making, and the youths were on the barricades. At the same time, a restructuring of the world market took place, a new technological revolution was ushered in; Orwellian globalization, global terrorism, was launched, to stop this emancipatory fire.

The modern bedeviling of class struggle, socialism, communism and Marxism began. .

Of course, concerning this phenomenon much has been said and written.However, in the meantime, what has disappeared from the curricula of all major international universities?

With what was the history of workers' movements, of global class struggle replaced? For example, across 26 years, who was still teaching such "obsolete" subjects at the University of The Andes? Many leading Bolivarian comrades learned about Marxism for the first time in my iniversity seminars.

However, returning to our central topic, here we can just briefly highlight the most important factors that sparked off juvenile revolutionary fervor in the middle of the 20th century, that grasped the imagination of the "wretched of the earth" and which seemingly is currently lacking in Venezuelan academic life. My teacher, the German philosopher Ernst Bloch summarized it as the hot (emotional, theoretical) and cold (incisive, scientific) currents in Marxism, as explained in his philosophic reflections with reference to the then aborted socialist revolution in Chile.

But, at first, let us look at who all world wide were supporting the fascist ruling class status quo, and what did they attack with all the ferocious might of their ideological, belligerent apparel and State power.

Today, this does not seem to be necessary anymore. Why?

Did Plato in his "Republic" or Hitler in his "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle) tell the global rulers what to do with controlled education and international mas media?

During the reactionary racist epoch of McCarthy in the United States, but also in the 60s, during the "Cold War", the most hated political actors and thinkers were either true Marxists or critical persons who were denigrated as "communists"and who were systematically eliminated as "Marxists". In this way in Indonesia a million "communists" were slaughtered within a very short period of time. Their crime was the mistake to have been inspired by an 'obsolete' Marx.

The apartheid regimes of Southern Africa even passed Anti-Communism Laws, and imprisoned anyone who possessed or studied the writings of Marxists with a minimum sentence of five years jail. In fact, the Minister of Justice personally was given the right to decide what was communism or Marxism. In this way, my Ph.D thesis on the Influence of Marxism in Southern Africa landed under the ax of censorship of apartheid. The racist, fascist regime was radically anti-Marxist.

The architect of apartheid in South Africa, Hendrik F. Verwoerd, studied anti-communism in Hitler's "Third Reich". German Nazism was radically anti-Marxist. Many gypsies, Blacks and Marxists also ended up in the Jewish "holocaust". Although many famous Marxists were Jews, were persecuted by the Nazi regime, Zionism, the Israeli version of apartheid, till this day is radically anti-Marxist. Stalinism assassinated Lenin's Bolsheviks, eradicated revolutionary Marxism in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. Over the last decades, the Venezuelan "puntofijista"  governments were all anti-Marxist, they negated dialectics and the class struggle. In China we have a "communism" liberated from Mao tse-Tung and Marx. What happened to Tito's Marxism in Yugoslavia?

Did all these pro-capitalist and pro-imperialist regimes want to save us, the world, from the 'red danger', from Marxism? Is current global fascism an antidote, a panacea against Marxism?

Now, why do the youth, the revolutionaries of Venezuela urgently need knowledge about Marxism? What can Marxism teach us about our current Orwellian present? What is socialism without Marxism?

What are our erudite professors hiding from the student youth? Let us see how out-of-date, how 'obsolete', how radical can Marxism be.

The first scientific theoreticians of current globalization, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, in 1848, with up to date theoretical precision already described the current global crisis.

They predicted the current apocalyptic reality of "modern bourgeois society", of all corporate capitalist moguls which over the centuries has been conjured up by the mortal spells of private property of the means of production, of concentration and monopolization of capital, of elites who "no longer (will be) able to control the powers of the nether world":
 
In the Manifesto of the Communist Party, they wrote:

"A similar movement is going on before our own eyes. Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells." 1)

Apart from oil prices approximating 150 dollars per barrel, of world famine, of global over-production, concerning the above, by selecting topics at random, on June 13, 2008, world news had the following eerie head lines:

* United States And Russia Sack Top Generals In Preparation For Total Global War 2)

* Australia Orders Troops To Leave Iraq, Joins Call For War Crimes Charges Against US Leaders 3)

* China Orders Strike Against US For Catastrophic Earthquake 4)

* Massive US Built Space Plane ‘Blasted’ Out Of Sky Over South-East Asia 5)

* Brazil Prepares Nuclear Bomb Test To Protect Amazon Rights 6)

Really, we are vegetating in dangerous times! That this was coming, we were warned in 1848 already!

How far the Yankee sorcerer really has driven bellicose affairs, the following information from one of the articles mentioned above is witnessing. This came from the "nether world" (Marx):

"Chinese and Russian Military scientists, these reports say, are concurring with Canadian researcher, and former Asia-Pacific Bureau Chief of Forbes Magazine, Benjamin Fulford, who in a very disturbing video released from his Japanese offices to the American public, details how the United States attacked China by the firing of a Billion Million Volt Shockwave from the Americans High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facilities in Alaska. ...
Russian scientists are further speculating that the United States strike against China was ‘exactly timed’ to coincide with the dangerous experiments ongoing at Large Hadron Collider for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and which we had previously reported on in our May 13th report titled “CERN ‘Nailed Heart Of Earth’ With China Quake, Chilean Volcano”. 7)

What causes this severe global contradiction, what generates world wars, produces the the current recession, a century and a half ago, Marx and Engels already explained in the "Manifesto of the Communist Party":

"For many a decade past the history of industry and commerce is but the history of the revolt of modern productive forces against modern conditions of production, against the property relations that are the conditions for the existence of the bourgeoisie and of its rule.

In this way, from a materialist dialectical view the scientific progenitors of socialism also explained the origins of private property, religion, social classes, class rule, class struggle and history, which are basic concepts to understand the modern State, ruling class education for barbarism, capitalist ideology and practices, global disinformation campaigns and fatal, academic, intellectual alienation. Furthermore, they revealed that under capitalism not only some societies are "at risk"; on the contrary, the whole capitalist society is "on trial". Far from becoming "obsolete", long before writing and publishing "Capital", they knew that capitalism is periodically being haunted by "over-production" and that it is essentially a system of permanent, epidemic crises, in other words, that it is a murderous mode of self-destruction:

"It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodic return put the existence of the entire bourgeois society on trial, each time more threateningly. In these crises a great part not only of the existing products but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity--the epidemic of over-production." 8)

Capitalist barbarism as we experience it currently as globalization is directly linked to an over-production of goods, of physical human wares, to the elimination of physical labor forces, the only real source of surplus values, to their replacement by a galaxy of computers and machines -- which neither consume nor realize profits -- and to monopolization and concentration of capital, to progressive geometrical pauperization and famine of billions on a world scale.

"Society suddenly finds itself put bad into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed." 9)

And how does the global, capitalist bourgeoisie get over these periodic crises? By destructive, fascist, terrorist global wars:

"On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces: on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented." 10)

Precisely this world imperialism is doing now, bringing mankind on the brink of global nuclear wars.

Finally, capitalism has reached the Rubicon, the stage of globalization, of global fascism and terrorism. The United States of America, the "Empire" is just a significant part of world imperialism. The Second Conquest has begun: the military capture of strategic resources, oil, gas, biodiversity, metals and minerals, water and oxygen. All these are to be privatized and placed under the control of a single world State of global corporations. Venezuela, like Bolivia,  possesses the above in abundance and hence finds itself in the front line of global fascist attacks. All these imperialist projects of global conquest were studied, were prepared for decades already. "Think tanks", the Bilderberg group and the Club of Rome all were and are engaged theoretically and scientifically in the formulation and organization of practical strategies of immediate conquest.

Compared to other species, the only formidable weapon of mankind is its brains. It only survived because it developed thinking, thought, theory, philosophy and wisdom. About Reason, a synonym for Capital, we will not talk now. Contemporary ruling class man is the most irrational, criminal being in the galaxies.

Thinking is negating, is relating, contradicting, is searching for the flowing truth, is anticipation, emancipation. Ernst Bloch stated: Thinking is venturing beyond.

What is the negation of capitalism? What is anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, anti-terrorism? It is emancipatory theory and praxis; it is scientific and philosophic socialism, it is living Marxism.

In our schools and universities, in our mass media, not reason has fled the scene, not capital or capitalism is leaving Venezuela. World wide, the negation of capitalism, Marxism, dialectically produced by capitalism itself as its negation, is being destroyed. In this way, capitalism is destroying itself, has become an auto-destructive brainless mode of production, a productive mode of self-destruction, and therewith of man himself.

To do anything still, to think about emancipation, to venture beyond all revolutions, our youth, our students urgently should study capitalism, and therewith discover socialism, Marxism. Marxism is not a caricature, a joker, a cook book, a recipe or a panacea for all evils. It is the true negation of capitalism, it is socialism, the other side of capitalism itself. Only when capitalism has become obsolete, its negation, Marxism, will be realized and will as such fade away into the Clouds of Magellan.

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1) http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/ralph/workbook/ralprs31.htm
2) http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1106.htm
3) http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1105.htm
4) http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1104.htm
5) http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1102.htm
6) http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1101.htm
7) http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1104.htm
8) http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/ralph/workbook/ralprs31.htm
9) Ibid.
10) Ibid.
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Venezuela: Sin teoría no habrá ni partido político socialista ni vanguardia obrera de la revolución
Ensayos en Defensa del Marxismo
en la Época de la Globalización

Franz J. T. Lee
Imprenta de Mérida C. A. (IMMECA), ABRIL 2008.
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For our English-speaking readers University of Los Andes (ULA)
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(Venezuela) in Spanish and is free to download online. Each chapter
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Índice
Prefacio

1. El Nacimiento Histórico del Marxismo

2. Perspectiva Histórica del Manifiesto Comunista Viviente

3. Fermento Intelectual en Tiempos de Revolución

4. Lecciones revolucionarias del Manifiesto Comunista

5. Marx y Engels: Ideología y Propiedad Privada

6. No es el Marxismo que es obsoleto, más bien son el Estado y la propiedad privada

7. Aprendiendo de Carlos Marx: ¿Qué es la ideología?

8. ¿Cómo funciona la Ideología?

9. Los verdaderos enemigos se encuentran dentro de la revolución

10. ¡Cómo hacer 1 billón de dólares de ganancias en una semana!

11. ¡Alerta! Los fascistas están aplicando sus métodos clásicos

12. El más grande enemigo de Venezuela, del socialismo, es el capitalismo

13. Venezuela: El eslogan ¡No volverán! no es una frase vacía, sino un asunto de vida o muerte

14. Sin Teoría no habrá ni partido político socialista ni vanguardia obrera de la Revolución

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From Economic Crash to Climate Crash!
Will our great grandchildren invariably fall down the
man made cataclysmic abyss?

By Franz J. T. Lee

The global Via Crucis is getting more and more dangerous. On 27th February 2008 occurred the largest earthquake in the United Kingdom for the last 24 years with its epicenter near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. Many people reported of having seen strange bright flashes of light.
http://www.louthleader.co.uk/news/More-earthquake-light
-sightings-.3864580.j

What has such a phenomenon got to do with the dialectical laws of continuum/discontinuum, as explained by Marxism and quantum physics, with the destruction of 95% of all species on earth, of all flora and fauna, with Venezuela's biodiversity, water and oxygen, with its oil and gas, with its 'beautiful' socialist revolution?

Where is the connection between 'preventive wars', 'military humanism', Exxon-Mobil, with Colombia's Alvaro Uribe and with the warming up of the earth?

* Was the geophysical military project HAARP at work in Britain, or was it just running bezerk?

* Why lately so many tremors and earthquakes on a global scale?

Here in Mérida alone we have experienced six minor tremors (around 3.5 on the Richter scale) over the last weeks. In December 1999, during decisive elections, Venezuela was experiencing its worst 'natural' disaster in 100 years, rains and floods that killed ten thousands of peoples.

* What really struck Vargas?

* What caused the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunamis in South Asia?

* In 2005 who possibly directed the Hurricane Katrina  towards New Orleans?

* Who was testing his geophysical weapons of mass destruction, to be used in 'preventive wars', in 'military humanism'?

*Who is messing up nature, generating future catastrophes?

* In the 1960s, during the 'Cold War', did Uncle Sam already use similar prototypes of geophysical, electro-magnetic and nuclear or plutonium weapons of 'low intensity' in the Vietnam War, or lately in Falujah, in Iraq?

What have all these got to do with the zigzag and tictac of evolutionary processes, with  linear, peaceful, democratic development, as contrasted with dialectical qualitative processes, with 'continuum/discontinuum' relations, with 'modes of ''production/modes of creation' and with 'revolution/emancipation'?

Why should Venezuela reflect these processes in its revolutionary praxis and theory? Why must the people, the workers be informed, be educated to think in philosophic terms? Are we really softly being killed? At any rate, if we will not be informed, do not inform ourselves, probably we never would know why our potential great grandchildren may never see the light. More and more men are losing their fertility; what is happening to their sperms? Have our cell phones carried on our bodies something to do with this? We urgently need every single creative effort to stop the coming annihilation of life on this planet. We have no other space ship, and in all probability no another life anymore. Hence, it is imperative to defend what we have against the vandalism of rogue governments and terrorist corporatism.

Who considers the above to be crazy ideas or 'communist atheism'' should just continue to drink his Coca Cola, his  imported Black and White whiskey on the rocks of the sinking Titanic, should pay for it in US dollars, should continue to enjoy his early breakfast in the imploding Twin Towers, should drive his Hummer, his luxury vehicle, attacked by paramilitary snipers towards the bloody epicenter of the attempted April 11, 2002 coup in Venezuela.

In its latest meeting, the 'Club of Rome' called for a global dictatorship, not of the Marxist proletariat, but of world fascism. Well, leaving political double standards aside, we have a moribund one already.

Ignorance is bliss, but beware: it is folly to be wise in capitalism. Do we know why icy Greenland is turning green nowadays? Why are the polar bears dying? Why will we encounter toxic methane gas all over soon? In fact right here, in front of my nose, there outside the glacier on Pico Bolivar is becoming smaller every decade. On Plaza Bolivar, in Mérida, snow is no more falling since many decades.

Long ago already Siegfried E. Tischler has warned us that the "greenhouse-effect is starting to turn into the Venus-effect." He explained "the Countdown to Global Climate Catastrophe: when the current average CO2 content of the atmosphere of 279 ppm will have reached the
magic number of 400, the irreversible 'Venus Effect'
(as the author has termed it in his lectures)
will set in."
http://www.franzlee.org/pandemonium01139.html

If the current industrial and technological savagery continues, this 'magic' figure will be reached within the next century or so, and instead of enjoying socialism, our great grandchildren will be falling invariably down the man-made, dark, cataclysmic abyss.

Hence, also in Venezuela, the proclaimed 'new man' ... a new human being, existence and transcendence ... a human trinity urgently needs a new logic, science and philosophy to confront globalization in all its dangerous fascist spheres, to counter the lies, hoaxes and myths about President Chavez Venezuela and Latin America. Furthermore, on a global scale, by means of emancipatory discontinuity the human species has to transcend the continuum of oppressive modes of production towards the discontinuum of modes of creation and creativity.

This is not a one man's job. It is an immense, gigantic global task. Socially, in community, nationally and internationally, we have to create the necessary praxis and theory, the objective, subjective and 'transjective' conditions for this 'transvolutionary' exodus, for this emancipatory crossing of the Rubicon.

Within global capitalist barbarism there is no possibility of emancipation of the human species.

Currently we are not only witnessing an Economic Crash, far more dangerous is the Climate Crash!

To explain concretely, in simple essence, what the above is all about, let us try to stimulate our already very much strained revolutionary neurones to the highest degree of class sensorial perception and of social class consciousness. Let us focus directly on the rudimentary forms of the gigantic transhistoric task that faces enslaved mankind in this century; surely, this directly is affecting the emancipatory quo vadis of Bolivarian Socialism of the 21st century.

Historically, when a mode of production has reached its alpha and omega, that is, when it has reached the limits and limitations of its existence, then, it has already generated all its transhistoric natural tendencies, social latencies and military possibilities. Thereafter, as a specific identifiable mode of labor, as slavery, feudalism or capitalism, it begins to erode, to wither away into terrorist self-realization. At high velocity it rushes down the mortal drain of lies, immorality, corruption and bureacracy, of social and cultural decay.

As philosophers like Kant, Hegel and Marx have explained in detail long ago already, progressively our planetary reality, is becoming fully recognizable to those who still can grasp global phenomena at their very material and social roots, to those who have no other choice anymore but to become radical, to join the global emancipatory class struggle, to see history, the ruling class process of labor production, as that what it always has been: as 'total war', 'veni, vidi vici',  'full spectrum dominance', 'war of the galaxies', 'shock and awe', 'military humanism' and 'preventive wars'. that is, as a militarized mode of self-destruction, a Moloch which is destined to devour all life in the solar system.

Obviously, the global state of affairs is not in favor of any continuum of human toil and labor, of any future, of a happy end. Millions and millions of cheap, physical laborers are already thrown out of the global labor process, are already obsolete. Currently as things are developing, a post-capitalist or even a transitional, new mode of production has no future; in other words, production itself is becoming obsolete, is fading away.

Still mainly unknown spheres dawn on the micro-, meso- and macro-cosmic galactic horizons: the age of emancipatory modes of creation and creativity. These radical, extreme, principled, coming realities scare heaven and hell out of all global slave masters, clergy, nobility, capitalists, imperialists and terrorists. They are already building their 'Noah's Ark' to escape to the Moon or Mars.

Dialectics ... but also modern fractal geometry or chaos theory, bourgeois capitalist natural science and quantum physics ... informs us about the reality of 'processes' of continuum and discontinuum. For example, in physics for beginners we are being taught that the movement of a molecule dialectically can be continuum and discontinuum at the same time. On the appropriate degree, let us give another very complex example which comes from the fields of modern quantum physics and new philosophic emancipatory thought. It concerns the fragmentation or atomization of Cosmic Being, of Human Being, of physical life on planet earth, but particularly (in the concrete utopian sense of the Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch) of how to disalienate ourselves by venturing beyond the Void, beyond the capitalist gaping Chaos, towards natura naturata and natura naturans, towards creating and creative cosmic transcendence. This presupposes a radical break, a discontinuum of centuries of ruling class ideology, slave mentality, mind and thought control, social malpractices, but above all,  the destruction of all religious chains of illusion.

We do not have a millennia at our disposal to accomplish this gigantic task, but we could begin right away, our billion fold quantity could generate a tremendous creative force against a Lilliputian parasitic elitist minority.

W¡However, why do we underline the age old problem of the  continuum/discontinuum? Simply because there are scientific and philosophic reasons to know that the millennia old production process, as explained by Marxist political economy, has reached its end, its globalization. Essentially and existentially, it cannot continue anymore, it is falling into a state of fascist decay; something completely new is venturing beyond, his transcending its vale of tears, its death throes and agony.

The liberatory efforts, the social experiments, the united socialist party of Venezuela (PSUV), Bolivarian socialism, with all their praxical and theoretical shortcomings are blazing the global trails of emancipatory discontinuity, are paving the serpentine  tracks towards a still possible exodus from capitalist bondage. In this sense, the productive continuum are being surpassed by a creative discontinuum, by something totally new, original and authentic.

We are still too near to this majestic happening, we are sitting at the foot of the watch tower, on its dangerous rocks, much later sailing in the galactic ocean of zillions of possibilities, at a distance, we will see the warning light.

For millennia we have produced profits, wealth and privileges for parasites, now or never the human species as a totality has to become itself, become conscious of itself, of its creative powers. It needs no creator from on high, it is the only earthly the creator, its own creator, its creative emancipator.

Similarly, not to fall into the quagmire of world fascism, now or never, the Bolivarian Revolution, the Socialist United Party of Venezuela (PSUV) have to decide what is logical, scientific, philosophic and emancipatory socialism, what is modern class struggle. Listening carefully to the very latest speeches of President Hugo Chavez Frias, even reading between the lines, we could notice how global reality daily is carrying him towards a deeper understanding of capitalism and pretty fast he is learning central socialist maxims and profound flowing truths. There is no short cut, no easy highway to scientific, philosophic socialism. In revolutionary praxis and theory we learn what is class struggle, what is socialism.

The reasons for urgent global emancipation are manifold, for example, as already indicated, in this very century we are not necessarily heading straight towards a 'transitional epoch' from capitalism to socialism or even directly towards socialism itself. Also the religious belief of individual life after death hangs on a very slender, tender thread generated by the very transhistoric 'continuum / discontinuum' problem.

However, the infamous Bilderberg clan and the erudite 'think tanks' of corporate globalization, who meet in secret annually, are fully aware of the coming apocalyptic effects and affects of a possible nuclear 'Doomsday'; if not for us, then definitely for our children or grandchildren.

In reality, they, but also the 'Group of 8' or the 'Club of Rome', do not care about six billion precious lives on earth, for example, in the Mideast, and elsewhere, they are being massacred by the millions, and then still this global mafia, as discussed a month ago at a conference in Strasbourg, wants to finance and build a modern 'Noah's Ark' on the Moon, containing the essential ingredients of Herrenvolk 'life' and Western culture and 'civilization'; later, on 'the day after' this 'human material', this 'human capital' would be used and activated by friendly extraterrestrial saviors from outer space.

More cynical homo homini lupus, the pack of corporate imperialist werewolves and war criminal cannot be! Here on earth their bloody army boots are trampling on anything living or sacred; hypocritically they are searching  for life in their universe, probably one day to exploit even the meteors. One such capitalist has already the private property rights of owning a meteor in the solar system.

To crown it all, among other things, the following was reported from Strasbourg: "European Space Agency scientists are hoping to experiment with growing tulips on the moon within the next decade. ... could be grown in 2012 or 2015."

And yet, in spite of the 'Philadelphia Experiments' and the  'Super-Strings' theory, the European Space Agency scientists and the NASA experts, especially the giant international mass media, for example, their journalists like Jonathan Leake, still feed us with the obsolete Big Bang 'Father Christmas' myth and similar geocentrist formal logical universal 'hocus-pocus':

"A Nasa satellite has detected radiation emitted trillionths of a second after the big bang, the closest humans have got to directly observing the explosion that created the universe, writes Jonathan Leake."

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However, let us leave the "wave" and 'particle' discontinuum of the world of physics and look at the historical essence of our real problem of human survival on earth. Apart from the destruction of the ozone layer, caused by toxic industrial gases, produced in metropolitan countries, apart from artificially producing droughts and floods by means of HAARP projects, from weather and climate manipulation, by using Tesla technology, Nature itself is now acting and reacting against global capitalist exploitation and domination. Human labor and its capitalist products have played havoc with our natural space ship, are destroying its flora and fauna, our very natural habitat.

Furthermore, apart from deliberately causing countless tremors and earthquakes all over the show, apart from the production of lethal radio-active weapons and waste, also of AIDS in military laboratories, from fomenting massive mind and thought control projects; apart from all these, our greatest problem is now materialized in the age of globalization; it is the drastic climatic change on a world scale, the dramatic heating up of the planet.

The mass media do not spotlight the real causes and immediate dangers of this problem. In the very United States of America which is the main culprit of industrially producing the 'greenhouse effect' since decades the weather was never fine anymore. Yes, our problem is becoming a burning issue, it is becoming hot all over the planet.

The natural history of our planet shows that over the last three hundred million years five times the living species were endangered and large numbers perished as a result of drastic climatic changes. Biodiversity was extensive during global epochs of low temperatures, but as a result of the 'greenhouse effect' it was very low during hot and humid climatic periods. Some 250 million years ago, a record number of earthly species disappeared, about 95% of the then existing flora and fauna vanished. This was a natural disaster. Our coming disaster within the next decades is unnecessary, it is man-made, has social causes. Within a few centuries of capital accumulation ... of the existence of a dominant mode of capitalist production ... we are hell bent on destroying a process of hundreds of millions of years of the evolution of life on earth.

Of course, in prehistoric aeons the sudden death of so many species caused a drastic, dramatic discontinuum in the evolution of planetary life. Thanks to the survival of chimpanzees and pigs (they barely differ from us as far as their genetic composition is concerned) the species man  could come into existence at all.

Seen from these transhistoric dimensions, five times already the 'creation of man', the 'missing link' and the 'paragon of animals', all turned out to be simply the results of a complex dialectical (dialogical) continuum/discontinuum; of sublime transversal transcendence, of 'transvolutionary' galactic 'events'.

It becomes obvious that realities do not always develop in a straight line, that there are no absolute truths, that the acquisition of true knowledge is a humble social don, that the development of one mode of production after the other is not eternal. Galactic modes can surpass towards other spheres, for example, towards modes of creation, creativity or emancipation. Of course, they have no objective or 'transjective' relation to nirvana, hades, limbo, purgatory, hell or heaven.

Let us see how real is the threat of human extinction on earth. Generally, to know the truth about historical reality, we should just study the acts of the ruling classes, they know what real dangers are facing their class interests.
In a recent work, published in the review "Proceedings of the Royal Society", a British scientist warns that at the current speed of heating up the planet within one or two centuries we would reach a similar stage of Armaggedon in which 95% of our already endangered species, that is, all our flora and fauna, including homo sapiens sapiens itself, inexorably could perish.

This is not a problem that will face us in a million years from now on, it is a danger that is confronting us now already, at most, within the next two generations, within 100 to 200 years.
http://www.cadenaglobal.com/Noticias/?Not=169306

Thus, the real danger facing mankind is not only Bush, not the 'Empire', also not 'Exxon Mobil', it is global capitalism in its totality, globalized fascism. With few exceptions, apart from the vicious imperialist attacks, the major error of most past social and socialist revolutions was that they were not constantly ab ovo anti-capitalist, not principally armed with living Marxist praxis and theory. Surely all social movements have their historic rights, their heroic leaders,  they have their historic place and time, but finding ourselves at the doorstep of apocalyptic doom, extreme radical measures have to be taken. In this case we have to take up all the arms that proletarian world struggles have already  created for us. Till today the rulers use their idealist and theological arms and beliefs produced by Plato, Aristotle, the Neo-Platonists, the Fathers of the Church, Christianity and the Spanish Inquisition against the rebelling workers and slaves, against the 'speaking tools'.  Without the absolute truths of the above no mind and thought control mechanism would ever function. The easiest thing to be manipulated by the international mass media is a superstitious or staunch religious mind. The most complicated mind to bamboozle is a praxical and theoretical socialist mind. However, this class consciousness must come from the revolutionary workers themselves. Any liberatory or revolutionary tendency should never suppress their rebelling spirit and concrete resistance against local and national capitalism. One thing is very clear: gone are the time and space of mass prayers, of divine rituals and religion, of peace corps, of class alliances with our butchers, of truth commissions and confessions to our church oligarchs, of gentlemen agreements, of eternal dialogues. Capitalism has set loose underworld forces, natural processes and social decay which it can't control, can't stop anymore. For the corporate moguls and war mongrels the global situation is a real S.O.S. for the billions of workers it is really 'May Day! May Day!' For the metropolitan middle classes with their arrogant petit-bourgeois attitude, it is now already 'Bye, Bye! Home, Sweet Home!.

Currently, with its HAARP projects, with its arsenals of geophysical weapons of mass destruction, the USA (and its Allies, Britain, Israel, Colombia, etc.)  is again opening the nuclear Pandora Box, the Black Box of global fascism. In the current continuum of workers resistance, of classical national and international class struggles, we may somehow decelerate  or deviate the process of capitalist decomposition. In Colombia we are witnessing our 'Hobson's choice'; after half a century of civil war, neither Uribe, supported by the USA, nor the revolutionary movement, the FARC, has a real chance of total victory.

On top of all this, we know that we just do not have 500 years left to peacefully develop all kinds of ideological, moral, cultural, educational and military arms that could effectively stop all the capitalist physical and mental onslaughts which daily are becoming more sophisticated. Of course, we can learn many things from the operations of our class enemies, from Christian religion, from ruling class ideology, but also from Marxist political economy.

Time and space are relative categories; according to the brilliant philosophers Kant and Hegel, in reality, in objective reality, in nature, they do not even exist. They are just inventions of the human mind, of the labor process, of the accumulation of capital. If this should be true, then the problems of emancipation take on other dimensions. In the 1960s when the Africans of Southern Africa were engaged in a bitter struggle of liberation against their white apartheid masters, we witnessed a most interesting phenomenon.

In northern Namibia and southern Angola, within the vicious class struggle, still existing peoples, dating back to the Stone Age, back to about 20 000 B.C., the San and Khoikhoin from the Namib and Kalahari deserts exchanged their traditional bows and arrows for modern FN automatic rifles, which were captured from the white soldiers and mercenaries. They entered the battle and together with their other comrades, including the Cuban guerrillas, all together won the political independence of Namibia and Angola, and therewith of all Southern Africa.

When a so-called 'Bushman' could help to topple modern apartheid, with its nuclear weapons, why can't we do it with Bush, with the 'Bush Man' in the White House?

What more could we learn?

* After centuries of an education for barbarism, to save themselves consciously, to free themselves, six billion working peoples have to know the truth, the scientific truth about global capitalism.

* Of course, we surely love Simon Bolivar, we love Karl Marx, the truth we love even more.

* In history no ruling class ever stepped down peacefully from its capitalist throne. It fell down as a result of  class struggle.

* Our Latin American biodiversity, our water and oxygen will soon have a greater value than black or white gold. Venezuelan reality is not and will not be the exception to this golden rule of violent class struggle against imperialist terrorism. In fact, the last decade has already verified this reality.

* Also, as Georges Sorel, Frantz Omar Fanon and Maurice Merleau-Ponty have reminded us: we are born in social violence, we live and die in capitalist violence, as ordained by the ruling class State, that is, as working outcasts across the planet we are being murdered every minute by social order.  Hence what is the 'peaceful revolution' all about? Who is kidding who? All along the past two millennia there was not a single 'peaceful' year in and around Europe. We even registered a 'Thousand Year War' in the region.

* Marxist dialectics teach us that the opposite, the negation of social violence, is not world peace, it is militant, optimistic global emancipation; Marx called this 'human emancipation'.

All these truths we can only learn in the actual global master-slave relations, in the class struggle itself.

To acquire real praxis and theory which could transcend global  capitalist misery, we need an emancipatory exodus, an 'exvolution', a discontinuation of past productive processes. We need to break away from the economic base and ideological superstructure of the capitalist mode of production, of the reproductive forces of the very same old system, that permanently 'renews', revolutionizes itself as a mode of production, as the labor process on an ever higher dialectical spiral plane, as intensified master-slave class relations, as virulent exploitation, pandemic domination, blatant racism, genocidal militarization and cossified alienation.

These are themes that concern the immediate praxis and theory of a revolutionary socialist workers party, as the vanguard of global class struggle. These things have to enter our political program, have to become tactics and strategy. .

As such, our current mode of production, ... as explained by Marx in all his politico-economic writings, and enriched by other Marxist works, by means of the tendential laws of  development of capitalism, competition, concentration, centralization, merging, etc., ... capitalism is approximating the dangerous limits of its organic composition and growth, thus causing over-production, progressive global pauperization, falling rates of profits, severe crises, recession, depression, wars  and fascism. Unless we discontinue this savagery, what will be left after the agony of world imperialism, as Albert Einstein predicted, will drive us into radio-active caves, and then we could start all over again by swinging clubs in the Fourth World War.

In the meantime, the heart-beat of capitalism, its bourgeois democratic revolution, as predicted in the Manifesto of the Communist Party, has reached its goal, globalization, and therewith its end, its materialization, the end of physical labor, the end of all modes of production, ushering in new modes on the emancipatory horizon, in the creative spheres of discontinuity.

It is not Marxism, scientific praxis, philosophic theory and emancipatory wisdom which are becoming obsolete, rather it is capitalism itself, including its French and Industrial Revolutions.

Finally, these philosophic reflections are just blazing the trail, light up the  the sublime heights that have to be taken into consideration if we are really interested in anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, socialist and communist emancipation.    



*****

From Economic Crash to Climate Crash!
Will our great grandchildren invariably fall down the
man made cataclysmic abyss?

By Franz J. T. Lee

The global Via Crucis is getting more and more dangerous. On 27th February 2008 occurred the largest earthquake in the United Kingdom for the last 24 years with its epicenter near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. Many people reported of having seen strange bright flashes of light.
http://www.louthleader.co.uk/news/More-earthquake-light
-sightings-.3864580.j

What has such a phenomenon got to do with the dialectical laws of continuum/discontinuum, as explained by Marxism and quantum physics, with the destruction of 95% of all species on earth, of all flora and fauna, with Venezuela's biodiversity, water and oxygen, with its oil and gas, with its 'beautiful' socialist revolution?

Where is the connection between 'preventive wars', 'military humanism', Exxon-Mobil, with Colombia's Alvaro Uribe and with the warming up of the earth?

* Was the geophysical military project HAARP at work in Britain, or was it just running bezerk?

* Why lately so many tremors and earthquakes on a global scale?

Here in Mérida alone we have experienced six minor tremors (around 3.5 on the Richter scale) over the last weeks. In December 1999, during decisive elections, Venezuela was experiencing its worst 'natural' disaster in 100 years, rains and floods that killed ten thousands of peoples.

* What really struck Vargas?

* What caused the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunamis in South Asia?

* In 2005 who possibly directed the Hurricane Katrina  towards New Orleans?

* Who was testing his geophysical weapons of mass destruction, to be used in 'preventive wars', in 'military humanism'?

*Who is messing up nature, generating future catastrophes?

* In the 1960s, during the 'Cold War', did Uncle Sam already use similar prototypes of geophysical, electro-magnetic and nuclear or plutonium weapons of 'low intensity' in the Vietnam War, or lately in Falujah, in Iraq?

What have all these got to do with the zigzag and tictac of evolutionary processes, with  linear, peaceful, democratic development, as contrasted with dialectical qualitative processes, with 'continuum/discontinuum' relations, with 'modes of ''production/modes of creation' and with 'revolution/emancipation'?

Why should Venezuela reflect these processes in its revolutionary praxis and theory? Why must the people, the workers be informed, be educated to think in philosophic terms? Are we really softly being killed? At any rate, if we will not be informed, do not inform ourselves, probably we never would know why our potential great grandchildren may never see the light. More and more men are losing their fertility; what is happening to their sperms? Have our cell phones carried on our bodies something to do with this? We urgently need every single creative effort to stop the coming annihilation of life on this planet. We have no other space ship, and in all probability no another life anymore. Hence, it is imperative to defend what we have against the vandalism of rogue governments and terrorist corporatism.

Who considers the above to be crazy ideas or 'communist atheism'' should just continue to drink his Coca Cola, his  imported Black and White whiskey on the rocks of the sinking Titanic, should pay for it in US dollars, should continue to enjoy his early breakfast in the imploding Twin Towers, should drive his Hummer, his luxury vehicle, attacked by paramilitary snipers towards the bloody epicenter of the attempted April 11, 2002 coup in Venezuela.

In its latest meeting, the 'Club of Rome' called for a global dictatorship, not of the Marxist proletariat, but of world fascism. Well, leaving political double standards aside, we have a moribund one already.

Ignorance is bliss, but beware: it is folly to be wise in capitalism. Do we know why icy Greenland is turning green nowadays? Why are the polar bears dying? Why will we encounter toxic methane gas all over soon? In fact right here, in front of my nose, there outside the glacier on Pico Bolivar is becoming smaller every decade. On Plaza Bolivar, in Mérida, snow is no more falling since many decades.

Long ago already Siegfried E. Tischler has warned us that the "greenhouse-effect is starting to turn into the Venus-effect." He explained "the Countdown to Global Climate Catastrophe: when the current average CO2 content of the atmosphere of 279 ppm will have reached the
magic number of 400, the irreversible 'Venus Effect'
(as the author has termed it in his lectures)
will set in."
http://www.franzlee.org/pandemonium01139.html

If the current industrial and technological savagery continues, this 'magic' figure will be reached within the next century or so, and instead of enjoying socialism, our great grandchildren will be falling invariably down the man-made, dark, cataclysmic abyss.

Hence, also in Venezuela, the proclaimed 'new man' ... a new human being, existence and transcendence ... a human trinity urgently needs a new logic, science and philosophy to confront globalization in all its dangerous fascist spheres, to counter the lies, hoaxes and myths about President Chavez Venezuela and Latin America. Furthermore, on a global scale, by means of emancipatory discontinuity the human species has to transcend the continuum of oppressive modes of production towards the discontinuum of modes of creation and creativity.

This is not a one man's job. It is an immense, gigantic global task. Socially, in community, nationally and internationally, we have to create the necessary praxis and theory, the objective, subjective and 'transjective' conditions for this 'transvolutionary' exodus, for this emancipatory crossing of the Rubicon.

Within global capitalist barbarism there is no possibility of emancipation of the human species.

Currently we are not only witnessing an Economic Crash, far more dangerous is the Climate Crash!

To explain concretely, in simple essence, what the above is all about, let us try to stimulate our already very much strained revolutionary neurones to the highest degree of class sensorial perception and of social class consciousness. Let us focus directly on the rudimentary forms of the gigantic transhistoric task that faces enslaved mankind in this century; surely, this directly is affecting the emancipatory quo vadis of Bolivarian Socialism of the 21st century.

Historically, when a mode of production has reached its alpha and omega, that is, when it has reached the limits and limitations of its existence, then, it has already generated all its transhistoric natural tendencies, social latencies and military possibilities. Thereafter, as a specific identifiable mode of labor, as slavery, feudalism or capitalism, it begins to erode, to wither away into terrorist self-realization. At high velocity it rushes down the mortal drain of lies, immorality, corruption and bureacracy, of social and cultural decay.

As philosophers like Kant, Hegel and Marx have explained in detail long ago already, progressively our planetary reality, is becoming fully recognizable to those who still can grasp global phenomena at their very material and social roots, to those who have no other choice anymore but to become radical, to join the global emancipatory class struggle, to see history, the ruling class process of labor production, as that what it always has been: as 'total war', 'veni, vidi vici',  'full spectrum dominance', 'war of the galaxies', 'shock and awe', 'military humanism' and 'preventive wars'. that is, as a militarized mode of self-destruction, a Moloch which is destined to devour all life in the solar system.

Obviously, the global state of affairs is not in favor of any continuum of human toil and labor, of any future, of a happy end. Millions and millions of cheap, physical laborers are already thrown out of the global labor process, are already obsolete. Currently as things are developing, a post-capitalist or even a transitional, new mode of production has no future; in other words, production itself is becoming obsolete, is fading away.

Still mainly unknown spheres dawn on the micro-, meso- and macro-cosmic galactic horizons: the age of emancipatory modes of creation and creativity. These radical, extreme, principled, coming realities scare heaven and hell out of all global slave masters, clergy, nobility, capitalists, imperialists and terrorists. They are already building their 'Noah's Ark' to escape to the Moon or Mars.

Dialectics ... but also modern fractal geometry or chaos theory, bourgeois capitalist natural science and quantum physics ... informs us about the reality of 'processes' of continuum and discontinuum. For example, in physics for beginners we are being taught that the movement of a molecule dialectically can be continuum and discontinuum at the same time. On the appropriate degree, let us give another very complex example which comes from the fields of modern quantum physics and new philosophic emancipatory thought. It concerns the fragmentation or atomization of Cosmic Being, of Human Being, of physical life on planet earth, but particularly (in the concrete utopian sense of the Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch) of how to disalienate ourselves by venturing beyond the Void, beyond the capitalist gaping Chaos, towards natura naturata and natura naturans, towards creating and creative cosmic transcendence. This presupposes a radical break, a discontinuum of centuries of ruling class ideology, slave mentality, mind and thought control, social malpractices, but above all,  the destruction of all religious chains of illusion.

We do not have a millennia at our disposal to accomplish this gigantic task, but we could begin right away, our billion fold quantity could generate a tremendous creative force against a Lilliputian parasitic elitist minority.

W¡However, why do we underline the age old problem of the  continuum/discontinuum? Simply because there are scientific and philosophic reasons to know that the millennia old production process, as explained by Marxist political economy, has reached its end, its globalization. Essentially and existentially, it cannot continue anymore, it is falling into a state of fascist decay; something completely new is venturing beyond, his transcending its vale of tears, its death throes and agony.

The liberatory efforts, the social experiments, the united socialist party of Venezuela (PSUV), Bolivarian socialism, with all their praxical and theoretical shortcomings are blazing the global trails of emancipatory discontinuity, are paving the serpentine  tracks towards a still possible exodus from capitalist bondage. In this sense, the productive continuum are being surpassed by a creative discontinuum, by something totally new, original and authentic.

We are still too near to this majestic happening, we are sitting at the foot of the watch tower, on its dangerous rocks, much later sailing in the galactic ocean of zillions of possibilities, at a distance, we will see the warning light.

For millennia we have produced profits, wealth and privileges for parasites, now or never the human species as a totality has to become itself, become conscious of itself, of its creative powers. It needs no creator from on high, it is the only earthly the creator, its own creator, its creative emancipator.

Similarly, not to fall into the quagmire of world fascism, now or never, the Bolivarian Revolution, the Socialist United Party of Venezuela (PSUV) have to decide what is logical, scientific, philosophic and emancipatory socialism, what is modern class struggle. Listening carefully to the very latest speeches of President Hugo Chavez Frias, even reading between the lines, we could notice how global reality daily is carrying him towards a deeper understanding of capitalism and pretty fast he is learning central socialist maxims and profound flowing truths. There is no short cut, no easy highway to scientific, philosophic socialism. In revolutionary praxis and theory we learn what is class struggle, what is socialism.

The reasons for urgent global emancipation are manifold, for example, as already indicated, in this very century we are not necessarily heading straight towards a 'transitional epoch' from capitalism to socialism or even directly towards socialism itself. Also the religious belief of individual life after death hangs on a very slender, tender thread generated by the very transhistoric 'continuum / discontinuum' problem.

However, the infamous Bilderberg clan and the erudite 'think tanks' of corporate globalization, who meet in secret annually, are fully aware of the coming apocalyptic effects and affects of a possible nuclear 'Doomsday'; if not for us, then definitely for our children or grandchildren.

In reality, they, but also the 'Group of 8' or the 'Club of Rome', do not care about six billion precious lives on earth, for example, in the Mideast, and elsewhere, they are being massacred by the millions, and then still this global mafia, as discussed a month ago at a conference in Strasbourg, wants to finance and build a modern 'Noah's Ark' on the Moon, containing the essential ingredients of Herrenvolk 'life' and Western culture and 'civilization'; later, on 'the day after' this 'human material', this 'human capital' would be used and activated by friendly extraterrestrial saviors from outer space.

More cynical homo homini lupus, the pack of corporate imperialist werewolves and war criminal cannot be! Here on earth their bloody army boots are trampling on anything living or sacred; hypocritically they are searching  for life in their universe, probably one day to exploit even the meteors. One such capitalist has already the private property rights of owning a meteor in the solar system.

To crown it all, among other things, the following was reported from Strasbourg: "European Space Agency scientists are hoping to experiment with growing tulips on the moon within the next decade. ... could be grown in 2012 or 2015."

And yet, in spite of the 'Philadelphia Experiments' and the  'Super-Strings' theory, the European Space Agency scientists and the NASA experts, especially the giant international mass media, for example, their journalists like Jonathan Leake, still feed us with the obsolete Big Bang 'Father Christmas' myth and similar geocentrist formal logical universal 'hocus-pocus':

"A Nasa satellite has detected radiation emitted trillionths of a second after the big bang, the closest humans have got to directly observing the explosion that created the universe, writes Jonathan Leake."

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However, let us leave the "wave" and 'particle' discontinuum of the world of physics and look at the historical essence of our real problem of human survival on earth. Apart from the destruction of the ozone layer, caused by toxic industrial gases, produced in metropolitan countries, apart from artificially producing droughts and floods by means of HAARP projects, from weather and climate manipulation, by using Tesla technology, Nature itself is now acting and reacting against global capitalist exploitation and domination. Human labor and its capitalist products have played havoc with our natural space ship, are destroying its flora and fauna, our very natural habitat.

Furthermore, apart from deliberately causing countless tremors and earthquakes all over the show, apart from the production of lethal radio-active weapons and waste, also of AIDS in military laboratories, from fomenting massive mind and thought control projects; apart from all these, our greatest problem is now materialized in the age of globalization; it is the drastic climatic change on a world scale, the dramatic heating up of the planet.

The mass media do not spotlight the real causes and immediate dangers of this problem. In the very United States of America which is the main culprit of industrially producing the 'greenhouse effect' since decades the weather was never fine anymore. Yes, our problem is becoming a burning issue, it is becoming hot all over the planet.

The natural history of our planet shows that over the last three hundred million years five times the living species were endangered and large numbers perished as a result of drastic climatic changes. Biodiversity was extensive during global epochs of low temperatures, but as a result of the 'greenhouse effect' it was very low during hot and humid climatic periods. Some 250 million years ago, a record number of earthly species disappeared, about 95% of the then existing flora and fauna vanished. This was a natural disaster. Our coming disaster within the next decades is unnecessary, it is man-made, has social causes. Within a few centuries of capital accumulation ... of the existence of a dominant mode of capitalist production ... we are hell bent on destroying a process of hundreds of millions of years of the evolution of life on earth.

Of course, in prehistoric aeons the sudden death of so many species caused a drastic, dramatic discontinuum in the evolution of planetary life. Thanks to the survival of chimpanzees and pigs (they barely differ from us as far as their genetic composition is concerned) the species man  could come into existence at all.

Seen from these transhistoric dimensions, five times already the 'creation of man', the 'missing link' and the 'paragon of animals', all turned out to be simply the results of a complex dialectical (dialogical) continuum/discontinuum; of sublime transversal transcendence, of 'transvolutionary' galactic 'events'.

It becomes obvious that realities do not always develop in a straight line, that there are no absolute truths, that the acquisition of true knowledge is a humble social don, that the development of one mode of production after the other is not eternal. Galactic modes can surpass towards other spheres, for example, towards modes of creation, creativity or emancipation. Of course, they have no objective or 'transjective' relation to nirvana, hades, limbo, purgatory, hell or heaven.

Let us see how real is the threat of human extinction on earth. Generally, to know the truth about historical reality, we should just study the acts of the ruling classes, they know what real dangers are facing their class interests.
In a recent work, published in the review "Proceedings of the Royal Society", a British scientist warns that at the current speed of heating up the planet within one or two centuries we would reach a similar stage of Armaggedon in which 95% of our already endangered species, that is, all our flora and fauna, including homo sapiens sapiens itself, inexorably could perish.

This is not a problem that will face us in a million years from now on, it is a danger that is confronting us now already, at most, within the next two generations, within 100 to 200 years.
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Thus, the real danger facing mankind is not only Bush, not the 'Empire', also not 'Exxon Mobil', it is global capitalism in its totality, globalized fascism. With few exceptions, apart from the vicious imperialist attacks, the major error of most past social and socialist revolutions was that they were not constantly ab ovo anti-capitalist, not principally armed with living Marxist praxis and theory. Surely all social movements have their historic rights, their heroic leaders,  they have their historic place and time, but finding ourselves at the doorstep of apocalyptic doom, extreme radical measures have to be taken. In this case we have to take up all the arms that proletarian world struggles have already  created for us. Till today the rulers use their idealist and theological arms and beliefs produced by Plato, Aristotle, the Neo-Platonists, the Fathers of the Church, Christianity and the Spanish Inquisition against the rebelling workers and slaves, against the 'speaking tools'.  Without the absolute truths of the above no mind and thought control mechanism would ever function. The easiest thing to be manipulated by the international mass media is a superstitious or staunch religious mind. The most complicated mind to bamboozle is a praxical and theoretical socialist mind. However, this class consciousness must come from the revolutionary workers themselves. Any liberatory or revolutionary tendency should never suppress their rebelling spirit and concrete resistance against local and national capitalism. One thing is very clear: gone are the time and space of mass prayers, of divine rituals and religion, of peace corps, of class alliances with our butchers, of truth commissions and confessions to our church oligarchs, of gentlemen agreements, of eternal dialogues. Capitalism has set loose underworld forces, natural processes and social decay which it can't control, can't stop anymore. For the corporate moguls and war mongrels the global situation is a real S.O.S. for the billions of workers it is really 'May Day! May Day!' For the metropolitan middle classes with their arrogant petit-bourgeois attitude, it is now already 'Bye, Bye! Home, Sweet Home!.

Currently, with its HAARP projects, with its arsenals of geophysical weapons of mass destruction, the USA (and its Allies, Britain, Israel, Colombia, etc.)  is again opening the nuclear Pandora Box, the Black Box of global fascism. In the current continuum of workers resistance, of classical national and international class struggles, we may somehow decelerate  or deviate the process of capitalist decomposition. In Colombia we are witnessing our 'Hobson's choice'; after half a century of civil war, neither Uribe, supported by the USA, nor the revolutionary movement, the FARC, has a real chance of total victory.

On top of all this, we know that we just do not have 500 years left to peacefully develop all kinds of ideological, moral, cultural, educational and military arms that could effectively stop all the capitalist physical and mental onslaughts which daily are becoming more sophisticated. Of course, we can learn many things from the operations of our class enemies, from Christian religion, from ruling class ideology, but also from Marxist political economy.

Time and space are relative categories; according to the brilliant philosophers Kant and Hegel, in reality, in objective reality, in nature, they do not even exist. They are just inventions of the human mind, of the labor process, of the accumulation of capital. If this should be true, then the problems of emancipation take on other dimensions. In the 1960s when the Africans of Southern Africa were engaged in a bitter struggle of liberation against their white apartheid masters, we witnessed a most interesting phenomenon.

In northern Namibia and southern Angola, within the vicious class struggle, still existing peoples, dating back to the Stone Age, back to about 20 000 B.C., the San and Khoikhoin from the Namib and Kalahari deserts exchanged their traditional bows and arrows for modern FN automatic rifles, which were captured from the white soldiers and mercenaries. They entered the battle and together with their other comrades, including the Cuban guerrillas, all together won the political independence of Namibia and Angola, and therewith of all Southern Africa.

When a so-called 'Bushman' could help to topple modern apartheid, with its nuclear weapons, why can't we do it with Bush, with the 'Bush Man' in the White House?

What more could we learn?

* After centuries of an education for barbarism, to save themselves consciously, to free themselves, six billion working peoples have to know the truth, the scientific truth about global capitalism.

* Of course, we surely love Simon Bolivar, we love Karl Marx, the truth we love even more.

* In history no ruling class ever stepped down peacefully from its capitalist throne. It fell down as a result of  class struggle.

* Our Latin American biodiversity, our water and oxygen will soon have a greater value than black or white gold. Venezuelan reality is not and will not be the exception to this golden rule of violent class struggle against imperialist terrorism. In fact, the last decade has already verified this reality.

* Also, as Georges Sorel, Frantz Omar Fanon and Maurice Merleau-Ponty have reminded us: we are born in social violence, we live and die in capitalist violence, as ordained by the ruling class State, that is, as working outcasts across the planet we are being murdered every minute by social order.  Hence what is the 'peaceful revolution' all about? Who is kidding who? All along the past two millennia there was not a single 'peaceful' year in and around Europe. We even registered a 'Thousand Year War' in the region.

* Marxist dialectics teach us that the opposite, the negation of social violence, is not world peace, it is militant, optimistic global emancipation; Marx called this 'human emancipation'.

All these truths we can only learn in the actual global master-slave relations, in the class struggle itself.

To acquire real praxis and theory which could transcend global  capitalist misery, we need an emancipatory exodus, an 'exvolution', a discontinuation of past productive processes. We need to break away from the economic base and ideological superstructure of the capitalist mode of production, of the reproductive forces of the very same old system, that permanently 'renews', revolutionizes itself as a mode of production, as the labor process on an ever higher dialectical spiral plane, as intensified master-slave class relations, as virulent exploitation, pandemic domination, blatant racism, genocidal militarization and cossified alienation.

These are themes that concern the immediate praxis and theory of a revolutionary socialist workers party, as the vanguard of global class struggle. These things have to enter our political program, have to become tactics and strategy. .

As such, our current mode of production, ... as explained by Marx in all his politico-economic writings, and enriched by other Marxist works, by means of the tendential laws of  development of capitalism, competition, concentration, centralization, merging, etc., ... capitalism is approximating the dangerous limits of its organic composition and growth, thus causing over-production, progressive global pauperization, falling rates of profits, severe crises, recession, depression, wars  and fascism. Unless we discontinue this savagery, what will be left after the agony of world imperialism, as Albert Einstein predicted, will drive us into radio-active caves, and then we could start all over again by swinging clubs in the Fourth World War.

In the meantime, the heart-beat of capitalism, its bourgeois democratic revolution, as predicted in the Manifesto of the Communist Party, has reached its goal, globalization, and therewith its end, its materialization, the end of physical labor, the end of all modes of production, ushering in new modes on the emancipatory horizon, in the creative spheres of discontinuity.

It is not Marxism, scientific praxis, philosophic theory and emancipatory wisdom which are becoming obsolete, rather it is capitalism itself, including its French and Industrial Revolutions.

Finally, these philosophic reflections are just blazing the trail, light up the  the sublime heights that have to be taken into consideration if we are really interested in anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, socialist and communist emancipation.     

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Sunday, February 3, 2008
CAMPAÑA DE CALUMNIAS CONTRA VENEZUELA PRELUDIO DE UNA INVASION COLOMBIANA APADRINADA POR ESTADOS UNIDOS

CAMPAÑA DE CALUMNIAS CONTRA VENEZUELA PRELUDIO DE UNA INVASION COLOMBIANA APADRINADA POR ESTADOS UNIDOS

Se trata de una vieja artimaña utilizada por toda potencia extranjera invasora. Antes de eliminar físicamente a su enemigo, se tienen que 'ganar las mentes y los corazones' de su propia opinión publica, de sus cómplices (en este caso Colombia, su liderazgo y sus fuerzas armadas fuertemente equipadas con dólares norteamericanos) y de los propios invadidos, para legitimar y facilitar la agresión.

Por Jesus Nery Barrios

La campaña ya lleva 9 años y esta llegando a su penúltima etapa, individualizándose en el liderazgo político venezolano, anunciando una inminente invasión militar de Colombia sobre territorio venezolano, orquestada y financiada por los Estados Unidos de America con un único objetivo: el petróleo venezolano que se haya bajo el estado Zulia, gobernado por el dirigente opositor Manuel Rosales, aliado declarado de los neoconservadores dirigidos por la familia Bush y las grandes empresas petroleras (Exxon Mobil y Conoco Philips, que quieren revancha por haber sido sacadas de la Faja del Orinoco), traidor a su patria y quien ha proporcionado toda la logística necesaria para sembrar de paramilitares (oportunamente desmovilizados el año 2006) a toda la entidad bajo su cargo y también para su traslado a puntos estratégicos y vitales para la seguridad nacional.

Esta brutal campaña para el lavado de cerebro de millones de personas en todo el mundo ya se utilizo con gran eficacia en Afganistán en contra de Al-Qaeda y Osama Bin Laden y de Saddam Hussein y el liderazgo del Partido Baath Árabe Socialista, en el poder en Irak desde los años 50 del siglo pasado. En el caso de Afganistán la trama estaba conectada con el 'atentado' a las Torres Gemelas perpetrado por el mismo gobierno de Bush para generar la justificación necesaria para la invasión, mientras que la de Irak lo estaba con las 'armas de destrucción masiva', cuentos chinos que incluso muchísimos 'bolivarianos' creen hasta hoy día.

Todos recuerdan las viejas fotos y videos de Bin Laden y sus edecanes escondidos en sus cuevas 'planificando' los ataques, distribuidos a todas las policías del mundo junto con la respectiva carga de estiércol sobre sus personas para pintarlos como monstruos peludos y malolientes que solo abrigaban odio en sus corazones y, por lo tanto, merecían ser perseguidos y aniquilados a costa de lo que fuera.

también hay que resaltar las fotos de los ministros de Hussein y la de el mismo enmarcada en unos naipes en los que se escribía su nombre, cargo, características físicas y la recompensa ofrecida por Estados Unidos por aportar datos sobre sus paraderos, una vez consumada la invasión y ellos se hallaban escondidos o huyendo.

En el caso venezolano es Colombia la escogida por los neoconservadores petroleros en el poder en los Estados Unidos (sin importar quien ocupe la Casa Blanca) para que les haga el trabajo sucio pues se hallan estancados en Irak y Afganistán y la cosa se pone peluda en Irán y Pakistán, así como también dentro de su propio país, atrapado en una recesión económica mas que evidente y que sus perros mediáticos (CNN y Fox News) ya no pueden tapar; dándole los últimos toques a su maquinaria bélica largamente equipada y entrenada por ellos justamente para este momento en que nos encontramos: una crisis económica global y con las reservas petroleras mundiales agotándose aceleradamente.

Es precisamente desde los medios de difamación colombianos de donde proviene la despiadada avalancha de calumnias contra el gobierno y los lideres políticos venezolanos destinada a desprestigiarlos mundialmente hasta el punto de convertirlos en monstruos asquerosos que merecen ser borrados de la faz de la Tierra, en donde los herederos de la Nueva Granada, autonombrados y pintados como los buenos de la película, sean los héroes predestinados a librar al mundo de semejante 'plaga'. A Irak también le sembraron personas y cosas en su territorio para incriminarlo. A Afganistán también lo difamaron públicamente denunciando a los talibanes como intervencionistas que se entrometían en los asuntos internos de sus países vecinos, promoviendo el terrorismo, traficando con armas, drogas, humanos, etc., etc., hasta que, finalmente, sobrevinieron las invasiones y el genocidio mas grande (hasta ahora) que haya conocido la humanidad.

Pero la tarea no esta completa. Todavía hay países en este mundo esperando ser invadidos por los Estados Unidos de America, y el factor común que los une es el petróleo, el agua, el uranio y demás recursos naturales estratégicos que poseen. Ahora le toca el turno a Venezuela, mañana serán Bolivia y Nigeria. Los venezolanos que a lo largo de los años ignoraron aquellas campañas y los destinos de aquellos pueblos por indiferencia, racismo o apatía ahora vivirán en carne propia el ser victimas del descrédito, ser señalados con el dedo por una 'opinión publica' mundial manipulada y controlada mentalmente por los medios de comunicación corporativos capitalistas, que ya nos acusa de 'narcotraficantes', 'terroristas', 'drogadictos', 'comunistas', tal y como lo hicieron y lo siguen haciendo con Cuba, Indonesia, Afganistán, Irak, Palestina y la misma Colombia.

Tal vez si en el pasado hubiéramos sido mas solidarios con esas causas hubiéramos aprendido mas de sus ejemplos históricos y hoy en día tendríamos la moral suficiente para pedirles a los pueblos del mundo que no crean todas las calumnias que se están divulgando sobre los venezolanos y sus lideres democráticamente electos. Si lo hubiéramos hecho a tiempo tal vez no estaríamos tan solos como ya lo están los palestinos, cubanos, iraquíes, afganos que han muerto y seguirán muriendo mientras el mundo entero sigue con sus patéticas y decadentes vidas consumistas, como si nada estuviera pasando.

La única forma de desactivar permanentemente todas las amenazas bélicas y ambientales que actualmente acechan al mundo es activando el internacionalismo proletario que no solo promueva la lucha solidaria concreta por Venezuela, sino la de los venezolanos por todas las causas obreras del mundo, pues solo los obreros (quienes al fin y al cabo son los que generan la riqueza) podrán salvar a la clase obrera, la mayoría que habita este atribulado planeta.

Jesus Nery Barrios
chuchonery@gmail.com

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De Las Verdades de Miguel No. 186

De Las Verdades de Miguel No. 186
Desde Trafalgar Square
Patrick J. O'Donoghue
Patrick.vheadline@gmail.com
Luego de un mes en Venezuela visitando amigos y familiares, uno regresa al mundo occidental con muchas impresiones.
Esperaba ver muchas demostraciones de conciencia pero a decir verdad, quedé un poco decepcionado. A raíz de la derrota del 2 de diciembre, noté una predisposición a la crítica entre los que apoyan el proceso. De igual manera, encontré una especie de euforia entre los que oponen a Chávez. La página web aporrea.org ha tomado el liderazgo en la promoción del debate y la crítica. En otras palabras, se ha convertido en el termómetro del nivel de discusión y crítica dentro del movimiento. Es una señal positiva que contrarresta a las declaraciones de los comentaristas de pacotilla.
Otra cosa que me llamó la atención después de estar ausente por dos años fueron las colas: Más carros, más desorden y menos soluciones. Pasé parte de mi estadía en un pueblito de la costa donde vive la familia de mi señora. Todo el mundo comentaba sobre las colas que formaban la gente regresando de las playas las cuales bloqueaban el paso de la gente del pueblo que regresaba a sus casas después del trabajo. Yo mismo experimenté una cola de una hora en el camino del pueblo a la cuidad. Lo insólito es que los fiscales de tránsito brillaron por su ausencia.
Quiero agradecer la atención médica de dos Centros de Diagnostico Integral (CDI), uno en Araure, Portuguesa y el otro en Puerto Cabello, estado Carabobo. Los doctores cubanos José Luís, jefe del CDI en la Villa de Pilar y Lázaro Aray quien trabaja en el CDI situado al lado del terminal de pasajeros en el Puerto me trataron por unas dolencias. Quedé gratamente impresionado con la facilidad y fluidez de las consultas. Espero ver algún día a jóvenes médicos venezolanos trabajando con la misma entrega.
Algo que experimenté y no me gustó mucho fue la práctica de hacer dinero fácil vendiendo cosas. Parece que no ha cambiado nada. Es una de las contradicciones del proceso. Me preocupa oír a amigos serios hablando del despilfarro en algunos consejos comunales y el mal uso de los créditos. Ni hablar de la policía y la GN. En su afán de incrementar sus aguinaldos, parece que están en otro país y que jamás hubiesen oído de la revolución bolivariana.
Antes de viajar leí un artículo de David Aaronovitch, uno de los comentaristas más conocidos del Reino Unido. El subjetivo título de sus comentarios publicados en The Times era, "¿Cómo ser un dictador loco? Si Hugo Chávez estuviese observando a Robert Mugabe, el presidente de Zimbabwe, él podría predecir como su vida se desarrollaría."
Les presento las ideas de Aaronovitch como típicas de lo que muchos comentaristas en el Reino Unido piensan de Chávez. A pesar de lo que el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores proclama y lo que creen dentro de los círculos gubernamentales, la mayoría de las fuentes periodísticas del Reino Unido comparan Chávez con Mugabe. El artículo de Aaronovitch se basa en los resultados del referéndum del 2 de diciembre y en la presencia de Mugabe en una conferencia que se llevó a cabo en Lisboa y a la cual no asistió el Primer ministro británico George Brown. Como muchos de su generación, Aaronovitch fue un estudiante radical que en el transcurso de su vida vio la luz y se quedó firmemente enconchado en el campo de la socialdemocracia como respuesta a la vida política de muchos países. Mugabe y Chávez, narra el autor, pasaron por ratos desagradables. En el caso del primero, el líder de Alemania, Ángela Merkel, le dijo a Mugabe cuatro verdades frente a 70 líderes africanos y europeos. En el caso del segundo, el rey de España le gritó que debería cerrar su bocota creando la expresión de moda del año 2007. Evocando al Cuento de Navidad del escritor ingles, Charles Dickens, David piensa que Mugabe es el espíritu de Navidad que está por venirle a Chávez. Los argumentos son los mismos de siempre: el haber ganado elecciones no garantiza la democracia y en países con gobiernos populistas "se nacionalizan industrias, se atacan a las oligarquías, se tratan periodistas como traidores y se culpan por todo al poder satánico del gran gringo de la casa blanca." Como pueden apreciar, el autor tiene facilidades de palabras.
Por más que invoca el poder del pueblo y a pesar de haber llegado al poder por medio de elecciones, se refuerza la creencia entre los británicos de que Chávez busca perpetuarse en el poder. El autor manipula sutilmente las declaraciones de Chávez sobre la derrota del 2D. El Presidente dijo primero, "reconozco la decisión del pueblo". Una semana después Chávez declaró que había sido una victoria de mierda. Aaronovitch concluye que, "el presidente describió a la decisión del pueblo como de mierda". Otra falacia que establece el artículo es lo malo de ponerle adjetivos a la palabra república: "Pregúntale a la gente que vive en repúblicas democráticas, islámicas (o bolivarianas)." Aaronovitch también ataca a defensores de Venezuela como Richard Gott y la profesora Julia Buxton.
Aaronovitch admite que puede equivocarse al mirar la bola de cristal. Sin embargo mantiene que Mugabe le ofrece a Chávez ideas tales como iniciar la confiscación de empresas extranjeras, usar lo expropiado para comprar conciencias, mirar el colapso de la economía echándole la culpa, primero al extranjero y luego al traidor, y finalmente mirar a su pueblo morirse de hambre. No sé si Julia Buxton de la Universidad de Bradford le contestó a Aaronovitch como suele hacerlo pero Aaronovitch se la devora por proclamar que no se debe juzgar a la democracia bolivariana con las luces del occidente. Buxton piensa que hay una diferencia entre la democracia en las bases de la sociedad en Venezuela y la percepción elitistas articulada por los medios y los grupos que promueven la democracia liberal. Buxton no está lejos de la verdad cuando afirma que no se puede ver lo que está pasando en Venezuela bajo la lupa de la democracia liberal. Sin embargo, Aaronovitch encapsula el escepticismo de la gente de la Gran Bretaña recordando la experiencia de la guerra fría comparando lo que escribe Buxton con lo que comentaron Sidney y Beatrice Webb sobre Stalin en 1936: sugirieron que Stalin era más colegiado que el primer ministro británico. El padre de David Aaronovitch fue miembro del Partido Comunista de Gran Bretaña.
La debilidad del argumento del autor es notable en lo que propone como solución para América Latina. Está convencido que en Venezuela están creadas las condiciones para un "mugabismo latino" y la solución no es un retorno al pasado sino algo como Chile "con la buena pero aburrida democracia social-liberal con votos parlamentarios y todo eso." Una pobre solución si se toma en cuenta el ascenso y caída de un tal Augusto Pinochet.
Durante mi estadía en Venezuela traté de comunicarme con Samuel Moncada, embajador de Venezuela en el Reino Unido porque estaba en el país. Le dejé varios mensajes en su buzón de celular pero de respuesta…, nada.
Fracasé en mi intento de asistir al primer Alo Presidente del 2008. Entiendo que fue un poco tarde. Dejé varios mensajes en los teléfonos que me proveyó Andrés Izarra cuando pasó por Londres el año pasado pero de respuesta…, nada. Realmente pensé que tenía una buena palanca luego del anuncio que Andrés era el nuevo Ministro de Comunicación e Información (Minci). Su mensaje al asumir el ministerio fue abierto y amplio dentro de la nueva política de revisar, rectificar y reimpulsar. La verdad es que pienso que el espíritu del pasado quizás es más fuerte que el espíritu del presente y del porvenir y no debería ser así. Este a propósito es mi opinión personal.
Compré la revista británica GQ donde la supermodelo Naomi Campbell ofrece una entrevista con Chávez. Veo que a la oposición, personificada por el manipulador de cuentos, Nelson Bocaranda Sardi, no le gustó para nada y trataron de darle un tono romántico al encuentro entre la modelo y el presidente. No vi ninguna referencia en la prensa mundial respecto a "un flechazo amoroso entre el caudillo y la supermodelo." Sin embargo, los datos que ofrece Bocaranda Sardi son reveladores. Por ejemplo, el que Campbell trajo de Londres a dos venezolanos, Mauricio Donelli (fotógrafo) y Vladimir Utrera como acompañantes. El sarcasmo del columnista sale a flote y bastante cuando expresa su desprecio hacia el presidente de Telesur, Andrés Izarra. Este ha fungido de traductor para más de una celebridad mundial incluyendo a Oliver Stone, Sean Penn y la misma Campbell.
Una cosa que me llenó de alegría durante la estadía fue ver gente que se había quemado dentro del movimiento bolivariano reincorporarse a la lucha. Una ahijada me dice que ahora ella cuenta con un equipo de trabajo que es firme y que sabe lo que quieren lograr. Con gente joven como ellos cree que habrá menos despilfarros y será más fácil hacerle seguimiento de los créditos y maquinarias y a los bienes de la nación. El éxito del proceso depende de la producción y la conciencia.
Los medios de la oposición están viento en popa 24/7. Poder leer los periódicos y ver los noticieros durante la estadía me ayudó a entender donde están apuntando. Si uno cree las noticias, todos los barrios de Venezuela están en estado de abandono y los entrevistados salen criticando el gobierno por regalar el dinero a otros países. Los que llevamos años reportando noticias sabemos que se están poniendo las palabras en la boca de la gente para promover su ángulo mediático particular. Efectivo.
Según mi parecer, el gobierno está a la defensiva y ha perdido terreno en la batalla de comunicaciones tanto en casa como en el exterior. La pelea es cuesta arriba.
La próxima semana: El Alcalde de Londres Ken Livingstone bajo fuego. Chávez y Naomi Campbell. Y Los últimos sobre VHeadline.com.
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Sunday, February 3, 2008
Patrick J. O'Donoghue's round-up of news from Venezuela: January 31, 2008

 

Patrick J. O'Donoghue's round-up of news from Venezuela: January 31, 2008

National Elections Council (CNE) president, Tibisay Lucena says regional elections will take place around the third week of November. Lucena admits that the CNE board has not fixed the exact date for state governorship, municipal and local council elections but has announced that the CNE is currently preparing the technological platform and operational system for the important elections. During her press conference, Lucena insists that the CNE is no longer a monopoly of political parties and electoral processes up to now have shown that Venezuela can count on an electoral system, which is "trustworthy, modern and highly technical." One of the biggest challenges in 2008, Lucena maintains, is to improve the civil state register and to push through Parliament a definite draft on electoral processes, financing and electoral campaigns. One of the key legal instruments that the CNE wants to wrap up this years concerns the functioning of political organizations. Lucena also mentions another important objective, namely to close the electoral gap of those excluded in the permanent electoral register, people who have never had the opportunity of taking part in electoral processes because they are not enrolled in the electoral register. During 2007 the number of automated voting tables rose to 32,939, leaving just 675 tables of manual counting, compared to 10 years ago when Venezuela only had 7,000 automated tables and 13,201 manual counting tables.

Food Minister, Felix Osorio has held a second meeting or encounter with the food distributors on a national level. The Minister says the idea of the meeting was to learn where products came from and who they were being distributed to in order to control smuggling, especially in border states. According to the Minister, the current checking system is done through an integral control system and he insists that the government is tackling what is called "extraction contraband," which is damaging the people of Venezuela. The Minister is adamant that the national inventory must be controlled and an alarm system installed when any of the items begin to disappear. The government has set aside (Bs.F) 7 million bolivares to make sure that around 160,000 tonnes of food is distributed through the Mercal distribution system. The Minister has also announced the return of "pay on site" system through the exchange administration office (Cadivi) aimed at facilitating negotiations with importers. It will be strictly controlled and is only for the food sector, Osorio adds.

Families of people held hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have announced they will not take part in a march organized by young Colombian citizens against the FARC on February 4. In a brief communique, family members say they consider the slogans of the march are very aggressive and will only polarize Colombia. The main fear of the signatories is that the government of Alvaro Uribe will try to take advantage of the protest and look on it as a kind of plebiscite or manifestation in favor of its war effort against the guerrillas. The march, which will take place in the principal cities of Colombia and more than a dozen capitals throughout the world, including Caracas, was launched on the Internet Facebook as an initiative of " Colombian youth" against the FARC. Colombian families of the hostages have rejected the initiative because their objective, they feel, is to free all hostages in exchange for FARC prisoners currently in jail, in other words, a humanitarian effort that benefits both sides and not just one. The Venezuelan opposition is supporting the march 100%, continuing its policy of begrudging the Venezuelan government's humanitarian effort.

In a interesting note for our readers, Las Verdades de Miguel columnist, Jose Luis Carpio writing from Spain makes a poignant point after on a short visit to his homeland. Some Venezuelan media sources, he notes, have adopted the custom of carrying and copying many news items from Colombian news agencies. There is still no authentic Venezuelan journalism, he laments, and home journalists seem to be political actors that stick to the editorial line imposed by their paymasters, the media owners. "We see denunciations without any real proof and investigations that collapse by themselves." The majority of national papers do not invest in foreign correspondents. The sole exception is Telesur.

Organization of American States General Secretary (OAS) Jose Miguel Insulza says he hopes Colombia and Venezuela will find roads of harmony to overcome rising tensions between the two countries. Current tensions should not be magnified, Insulza adds, and agreements must be reached.

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But wasn't this fat man conspiring against Chavez?

I would have thought that the CIA was brighter than this ...

VHeadline commentarist Oscar Heck writes: This is utterly ridiculous.  I would have thought that the CIA was brighter than this ... but they certainly aren't very bright at all.  People may have heard the story about a Miami-based Venezuelan businessman named Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson who was caught at the Buenos Aires (Argentina) airport in August 2007 with $800,000 in a suitcase which he said was his. Then, around the time of Venezuela's December 2007 national referendum to either approve or reject Chavez' and the the National Assembly's proposed changes to the Venezuelan constitution, the US-based mass media began to say that the $800,000 was sent through Wilson by the Chavez government with the aim of subversively financing the Argentinean (pro-Chavez) presidential candidate, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner... all this hoopla to make Chavez look bad, again, as usual.

According to a January 25, 2008, Bloomberg article, "A man pleaded guilty to acting as an illegal foreign agent on behalf of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's intelligence agency in covering up a plot to influence Argentina's presidential election. Moises Maionica, 36, admitted in federal court in Miami that he conspired with four men to silence Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, a Florida businessman. On Aug. 4, Antonini claimed he owned a suitcase with $800,000 that was seized at a Buenos Aires airport. Maionica admitted pressuring Antonini to tell no one the cash came from the Venezuelan government and was intended for the presidential campaign of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner ... On Aug. 4, Antonini flew from Caracas to Argentina on a private jet with officials of Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, that nation's energy company, according to the document. Authorities have previously said that Energia Argentina SA, or Enarsa, Argentina's state energy company, chartered the Cessna Citation jet. The document claims for the first time that Antonini had no knowledge of the suitcase's contents. 'Mr. Antonini was carrying the suitcase at the request of one of the other passengers,' according to the document. 'Mr. Antonini was unaware that the $800,000 was in the suitcase, as the suitcase belonged to one of the other passengers.' "

Do you see what I see?  I remember this incident, Wilson was caught in Argentina with the $800,000 suitcase and said it was his ... but then, about 6 months later, after the US government gets involved, the story does a 180 and Wilson was not the owner of the suitcase ... and the money wasn't his ... and the money was sent through him, without his knowing, by the Venezuelan government .... and the money was destined to go to Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, a pro-Chavez candidate for Argentina's presidential election. Weird.

But here is a quote from a January 7, 2008, Bloomberg article, "Two men accused of acting as illegal agents of Venezuela pleaded innocent in a case that U.S. prosecutors claimed involves covering up the attempted delivery of $800,000 in a suitcase to an Argentine presidential campaign. Carlos Kauffmann and Moises Maionica, both 36, entered not guilty pleas today in Miami federal court. Florida businessman Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson said he carried the cash from Venezuela to Buenos Aires, where airport authorities discovered it Aug. 4. Prosecutors contend Venezuela intended it for Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's campaign." (It is worth reading this entire article because it simply makes no sense ... and it shows just how ridiculous the whole thing is ... and it certainly allows one to get a whiff of the stench of subversive CIA activity in the matter.)

Again, Wilson says that he carried the cash ... and ... the cash is said to have been sent by the Venezuelan government to covertly finance Kirchner in Argentina.

Then a January 8, 2008 Bloomberg article states, "Maria Lujan Telpuk, a Buenos Aires airport police officer, was X-raying luggage at 2:45 a.m. on Aug. 4 when she spotted the suitcase. Her machine showed it was 'packed with perfect rectangles of very high density.' When Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, a Florida businessman arriving from Caracas, opened the bag at her insistence, it revealed bundles of U.S. cash. `He said, "There might be about $60,000,'' ' Telpuk, 27, recalled in an interview. 'I freaked out.' He was lying or mistaken. Authorities who seized the valise counted $790,550 ... Telpuk recounted this exchange in the interview: 'This is my suitcase,' he said. 'Sir, what did you bring in your suitcase?' she asked. 'Some books.' 'What else do you have in there?'  'I also have some papers.' 'Open the suitcase.' He hesitated. She insisted: 'Open it.' As he unzipped it, she saw cash wrapped in rubber bands. 'He wasn't aggressive,' Telpuk said. 'He was a real gentleman.' " (This is another article worth reading.)

The above again clearly implicates Wilson directly, meaning, that he was fully aware of what was in the suitcase. The whole story is bizarre and full of contradictions. If one reads the above quoted articles in their entirety, one discovers that the US government has arrested some Venezuelan businessmen living in the USA and charged them with spying (unregistered agents for a foreign country) and if one reads other articles related to this whole affair, the US government has also seized their bank accounts. The whole story is incomprehensible ... except for one thing which is emphasized over and over (without a shred of verifiable evidence), that the Chavez government was involved in some unspecified act of subversion. Weird.

To me, it all sounds like a CIA set-up for the media clowns who continue to bash Chavez and his government.  I saw Chavez talking about this incident ... and he said that it was said that Wilson had met with Chavez.  Chavez was completely taken aback and said that he had never heard of or met this Wilson character. (Why would anyone say that Wilson met with Chavez?)  I believe Chavez ... and I certainly don't believe Wilson. You'll see why later in the article.

Now, here is perhaps the most interesting part of the story.

I received two emails yesterday, both referring to January 28 and January 29, 2008 articles on Aporrea.org,  a very well-known Venezuelan Spanish-language pro-Chavez website.  One article refers to some highly interesting and incriminating things said about Wilson by one Jaime Bayly, a well-known Peruvian journalist and television personality in Peru and abroad, including Miami at some point. One has to keep in mind that Bayly is completely anti-Chavez ... so what Bayly says about Wilson is of huge importance ... and probably true. The other article is about Luis Bilbao, an Argentinean journalist, who like me believes that the whole thing is a CIA set-up. The following is an excerpt (in Spanish) of what Bayly said in one of his articles in the Peruvian newspaper El Correo Del Peru  on January 28, 2008, about a meeting he had in January 2002 with Wilson at Wilson's home in Miami (translation further below):

"Me dijo que Chávez era una desgracia, que había instaurado un régimen autoritario y corrupto, que los amigotes de Chávez estaban haciéndose muy ricos, que no se podía hacer dinero a no ser que fueras socio del régimen. Me contó que era amigo de Carlos Andrés Pérez, que hablaban a menudo, que Carlos Andrés estaba en Santo Domingo, pero venía con frecuencia a Miami. Le dije que conocía a Carlos Andrés, que lo había entrevistado el año 97 o 98. Cogió el teléfono, llamó a Carlos Andrés y le dijo que estaba conmigo. Me dio sus saludos. Le dijo que cuando viniera a Miami, teníamos que juntarnos los tres "para hablar de política". Hablaron de cosas que no entendí y cortó. Mi amigo Guido se sirvió otro trago y me dijo: -Chávez no va a durar. Va a caer pronto. Lo vamos a tumbar. Le dije que eso sería difícil, dado que los militares lo apoyaban y muchos de sus compañeros de promoción ocupaban puestos claves. -Acuérdate de mí -insistió-. A Chávez lo tumbamos. Va a terminar en la cárcel. Pensé que estaba fanfarroneando, que quería hacer alarde de su poder y sus conexiones. Poco después me llevó a la cochera del edificio y me mostró su colección de autos de lujo: Hummers, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Mercedes. -Cuando quieras, te presto uno de estos para que lleves a tus hijas a Orlando -me sorprendió ... Unos meses después, en abril, leí que le habían dado un golpe a Chávez. Me acordé de mi amigo Guido, de sus enfáticas palabras: -Chávez no va a durar. Lo vamos a tumbar. Lo llamé para preguntarle qué estaba pasando en Caracas. No contestó ... No volví a verlo más, hasta una mañana, cinco años después, en que abrí un periódico en Buenos Aires y vi la foto de ese raro gordo bonachón, acusado de ser "el hombre de la valija", el misterioso pasajero que llegó en un vuelo privado desde Caracas y quiso introducir ilegalmente un maletín con ochocientos mil dólares en efectivo. Lo primero que pensé fue: Suerte que no me prestó su Hummer para ir a Disney. Lo siguiente que me dije fue: ¿Pero este gordo no estaba conspirando contra Chávez?"

"He (Wilson) told me that Chavez is a disgrace, that he had set up a corrupt and authoritarian government, that Chavez' friends were getting very rich and that one can't make money in Venezuela unless one is partner with the regime. He told me that he is friends with Carlos Andres Perez (CAP -- one of Venezuela's most corrupt presidents ever), that they talk often and that CAP was in Santo Domingo but came to Miami often. I told him I knew CAP because I had interviewed him in 97 or 98.  He took the phone, called CAP and told CAP that he was with me and CAP said hello and he told CAP that when CAP comes to Miami, we have so sit down all three of us to 'discuss politics.'  Then they talked about stuff I didn't understand and he hung up. My friend Guido served himself another drink and said, 'Chavez won't last long.  He will fall. We will bring him down.'  I told him that that would be difficult because the military is on his side and many of his (military) schoolmates hold important positions. 'Remember me,' he insisted, 'we will bring Chavez down. He'll end up in jail.' I thought he was fooling around, trying to show off because of his power and connections. Then he took me to the place where his cars are parked and showed me his collection of luxury cars: Hummers, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Mercedes. 'When you want I'll lend you one of these so you can take your daughters to Orlando' -- that surprised me ... A few weeks later, in April, I read that a coup against Chavez had taken place. I remembered my friend Guido, of his words,  'Chavez won't last long.We will bring him down.' I called him to ask him what was happening in Caracas.  He didn't answer ... I didn't see him again until one morning, five years later, when I opened a newspaper in Buenos Aires and I saw that photo of that fat 'good-guy' accused of being the 'suitcase man,' that mysterious passenger that arrived in a private jet coming from Caracas and wanted to illegally bring in a suitcase with $800,000 in cash. The first thing I thought was,'Lucky (for me) that he didn't lend me his car to go to Disney.' The next thing I though was, 'But wasn't this fat man conspiring against Chavez?' "

Yes ... and that is the big question, "But wasn't this fat man conspiring against Chavez?"

If Wilson is a friend of CAP, who has made several public calls for the assassination of Chavez, and if Wilson hates Chavez' guts, as seen in Bayly's article, then how does Wilson end up with a suitcase of Chavez government money destined to go to pro-Chavez Kirshner?

Does that make sense to you?  Not to me, it doesn't.  But the real question is, why did the US government get involved in the matter?  This is my take. If Wilson was trying to smuggle his own money into Argentina, the US government would have no reason to get involved, letting Wilson fight his own legal battle.  If the money which Wilson was carrying did indeed come from the Venezuelan government, then again, the US government would have no reason to get involved, letting Wilson and the Argentinean and Venezuelan government fight it out between themselves.  The mass media would quickly get a hold of the story and have a worldwide anti-Chavez circus performance, which would more than satisfy the US government's ongoing propaganda campaign against Chavez. The fact is that the US government did get involved in the case, after the fact.  But why? It just doesn't make sense. There has to be a reason why the US government got involved in this case ... one of  probably hundreds of money laundering cases which go on worldwide on regular basis. What I believe is happening is that Wilson was working for the CIA as a money-mule. The $800,000 was probably not destined for Kirchner, but probably for subversive anti-Kirchner CIA operations within Argentina. Wilson had probably told CIA directors that there was no risk in him bringing the cash to Argentina (as he probably has done for the CIA in many Latin American countries) because he is a big-shot and because, in addition, he'd be flying in a private jet with PDVSA directors who would not be searched or interrogated. But, he was wrong this time. After Wilson was caught at the Buenos Aires airport by honest customs officers who reported it, everything went quiet for a while (at least in the US media) ... until the US government became openly involved some time later. This is what I believe may have happened. The Argentinean police, under some kind of money laundering cooperation treaty, probably contacted the FBI immediately and opened an investigation file with them.  The file with the FBI was probably opened without the CIA having had a chance to stop it ... or perhaps the CIA couldn't legally do anything about the FBI file being opened.  Since and if the FBI file was opened, the CIA probably had no choice but to make a deal with the FBI to have the FBI either not get involved in the investigation file with Argentina or slow it down considerably giving time for the CIA (the US government) to cover up the whole affair before any evidence was found linking Wilson to the CIA. The smart people at the CIA, behind Wilson's back, probably decided this was a good time to invent a story implicating both Wilson and Chavez ... two birds with one stone ...  to divert all attention away from them ... public media attacks on Chavez and ... make Wilson look like the bad guy one way or the other.  With their story (that the money Wilson was carrying was coming from the Chavez government), they probably figured Wilson would either eventually be implicated with Chavez as a spy and thus sought after by the American courts ... or, if he could prove otherwise, he would have to deal with the American and Argentinean courts on a personal level for money laundering and lying to customs agents and investigators. He would surely never say that he was involved in a CIA operation since they had probably threatened him at the beginning of the sequence of events.  But they were wrong again. At first, Wilson said that the money was his (probably to not implicate the CIA), but then when the CIA backstabbed him by surprise with the invention of the story that it was Chavez' money and that Wilson had met Chavez (to entrap Wilson), Wilson said that the money wasn't his, that it was someone else's who was on the flight with him, someone who worked for Chavez (or something of that nature) and that he did not know the money was in the suitcase.  Then, when Wilson realized the CIA was in the process of backstabbing him to protect their own skins, he probably approached them and said something like, "Your tricks aren't working and I'm not going down for you guys. If I am forced to testify, I'll take the CIA down with me, and all of you guys personally, the whole lot of you.  I'll spill the beans if I have to.  Get off my back and fix it now. If you don't, I'll not only spill the beans in the courts, but I'll tell the worldwide media about it. You guys don't need that publicity, do you?" And this is where Wilson probably gave them an idea, "Find some scapegoats ... like my business competitors in Miami, so and so, and so.  Make sure they take the rap, make sure their bank accounts are seized, make sure they are charged and found guilty of spying or whatever ... I want them out of business anyways.  And remember, if you don't comply, I will spill the beans."   So, the whole ever-more-confusing story we have been hearing more recently in the media about the arrest of several Venezuelan businessmen in the Miami area who are charged with things like spying for the Venezuelan government (unregistered foreign agents) and lying to investigators and all that was probably fabricated by the CIA and by the US government with the intent of diverting attention from the real culprits (the CIA) while trying to make sure that Wilson doesn't spill the beans.  Then, once the accused "culprits" are prosecuted, sentenced and jailed, the FBI can simply "close the file," leaving the Argentinean police in suspended animation ... and Wilson plenty of time to leave the USA.  It looks to me like the CIA is cooperating with Wilson.

That's my take on the story ... and I have good reason to believe in such a scenario.  I personally met a CIA operative who spent a few years doing subversive CIA work in Argentina, based in Buenos Aires. I know for a fact that the CIA operated (s) in Argentina ... and this suitcase story is just too weird to be anything innocent or normal. The other thing is, why would Bayly, a complete anti-Chavez person, spill the beans on Wilson?  Ah ... another interesting piece of the puzzle.

My take on this is that Bayly perhaps had something to do with the fat man, perhaps something regarding one of the many TV shows which Bayly was involved in, perhaps in Miami, and things turned sour between them.  Maybe Bayly was promised something by Wilson, and Wilson back-stabbed him?  Super-wealthy people don't make money by being nice guys, do they?

"But wasn't this fat man conspiring against Chavez?"

Oscar Heck
oscarheck111@yahoo.com

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ALBA forces / ALBA forces


 

ALBA forces met with caution

Vincent Bevins writes: Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez´ proposal on Sunday to form a regional armed forces for the ALBA development alliance has not met with the immediate support that might have been hoped for.

An armed forces consisting of Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Dominica, the members of ALBA (The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas) was proposed by Chávez in concert with Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega, but has been met with caution by Bolivia.

Minister of Defense Wálker San Miguel said that the proposal "is something that must be dealt with in the heart of the government. We haven´t taken any position, because we haven't even considered the proposal." And Wellington Sandoval, Minister of Defense of Ecuador, which is one of Venezuela's closest allies, though not an ALBA member, said that they could not commit to any proposal that doesn't conform to their historic "thesis of peace and respect for autodetermination."

Neither comment necessarily excludes the plans for the ALBA forces however, as they remain rather undefined except as a general defense against U.S. intervention.

 

ALBA forces met with cautiongional integration
 
Vincent Bevins writes: The foreign ministers of South American countries approved Sunday an important step towards the creation of a South American regional integration. Meeting in Cartagena, Colombia, they set a timeline for the meeting of the eleven countries which would constitute Unasur, a potentially very powerful regional organization that could oneday mirror similar entities like the European Union.

Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca, who will hold the presidency of Unasur, said that the first treaty will be signed at the third summit of presidents and heads of state, which will take place "as soon as possible…and in no case after June 2008."

Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolás Maduro has previously accused Colombia of impeding regional integration, as has president Hugo Chávez, by delaying indefinitely the meetings "without any explanation".

Chávez has been one of the most vocal champions of regional integration, and has insisted that South America move to a common currency.

 

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This is the policy of hypocrisy that the U.S. feeds the world

This is the policy of hypocrisy that the U.S. feeds the world
 
VHeadline commentarist Kenneth T. Tellis writes: In what way is Chavez hurting the Venezuelan poor, if he upholds the laws against smuggling, black-marketing and profiteering?

The U.S. Government and Corporations have been in that business for a long time and know how to do it.

    * But, what may legal in the pseudo-democracy called the U.S.A. may not be legal anywhere else in the world.

 
If your argument is right, then why does the U.S. enforce its border patrols to stop drugs getting into the country? Right now the U.S. Government and News Media are playing charades.

This campaign against Chavez and Venezuela has exposed itself to be part of U.S. Government policy in attempting to bring down the Chavez Government of Venezuela, but it will not work.

The reason being that the most corrupt Government in the world is the Bush regime which now runs the U.S.

Instead of trying to set someone else's house in order why not try to set your own, because this is the policy of hypocrisy that the U.S. feeds the world.
 
 
Kenneth T. Tellis
kenttellis@rogers.com


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Venezuela headlines -- February 1, 2008 -- a.m.

font size=5 color="#800000">Chavez proposal to form a regional army of the alliance has been met with caution

Caracas Daily Journal (Vincent Bevins):  Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has reiterated and defended his support for a regional ALBA armed force, after the plan was met with caution by Bolivia and Ecuador. He has linked the need for the forces with a supposed threat from Colombia. He said he supported the idea of an armed force, so that the enemies of ALBA would "respect it." He said that "Colombia has a powerful military force, an army with 100,000 soldiers … denying the rights of Nicaraguan fishermen to fish" in the waters of the disputed zone. He has echoed the thesis of Venezuelan President Chavez and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro that Colombia might be planning military action in the region.

Chavez' proposal on Sunday to form a regional armed force for the ALBA development alliance had not met with the immediate support that might have been hoped for.

The armed forces consisting of Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Dominica, the members of ALBA (The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas) was proposed by Chavez in concert with Ortega, but had been met with caution by Bolivia. Minister of Defense Walker San Miguel said that the proposal "is something that must be dealt with in the heart of the government. We haven't taken any position, because we haven't even considered the proposal."

Ecuador seemed equally unexcited. Wellington Sandoval, Minister of Defense of the country, which is one of Venezuela's closest allies, though not an ALBA member, said that they could not commit to any proposal that does not conform to their historic "thesis of peace and respect for auto-determination."

Neither comment necessarily excludes the plans for the ALBA forces however, as they remain rather undefined except as a general defense against US intervention. But there are historical reasons why Nicaragua would be more enthusiastic about the creation of a left-wing, anti-imperialist armed forces. When Ortega presided over the first Sandinista government in the 80s, the state was slowly bled to death by the Contra forces, supported by the United States.

He gave an extended history of these events this Sunday in Venezuela during Alo Presidente. A regional armed force would of course be very unlikely to be able to hold off what its proponents consider their greatest threat, the United States. But it would strengthen the alliance of ALBA and make any kind of intervention much more difficult.

Chavez periodically repeats plans of a US, or Colombian, military action, and there are groups in the US openly calling for intervention in Cuba when Castro dies.

It remains to be seen if the other members of the armed forces will be convinced if plans for the forces are elaborated more completely.

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Workers at the Sidor steel plant in Bolivar state go on strike for 48 hours

Caracas Daily Journal (Jeremy Morgan): Workers at the Sidor steel plant in Bolivar state went on strike for 48 hours in their continuing pay dispute with the company. Some of the strike leaders demanded that the government intervene and, if necessary, take over the company and put into state ownership.

Spokesmen for the business community in Bolivar confirmed that the plant had been completely closed by the strike. They warned that the strike was costing local small and medium-sized companies BF.6 billion a day in lost output.

Traditional practice in Venezuela is for negotiations on pay and working conditions to be conducted under tripartite collective bargaining agreements. However, officials at the industry union, Sutiss, say this custom has been abandoned by the government for reasons that have yet to be explained.

Sidor is one of the largest privately owned companies in the country. Officials have talked in the past of nationalizing the company in the strategic national interest.

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Moreno faces other charges in connection with violent incidents

Caracas Daily Journal (Jeremy Morgan):  Student leader Nixon Moreno, who was acquitted by a court in Merida state earlier this week of charges stemming from the April 2002 crisis, still isn't out of the woods yet.

Moreno faces other charges in connection with violent incidents at La Hechicera, also in Merida, in May 2006. He is accused of aggression towards the police including attempted rape of female officer.

A trial on these charges seems likely, given the nature of the crimes Moreno is alleged to have committed. However, no date for a trial has been disclosed, and he will probably remain in custody until it happens.

President Hugo Chavez says that he is prepared to pardon people who faced legal action for having taken part in political actions against him. But he has made it more than plain that he is not willing to amnesty individuals accused of committing crimes against humanity.

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CNE president indicates November as "tentative date" for elections

Caracas Daily Journal (Jeremy Morgan): The National Electoral Council (CNE) appears to be inclining towards holding the regional elections on November 16, despite opposition from one of the five directors on the board, Vicente Diaz.

CNE president Tibisay Lucena indicated that the third week in November had been set as the "tentative date" for the elections for state governors and municipal mayors. By custom, Venezuelan elections are held on Sundays.

In theory, or at least according to Diaz, the elections have to be held by October 31, exactly four years after the officials were voted into office in 2004. He says this is stipulated in the Constitution, and that any other timetable would not be valid.

However, signs are that Diaz, and reputedly not for the first time, is in a minority of one on the CNE board. Lucena didn't comment on his previous statements in which he insisted on the end of October.

The reasons for delaying the vote have yet to be explained.

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Truth behind briefcase affair increasingly difficult to ascertain

Caracas Daily Journal (Vincent Bevins): There have been even more bizarre turns in the internationally explosive "briefcase" affair, starring Guido Antonini Wilson and the governments of Venezuela, the United States, and Argentina.

Days after Venezuelan lawyer Moises Maionica pled guilty to failing to register as an agent of a foreign government, National Assembly member Iris Varela announced she would launch an investigation into Antonini Wilson, claiming he was part of a conspiracy and participated in the aborted coup of April 2002.

Many have attempted to interpret Maionica's plea bargain as an admission of what he and three colleagues have been accused of by the FBI, pressuring Antonini not to reveal that the now-famous $800,000 was being sent from the Venezuelan government to the campaign of Argentine President Cristina Kirchner.

But Varela claims Antonini has been a long-time enemy of the Chavez government.

"We are going to investigate the case that now forms part of a conspiracy against the people of Venezuela … this man was part of the international plot that happened on April 11." She claims the money actually came from Miami. Things were confusing enough when, after trying to enter Argentina with the money, he immediately fled to Miami, where the US government has denied his extradition to Argentina, though he clearly broke Argentine law. And the accusations that the money was from Chavez for Kirchner has raised eyebrows since Kirchner barely campaigned, and Chavez would have been able to transfer the money in much easier ways.

    * And now, complicating matters further, US authorities say that the money he carried into the country was not even his, that he did not know the contents of the briefcase, that he was given it to carry into the country.


It remains to be explained why he would do such a thing, or why US authorities would believe him if he had told them he did. It also remains to be seen if Varela's investigation will lead to a more satisfying explanation. She claims she met Antonini five years ago in Miami, and knows he was a part of the 2002 coup, because someone who is "not a part of the revolutionary government" said it, journalist Jaime Bayly.

She said that she knows Antonini "has a sister who is a judge in New York … he's connected to the judicial power of the United States."

The only certainty at this point is that both Venezuela and the United States have used the case to engage in one of their favorite pastimes, to hurl accusations at one another.

The Venezuelan government has asked for an official copy of Maionica's statement. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner recently received the US ambassador, despite having had very harsh words for the North American country after the accusations. She had claimed that the case showed that the US was not interested in having Latin American friends, but subordinates.

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Food crackdown hits Polar; Fedecamaras blames government policies

Caracas Daily Journal (Jeremy Morgan): The government's crackdown on suspected hoarding of foodstuffs and other household essentials has reached the food and beer giant Polar, one of the biggest private sector companies in the country.

The National Guard (GN) raided one of the company's storage centers in Maturin, the capital of Monagas state, on January 22.

The GN's Seventh Region Commander, General Francisco Ortega Castillo, said 165 tonnes of flour, which he claimed was being kept from suppliers, was seized. Jose Anzola, director of logistics and food supply at Alimentos Polar, rejected the accusation. The flour was to have been distributed to about one thousand sales outlets in Monagas, he said, and 165 tonnes was only two and a half days' inventory. Anzola noted that Ricardo Felice, a manager who was arrested during the raid, was still in custody.

Felice's lawyer claims the custody order issued by a court is unlawful.

Venezuela's biggest business organization, the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Fedecamaras, said that attacks on companies were intended to distract attention from the failure of the government's economic policies. The government was responsible for correcting its errors, Fedecamaras President Jose Manuel Gonzalez said.

The cattle ranchers' federation, Fedenaga, warned there wasn't enough meat from domestic producers to meet demand. Bakeries said official prices didn't cover their costs.

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SPANISH
(English to the right)


Por Franz J. T. Lee

Mis amos coloniales británicos me enseñaron que "solo trabajar y no jugar hacen que Franz sea un niño apagado".  Hace décadas realmente me encantaba este dogma ideológico del 'divide y reinarás' en África.  Sin embargo, bajo el Apartheid, hace cinco décadas, muy pronto tuve que aprender que esta sabiduría creativa no tenia que ver conmigo, no pertenecía a un 'Kaffir' trabajador *, sino que más bien era lo opuesto.  Tuve que presenciar cómo mis compatriotas 'negros' fueron arrancados de sus hogares ancestrales por medio de la fuerza bruta, apilados en 'campos de concentración para el trabajo', y luego como utensilios, al azar, como trabajadores físicos no calificados y baratos fueron distribuidos en las minas, fabricas y plantaciones por los 'blancos'.  Allí, como las famosas naranjas sudafricanas de exportación 'Outspan' (Outspan se refiere en Sudáfrica al lugar en una hacienda donde los viajeros pueden parar a descansar con su animales.  N. del T.), fueron literalmente exprimidos, sometidos a trabajo forzoso, no se divertían, no tenían tiempo libre; su extracto vital fluía hacia el mercado mundial; el capital foráneo se acumuló a pasos agigantados; la 'carga del hombre blanco' se incrementaba mientras la expectativa de vida del esclavo asalariado que labora físicamente disminuía, cayendo a 35 años, y la de su opulento amo se disparaba a 70 años.  Por medio del orden social fascista el sistema capitalista estaba cometiendo genocidio, el Estado estaba destruyendo, asesinando la mejor parte de la vida de los trabajadores, su juventud floreciente, creativa.

Este es uno de los crímenes mas crueles, atroces del capitalismo mundial.  Solo una verdadera revolución socialista, anticapitalista puede abolir tales atrocidades.  Si no lo hace, entonces no es socialista.

Como lo señaló Oscar Heck en un artículo para VHeadline.com, hace mucho tiempo, en referencia al 'asesinato a paso lento' de nuestro Presidente de Venezuela Hugo Chávez, utilizando la efectiva estrategia fascista y el arma capitalista del trabajo forzado, de la tensión, uno es empujado inmisericordemente hacia adelante con el eterno látigo del 'hay que lograrlo'.  De manera lenta pero segura, el trabajo duro, el esfuerzo permanente, exprime por completo nuestra energía vital, y la de cualquier líder, cualquier ser humano.  Finalmente, la súper-explotación provoca el colapso total del individuo, del guerrero, su 'muerte natural'.  Obviamente esto le ocurrirá a Chávez al trabajar hasta morir por Venezuela, mientras nosotros manejamos una lujosa Hummer e ingerimos litros y litros de whisky importado.  El que ría de ultimo será Bush.

En el distrito Sterkspruit de Cabo del Este, donde nací y crecí, viviendo con mis vecinos AmaXhosa, con esta misma estrategia de desgaste y ayudados por perros cazábamos conejos.  Y una vez fui testigo de cómo el servicio de seguridad sudafricano BOSS, estos perros de la Gestapo del Apartheid, empleaban esta misma estrategia segura para perseguir guerrilleros en nuestras montañas, utilizando de manera sádica helicópteros, dejándolos correr desesperadamente hasta caer al suelo como resultado del cansancio total.

*  Una lección para nosotros: La revolución bolivariana, su líder popular, el presidente Chávez, todos nosotros nos encontramos actualmente en este tipo de peligro.
No hay revolución social 'típica', 'clásica' o 'esquemática', todas las revoluciones son diferentes, especificas y concretas. Tienen su propia lógica, ciencia y filosofía. A la vez, no existen infinidades de revoluciones sociales, en nuestra opinión sólo existe una sola revolución socialista global, el 'otro lado' dialéctico, la negación, el opuesto del capitalismo mundial, como un modo de producción específico.

Existen semillas, raíces, latencias, tendencias y posibilidades transhistóricas del socialismo como modo de creación y creatividad, pero como el propio capitalismo sólo existe un sólo socialismo, el que medido por su tarea histórica es científico, filosófico y emancipatorio. Tal como no ha existido ni existe un capitalismo zulú, guineano, azteca o napoleónico, no ha existido ni existe un socialismo ruso, africano, árabe o yoruba, ni mucho menos existe un 'socialismo real existente'.

* El capitalismo es un modo de producción moderno, globalizado, explotador, dominante y discriminatorio, la única cosa que puede abolirlo es su propia negación, el socialismo globalizado, un trascendente modo de emancipación de la clase trabajadora, que debe aventurarse mas allá de todas las formas y formaciones del capitalismo globalizado.

*  Una importante lección revolucionaria: la lucha de clases sí existe en Venezuela, querámoslo o no, como marxismo, y existirá hasta que muera el capitalismo.
Hasta este momento en que estamos cruzando el Rubicón esta es una de las primeras lecciones urgentes que la revolución bolivariana debe estudiar inmediatamente, es decir, actuar y trascender consecuentemente.

Las revoluciones sociales, específicamente la revolución socialista, como fue estudiada , hecha y pensada científicamente por los libertadores marxistas globales no son criaturas de un día, pueden ser veloces, pueden tomar décadas, o incluso siglos para materializarse.  Debido a su lógica y contradicciones internas, a sus tareas históricas, tienen sus altibajos, sus pros y contras, no se desarrollan en línea recta; como la propia revolución bolivariana puede disfrutar de mareas altas por una década, y de repente, como una sorpresa, caer en mareas bajas, algunas veces se atascan en el tedio, provocando frustración práxica y confusión teórica.

*  Esta es otra lección pertinente que aprender en Venezuela: el fracaso es el otro lado dialéctico de la victoria, y ambas son partes revolucionarias del mismo proceso revolucionario.  La lucha de clases y la conciencia de clase no son categorías lógico-formales.  También la burguesía participa en la lucha de clases.  Ella existe independientemente de nuestras pesadillas ideológicas.
No hay por qué preocuparse porque las fuerzas contrarrevolucionarias aparentemente tengan una ventaja momentánea.  Como Marx lo enfatizó, este 'látigo' es necesario para separar el trigo de la paja, para lanzar la revolución hacia otro grado emancipatorio, para salir de la escoria entre nosotros; en la revolución socialista la calidad decidirá la victoria final.

*  A pesar de todas las diferencias ¿que tienen en común las revoluciones sociales, incluyendo la socialista?

* ¿Cual es la quintaesencia de la revolución social?
Recapitulemos: dentro de la historia, el proceso de producción, no existen 'ricos' y 'pobres' sino amos y esclavos.  Cualquier forma de producción, cualquier formación del trabajo produce lógicamente clases sociales antagónicas, relaciones sociales clasistas, las gobernantes y las gobernadas, explotadas, dominadas, discriminadas, masacradas y alienadas.  Esta es la quintaesencia de la lucha de clases.  Esta es la razón de ser de la revolución social.

*  Otra lección para Venezuela: todas las revoluciones sociales, especialmente la socialista, son luchas de clases.
No importa en cuál nivel de producción se halle una revolución social, esta realidad transhistórica va desde la acumulación primitiva de capital en una sociedad basada en el trabajo de esclavos hasta el imperialismo corporativo global moderno: un sistema moderno que explota económicamente al meso, micro y macrocosmos en su totalidad.  Además, al nivel en que se encuentra nuestra revolución bolivariana debemos distinguir entre la acumulación del capital dentro de pasados modos de producción dominantes y el capitalismo como el actual modo de producción globalizado dominante.  Este último es el que tenemos que eliminar.

*  Esto nos lleva a la siguiente lección: el socialismo es lucha de clases, no es consenso de clases, no es una alianza pacífica entre trabajo y capital, es una revolución social dentro del capitalismo mundial, es una negación, es la negación categórica del capitalismo, es verdaderamente anticapitalista, y sólo como tal es verdaderamente anti-imperialista, que es algo muy distinto que declararse 'anti-imperio' o 'anti-imperial'.

*  Esto nos conduce a la siguiente lección, al asunto decisivo para nosotros: ¿reforma o revolución, barbarie o socialismo?
Como lo señaló Rosa Luxemburgo en su famoso escrito 'Reforma Social o Revolución' (1900) contra Eduard Bernstein, la mera reforma social dentro del modo de producción capitalista global puede ser un medio de revolución, pero nunca es el objetivo final de la revolución social, de la lucha de clases moderna.  Es contrarrevolucionario hacer del reformismo una meta revolucionaria, su qué hacer.  El reformismo es un cambio social limitado dentro del modo de producción capitalista explotador, no es su abolición.  La revolución socialista esta cruzando el Rubicón, esta destruyendo la barbarie, el salvajismo neoliberal.

*  Por lo tanto, camaradas, la revolución socialista es lucha de clases, es marxismo.  Somos libres de hacer lo que querramos, pero debemos ser muy cautelosos en cómo lo llamamos. Hitler, Goering y Goebbels llamaron al fascismo 'nacional-socialismo'.
Este momento, el año 2008, es decisivo.  En Venezuela la revolución bolivariana está destinada a revelar su quintaesencia transhistórica, a dar el salto socialista hacia la verdadera emancipación anti-capitalista o estancarse en el 'chavismo sin Chávez', el reformismo, los pactos entre caballeros, la corrupción, la impunidad, los barriles de whisky yanqui importado, el consenso de clases, el salvajismo neoliberal y la barbarie nazi.

En Sudáfrica en el año 1960 tuve la oportunidad de leer el famoso libro de Jorge Plejanov, El papel del individuo en la historia, y aprendí que ningún dios, ninguna idea, ningún hombre o pueblo por sí solo puede jamás hacer la 'historia', puede hacer la revolución socialista.  Por coincidencia el presidente Chávez también leyó este libro, años más tarde. Así que si amamos a Chávez, por favor concedámosle unas vacaciones bien merecidas en la Amazonia, bajo la condición que mientras tanto lo multiplicaremos por millones para hacer su trabajo, el trabajo de un verdadero revolucionario. Sólo así evitaremos el colapso de nuestro Presidente e impediremos que se convierte en otra víctima más de la traición de la clase dominante.

*  Por lo tanto, la lección final: los trabajadores de Venezuela, del mundo, al igual que el capital, no tienen Patria.  Es su deber revolucionario fundar su propio partido socialista de vanguardia, en la tradición del victorioso Partido Bolchevique de Lenin. (Ver: http://www.franzlee.org/marxmanifesto.html)

La única forma de detener tal partido de los trabajadores sería matar a todos los líderes de su vanguardia; sólo de esa forma el estalinismo fascista pudo triunfar en la Unión Soviética.  Esta tragedia nunca debe ocurrir en suelo venezolano. De manera que, camaradas, ¡cuidado!  Vivimos una época local, regional, nacional e internacional extremadamente peligrosa.  Venezuela: ¡es el socialismo ahora o nunca!
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Original en Inglés:
http://www.franzlee.org/pandemonium01308.html
*Nota del traductor. 'Kaffir' es el termino despectivo con el que los blancos sudafricanos se referían a la mayoría sudafricana originaria,
(Traducido por Jesús Nery Barrios)

Aprendiendo de Carlos Marx: ¿Qué es la ideología?

Por: Franz J. T. Lee

 

 Desde casi una década de la existencia de la  Revolución Bolivariana, en toda Venezuela, en casi todos nuestros discursos políticos, estamos utilizando libremente el concepto ‘ideología’. La gran mayoría de nosotros no tenemos ni la más mínima noción del origen del concepto, de la ‘idea’ (Plato), del ‘logos’ o ‘nous’ (Anaxágoras) y de la ‘ideología’ misma (la primera vez utilizado por Francis Bacon). A diario, al escuchar esta palabra y el contexto en el que se utiliza, me doy cuenta de los fatales efectos ideológicos y prácticos que la lógica formal ya ha causado en muchas de nuestras mentes.

 

En lo que al concepto de la ideología se refiere, triunfa la lógica formal, es decir, ‘A’ es igual a ‘A’; cualquier cosa es ‘A’, lo establecido, el status quo, el orden mundial. Sí, ideología es ideología. Todo el mundo produce ideología. Las ideas de los campesinos, aquellas de los trabajadores, de los marxistas, al igual que aquellas de los fascistas y del racismo, todo es ideología. Así que, todas las clases producen ideología y todas las revoluciones producen ideología. También nosotros aquí decimos y reclamamos que necesitamos una ideología, una ideología revolucionaria, nuestra propia ideología. Pero si aquí también produjéramos ideología, no sería ni algo nuevo, ni innovador, ni creativo. No llegaríamos nunca al campo de la teoría revolucionaria socialista ni al de la filosofía emancipatoria.

 

Este tipo de razonamiento ocurre también con conceptos como ‘democracia’, ‘revolución’ y ‘socialismo’, que aparecen en millones de discursos alrededor del planeta en boca de representantes de todas las clases sociales y en los cerebros de los que conforman los llamados think tanks, las ‘fábricas de pensamiento’. Los trabajadores y los pobres en general no comen ni beben ‘ideología’, la ideología no produce nada para ellos. De hecho, están enfermos y cansados de la ideología y de los partidos.

 

Por eso, no es extraño que la única ideología que ha funcionado, que funciona y sigue funcionando con perfección sea la burgués-democrático-capitalista, que sirve a los intereses de clase del globofascismo.

 

Claro, podemos continuar con nuestras queridas ideologías y darles el contenido que deseamos, más sin embargo, deberíamos estudiar nuestras antiguas lógicas, la lógica formal y la dialéctica, para entender lo que es la ideología y cómo funciona. Además, ya es tiempo de desarrollar una nueva lógica emancipatoria global, que incluya todo tipo de pensar lógico y que sobrepase la formal y la dialéctica. Sólo de esta manera podemos trascender los peligros de la ideología y su práctica correspondiente, y crear una nueva ciencia y filosofía que supere el newspeak (nuevo lenguaje) actual de Orwell junto con su ‘holocausto mental’. Hemos tratado estos asuntos en comentarios anteriores, y aquí sólo elaboraremos un resumen del temprano concepto marxista de la ideología, que nos ayuda a nosotros, los socialistas bolivarianos, a desarrollar una incisión científica creadora y una precisión filosófica creativa. 1)

 

El concepto de la ideología definitivamente es uno de los términos más controversiales que refleja las relaciones desiguales del mercado mundial y como expresado en la superestructura clasista del capitalismo mundial. Sin embargo, para nosotros, las clases trabajadoras a nivel global, a quienes nunca se nos permitió participar activamente en la formulación de ideología alguna, esta palabra tiene un sabor negativo. Especialmente en la época de la conquista colonial, se convirtió en un instrumento dominante muy efectivo y eficiente del control mental, de la discriminación racista y de un holocausto mental, que dura hasta el día de hoy.

 

En la actualidad, como lo comprueban los feroces ataques ideológicos contra el gobierno democrático de Venezuela, la ideología de la clase dominante, diseminada por todos los grandes medios de comunicación de masas, genera una gran barbarie mental globalizada; busca eliminar cualquier chispa revolucionaria crítica que pudiera haber existido en un pasado, en cuanto al concepto de la ideología.

 

Aquí trataremos el significado negativo del concepto ideología, como lo explica también el temprano Marx. Un cuidadoso estudio del concepto de la ideología del ‘joven’ Marx (1840-1867) nos ayudaría ciertamente en identificar los gigantescos obstáculos contrarrevolucionarios, que hoy siguen obstruyendo la creación de una negación revolucionaria de la ideología y práctica capitalista, es decir, que inhiben la creación de una práxis y teoría emancipatoria en Venezuela. La basura ideológica y práctica del pasado puntofijista sigue ocupando nuestras mentes y muchas de nuestras acciones, como herencia de la explotación y dominación neocolonial.

 

Primero, históricamente nuestro querido concepto de ‘ideología’ siempre fue relacionado con Europa, con el advenimiento del capitalismo, con las luchas de clase alrededor de la Revolución Francesa, la Revolución Industrial y las revoluciones de 1830. Fue el filósofo británico, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), quien por primera vez utilizó el término ‘ideología’ en su doctrina filosófica de los ‘ídolos’. Luego fue el aristócrata y filósofo del sensualismo de la Ilustración Francesa, Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, Compte de Tracy (1754-1836), quien apoyó los derechos burgueses de la propiedad privada y la política económica clásica liberal, y quien en su extensa obra “Eléments d’idéologie” (elementos de la ideología), acuñó el término filosófico de la ‘ideología’. En su sociedad de 'ideólogos', fundada en Auteuil, en esencia, la ideología fue considerada como 'ciencia de las ideas'. En aquellos días, cuando la burguesía todavía era débil y joven, también sus conceptos todavía eran frescos. Mientras tanto, vivimos en una cultura burguesa decadente y moribunda cuyos productos intelectuales son nada más que arsenales de armas de destrucción masiva. Una de estas armas está apuntada a la mente humana como newspeak, como ideología.

 

Durante el siglo XVIII habían dos corrientes filosóficas que influyeron directamente en la concepción de la ideología: el materialismo mecánico burgués y la filosofía idealista de la ‘conciencia’ alemana. Ambas tendencias reflejaron las nuevas ideas de la clase burguesa emergente. La primera fue dirigida contra la religión y la metafísica feudal, la última contra la epistemología idealista tradicional.

 

Mucho antes de Marx y Engels, ya en el siglo XVII, el empíricista Francis Bacon divorció elegantemente la filosofía de la teología, rompió el vínculo acientífico entre la filosofía natural y la religión, y por consiguiente, disoció la razón burguesa de la fe feudal.

 

Hace dos décadas, en mi libro Teoría-Práxis de la Revolución-Emancipación, traté de explicar cómo se debe entender la concepción de Marx en cuanto a la 'ideología':

 

“Aunque existan numerosas ambigüedades dentro del concepto de ideología de Marx, este esencialmente es un término negativo. Es sumamente difícil interpretar sistemática y científicamente el concepto de ideología del propio Marx. En ninguno de sus escritos analizó, ni específica ni extensamente a este concepto; sólo en algunos trabajos de diferentes períodos aparecen varias referencias dispersas, por lo que estos textos son imprescindibles para entenderlo; por el contrario, en El Capital, no está utilizando este concepto. En efecto, desde 1859 en adelante, Marx utilizó el concepto de ideología muy raras veces.” 2)

 

En sus primeros escritos, especialmente en la 'Crítica del Derecho del Estado Hegeliano' (1843) y en su Prólogo a la 'Contribución a la Crítica de la Economía Política' (1844), Marx ya había anticipado el concepto de ideología como una noción crítica. En estos escritos fueron sentadas las bases para el futuro concepto crítico de la ideología. Tiene que ver con la crítica de Marx a la religión y a la concepción hegeliana del Estado. En ambos casos, él indicó que el problema real es la "inversión en el pensamiento" que oculta la naturaleza verdadera de las cosas y de las realidades sociales.

 

Esto es la verdadera esencia contrarrevolucionaria del asunto que nos toca aquí en Venezuela, es decir, la imposibilidad de crear nuevas ideas, de tomar pasos militantes hacia el horizonte, donde nunca antes habíamos estado, hasta ahora. Muchos de nosotros todavía tenemos problemas con la acción y el pensamiento dialéctico, tenemos problemas en ver lo que es la religión mundial en realidad, y lo que son sus implicaciones ideológicas históricas. Marx explicó:

 

“No fue la caída de las antiguas religiones la que causó la caída de los Estados antiguos, sino la caída de los Estados antiguos la que ha causado la caída de las antiguas religiones (...).

 

Por lo tanto, los filósofos no brotan como hongos del suelo; sino que son productos de su época, de la nación cuyos zumos más sutiles, valiosos e invisibles fluyen en las ideas de la filosofía (...).

 

La filosofía no existe fuera del mundo, de manera análoga, como el cerebro no existe fuera del hombre, porque no está ubicado en el estómago (...) En vista de que cada filosofía verdadera es la quinta esencia de su época, debería llegar la época cuando la filosofía, no sólo interiormente, debido a su contenido, sino también exteriormente, debido a su forma, hace contacto y produce una interacción con el mundo real existente”. 3)

 

Tres años después, Marx explicó, cómo la ideología invierte la realidad, produciendo una realidad virtual. Esto nos explica también, cómo la propaganda ideológica de la ‘oposición’ (como por ejemplo el canal televisivo RCTV), confundieron a millones de personas, envenenando sus mentes con mentiras anti-gobierno. El único remedio contra la ideología dominante es la conciencia de clase, es la verdad proletaria:

 

“La consciencia no puede ser nunca otra cosa que el ser consciente, y el ser de los hombres es su proceso de vida real, y si en toda la ideología los hombres y sus relaciones aparecen invertidos como una cámara oscura, este fenómeno responde a su proceso histórico de vida, como la inversión de los objetos, al proyectarse sobre la retina, responde a su proceso de vida directamente físico”. 4)

 

Según Marx, el fundamento del criticismo no religioso contra la ideología y todo tipo de creencias fantásticas es el siguiente:

 

“Es el hombre que hace la religión, no es la religión que hace al hombre. De verdad, la religión es la auto consciencia y la auto estima del hombre, el cual no se encontró a sí mismo o se volvió a perder a sí mismo”. 5)

 

La ideología convierte e invierte al individuo en una entidad abstracta, que no tiene consciencia social, conciencia de clase o existencia terrenal. El individuo se atomiza y se convierte en un soberano, que ni siquiera sabe, quién o qué es, es decir, se convierte en un simple trabajador explotado, dominado y discriminado en un orden mundial capitalista. Así que, el individuo colonizado se ve obligado de buscar alivio en el ámbito religioso de las fantasías e ilusiones, al que tanto defendemos y salvaguardamos la mayoría de nosotros, para no perder el apoyo popular. Pero es únicamente la verdad la que puede garantizar la solidaridad en masa de los trabajadores.

 

Marx explicó:

 

“Pero el hombre no es un ser abstracto; acampando fuera del mundo concreto. El hombre es el mundo de los hombres, del Estado, de la sociedad. Este Estado, esta sociedad, producen la religión, una consciencia del mundo invertida; porque ellos constituyen un mundo invertido (...) (La religión) es la realización fantástica de la esencia humana, porque la esencia humana no tiene realidad verdadera. Por consiguiente, la lucha contra la religión forma parte, indirectamente, de la lucha contra un mundo cuyo aroma espiritual es la religión misma” 6)

 

Marx explicó muy claramente las relaciones y funciones sociales de la religión que son idénticas a aquellas de la ideología dominante, con la única diferencia de que la ideología fascista Orwelliana moderna es más sofisticada, más tecnológica, más letal; con la ayuda de las armas electro-magnéticas y de proyectos como HAARP, se da a la tarea de destruir mentes humanas. Resulta muy indignante escuchar y leer el veneno mortal, que tantos oponentes de la Revolución Bolivariana firmemente adoctrinados están vomitando a diario. Por otro lado, es trágico ver, cómo muchos de nuestros camaradas jóvenes, a quienes nunca se les enseñó el marxismo y quienes todavía se encuentran en un enorme abismo de una ignorancia planificada, reproducen inocentemente propaganda anti-marxista al estilo de Goebbels, y atacan el comunismo con los mismos lemas ideológicos de la ‘Guerra Fría’, que vienen a diario de las fábricas de los think tanks del tío Sam y de los medios de comunicación de masas de la desinformación del Señor Murdoch y de la compañía Time-Warner.

 

Ahora bien y para evitar una gran confusión, ¿cómo diferenciamos científicamente nuestra ideología de esta ideología? ¿Por qué llamar nuestra teoría y nuestra filosofía revolucionaria también ideología? Es una tarea, la cual tenemos que atender con urgencia. Marx enfatizó que la religión (también la ideología) es la ‘inversión’ de la realidad socio-histórica:

 

“La zozobra religiosa es al mismo tiempo la expresión de la miseria real, y también la protesta contra el dolor real. La religión es el suspiro de la criatura oprimida, el corazón de un mundo sin corazón, lo mismo que el espíritu de condiciones abatidas. Es el opio del pueblo”. 7)

 

No cabe duda que en América Latina, África y Asia, la frase "opio del pueblo", originalmente utilizado por el obispo británico Charles Kingsley, mantiene su plena vigencia filosófico-teórico y práxica: “Hemos utilizado la Biblia como si fuese un simple manual policíaco especial, como una dosis de opio para mantener pacientes a los animales de carga mientras que están siendo sobrecargados.” 8)

 

Con su espíritu revolucionario característico, Marx consiguió determinar la esencia religiosa y su relación ideológica:

 

“Tratar de abolir la religión como felicidad ilusoria del pueblo es al mismo tiempo exigir su felicidad real. Exigir abandonar las ilusiones generales sobre el status quo existente es la demanda por desistir de una realidad social que necesita ilusiones. Sin embargo, en embrión, el criticismo de la religión es el criticismo del valle de lágrimas, cuya aureola es la religión”. 9)

 

El filósofo marxista Ernst Bloch nos explicó que la crítica de Marx está enfocada contra una realidad ideológicamente invertida, por lo tanto, la ‘cadena’ real y sus ‘flores imaginarias’ deberían ser destruidas, para capacitar a nosotros, a los revolucionarios de Venezuela y del mundo para emanciparnos de “la cadena y recobrar la flor de la vida” (Marx). La cadena es la ideología, es la superestructura mundial actual, imperialista, corporativa. Tenemos que reemplazarla con una nueva lógica, ciencia, filosofía y emancipación creadora creativa.

 

Finalmente, hablando de lo nuevo, su base natural y social es hacer algo realmente nuevo, algo que nunca hemos hecho anteriormente, es decir, algo que nunca hemos pensado antes, es cruzar el Rubicón, es sobrepasar toda ideología y práctica explotadora y entrar en el mundo práxico-teórico científico-filosófico de la emancipación humana.  Así, nuestra crítica “(...) del cielo se convierte en el criticismo de la Tierra, el criticismo de la religión en el criticismo del derecho, y el criticismo de la teología en el criticismo de la política”. 10)

 

Notas

 

1) Véase: http://www.geocities.com/juschmi/teopind.html

2) Véase: http://www.geocities.com/juschmi/teocap7.html#c75

3) Véase: Marx, Karl; Editorial en el periódico, Kölnische Zeitung, No. 79,

     julio de 1842.

4) Véase: Marx, Karl y Engels, Friedrich; La Ideología Alemana. México: Ed.

     de Cultura Popular, Segunda Edición, 1970, p. 26.

5) Véase: Marx, Karl; "Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of

     Law. Introduction", en: Marx / Engels, On Religion. Moscú: Progress

     Publishers, 1975, p. 38, traducción nuestra.

6) ibid.

7) ibid.

8) Original en inglés: We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special

     constable’s handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden

     patient while they are being overloaded;  Charles Kingsley (1819–1875),

     "Letter to the Chartists", en: Politics for the People, No. 4, May 27, 1848,

     London)

9) Marx, Contribution to the Critique… op.cit.

10) ibid.

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¿Cómo funciona la Ideología?

 Por: Franz J. T. Lee

 ¿Sabían ustedes que ya en la ‘República’ de Platón se habían decretado relaciones amo-esclavo dentro de la jerarquía filosófica y una especie de apartheid? Y ¿nos hemos dado cuenta que hasta el día de hoy se preservan estos fenómenos a través de una sofisticada ideología dominante?

 

Como nos explica la tercera sección de la ‘República’, que trata de la educación, es precisamente ahí donde se permite la censura por parte del Estado, y así se consagran todo tipo de verdades a medias y mentiras blancas y negras, que siempre han conformado la sagrada primogenitura de todo político de la clase dominante.

 

En la época de la acumulación original del capital en la Grecia Antigua esto significó el nacimiento de la ideología dominante dentro de la filosofía política, de la doctrina de las ideas de Platón, de su inteligible topos ouranios, del summum bonum aristocrático y de la polis. Cada vez que hablemos de la ‘ideología socialista’, deberíamos recordar este dudoso origen transhistórico de la idea, del logos y de la ideología misma. Sin caer en la sofistería o en la semántica de un sabelotodo, por razones emancipatorias, en esta etapa de la Revolución Bolivariana, es pertinente clarificar el concepto de la ideología. Ni con la ideología ni con la práctica correspondiente se puede derrocar el fascismo mundial actual.

Diariamente el newspeak orweliano del consumismo nos capta a muchos de nosotros en sus garras ideológicas genocidas. Muy tácitamente estamos siendo tragados por un activismo miope, que en el interior de nosotros siembra un odio hacia la reflexión intelectual, hacia el pensar y la teoría.

 

Para las mega-ganancias del imperialismo corporativo es menester que los trabajadores nunca sepan que son explotados, dominados, discriminados, masacrados y alienados por el sistema capitalista en Venezuela y en todas partes del mundo. Garantizar este crimen a través del control mental es la función principal de la ideología, de las ideas dominantes de las clases dominantes.

 

De esta manera nos volvemos pro-capitalistas, anti-sociales, anti-socialistas y anti-marxistas, es decir, nos convertimos en víctimas de una maquinaria corporativa globalizada. Esta actitud ideológica impide el desarrollo de una conciencia del trabajador, de una conciencia de clase aquí en Venezuela y en otras partes del mundo.

 

Pero ¿por qué Lenin enfatizó: sin teoría no hay revolución?

 

No dijo “sin ideología no hay revolución”. Además estaba hablando de la revolución socialista. ¿O será que la teoría revolucionaria, al igual que la lucha de clases y el marxismo, ya está completamente obsoleta?  ¿Será que lo que está a la orden del día son la globalización, el neoliberalismo y las innovaciones ideológicas? Sabemos que Lenin definitivamente no fue un filósofo en una torre de marfil. No bebía vodka importado en el frente de batalla.

 

Toda ideología siempre termina tergiversando la realidad de clase, falsificando las ideas y los actos de los oponentes de clase. A nivel psicológico la ideología niega la verdadera lucha de clases. Aunque los trabajadores venezolanos participan permanentemente en una lucha de clases, cuya máxima expresión se pudo verificar en los acontecimientos del 2002, ¿quién les explica actualmente lo que es la lucha de clases, lo que están haciendo y pensando? ¿No es esta la tarea de un partido socialista de vanguardia que surja de la clase trabajadora misma? ¿O será que esto se puede lograr mediante una ideología producida por el gobierno mismo o de los intelectuales de la 'oposición' democrática, quienes por lo general distorsionan la lucha de clases?

 

Claro está, los sociólogos oficiales nos responderán que nuestro único problema es el ‘conflicto social’, o que nuestra ‘sociedad venezolana está en riesgo’, que la guerra en el Oriente Medio es un choque de civilizaciones, el choque de religiones y de ideologías. Quizás esta es la razón de por qué aquí en Venezuela la ‘ideología’, o mejor dicho la teoría marxista es incompatible con nuestro socialismo cristiano. Ciertamente tenemos que re-pensar seriamente nuestras visiones dentro del contexto de nuestra Revolución Bolivariana de cara al futuro.

 

El moderno newspeak  yanqui especialmente se niega a aceptar el paradigma venezolano de la democracia participativa y protagónica. Ahora veremos quiénes más prefieren hablar de la práxis y la teoría revolucionaria, en vez de la ideología, porque saben qué es la ideología.

 

En la noche del viernes primero de julio de 2005, entre las 10 p. m. y la medianoche, estuve viendo y escuchando el programa ‘Dossier’ de Walter Martínez en Venezolana de Televisión, donde entrevistó en vivo al Presidente cubano Fidel Castro. La discusión fue súper informativa y trató eventos mundiales actuales de aquel entonces, y también temas como la religión y la revolución socialista.

 

Fue un gran placer escuchar hablar a un líder mundial moderno, que llama al pan, pan, en una conversación que tardó dos horas, y donde Fidel no utilizó ni una sola vez el concepto ‘ideología’, para no confundirlo con la práxis y la teoría científica y filosófica. De manera similar tampoco distorsionó el marxismo; no lo convirtió en una caricatura de la negación del capitalismo, llamándolo socialismo estalinista real existente o ideología. Esto fue realmente una extraordinaria excepción revolucionaria, que dio testimonio de que en América Latina Fidel estudió el marxismo muy diligentemente, aprendió bastante de él y lo aplicó científicamente a la realidad global contemporánea, a la emancipación humana. 1)

 

Por otro lado, fueron docenas las veces que utilizó el término ‘teoría’, donde otros hubiesen preferido el resbaladizo concepto de ‘ideología’. De hecho, sí se escuchó varias veces la palabra ‘ideología’, pero de la boca de Walter Martínez.

 

Debe ser interesante lo que el Presidente Hugo Chávez y el Presidente Fidel Castro han discutido sobre teoría e ideología en los últimos días, especialmente en una discusión de cuatro horas de duración.

Por cierto, una conditio sine qua non para conocer el socialismo, es conocer el capitalismo; además, conocer la ideología reformista es conocer la teoría revolucionaria, el marxismo. El que no estudió el marxismo, o que sabe muy poco sobre el socialismo científico y filosófico, no puede llamarse marxista, ni siquiera puede criticar el marxismo, y mucho menos declararlo obsoleto. Ciertamente no serán ni la ignorancia intencional ni la inercia mental para estudiar más de 50 volúmenes de los escritos de Marx (o por lo menos la mitad de ellos), ni el opio ideológico o el prozac religioso los que nos ayudarán en crear un hombre nuevo, una nueva lógica liberadora, una ciencia natural innovadora y una nueva filosofía socialista. Tampoco iluminará el peligroso y sangriento camino de Venezuela y las Américas hacia la emancipación humana.

 

Aquí en Venezuela, aunque la ideología capitalista las distorsiona como nunca antes, las contradicciones sociales se están profundizando. El propio término ‘ideología’, como lo pinta la ‘oposición’ en sus medios de comunicación locales, nacionales e internacionales, revela cada vez más su verdadera esencia confusa; escupe día y noche el odio de la clase dominante, la distorsión y la segregación, y en consecuencia nubla progresivamente la realidad venezolana hacia el mundo exterior. Sus mentiras descaradas se repiten tantas veces en la prensa mundial hasta que se convierten en parte intrínseca de una ideología fascista, de la superestructura, hasta que los mismos mentirosos comienzan a creer en sus propias mentiras, reportajes y ‘noticias’, y a verse a sí mismos como ángeles blancos y democráticos. Ellos han perdido la capacidad mental de criticar y de diferenciar entre la virtualidad y la actualidad, entre el delirio fantástico y la realidad concreta, entre el amo y el esclavo. En realidad pierden la differentia specifica de la especie humana: el pensamiento racional.

 

Mediante la ideología se distorsionan a ellos mismos y desfiguran la verdad. 2)

 

Al final se auto-exilian en Miami, creyéndose los perros guardianes del orden mundial, como la Gestapo o los jinetes del imperialismo corporativo: Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Microsoft, etc. Estos creyentes fanáticos, con el cerebro lavado, nunca podrán ver a Chávez o a los revolucionarios y socialistas bolivarianos en su justa dimensión, solamente ven un fantasma que recorre el globo entero, un peligro mortal, de la misma manera como ven y descalifican a los ‘árabes infieles’, los ‘negros desterrados’, los ‘parásitos castro-comunistas’, los judíos, las mujeres, los indígenas, los gitanos y los ‘parias inferiores’.

 

Este es el producto intelectual final que, a través de los tiempos, nos dejó la ideología dominante.

 

Pero podemos aprender mucho de Marx y del verdadero marxismo en torno a la ideología y la crítica de la misma. Por eso la ideología difama al socialismo científico y filosófico, o sea, la negación del capitalismo. Recordemos una vez más, que en su ‘Ideología Alemana’ Marx explicó con precisión dialéctica lo que es la ideología o la llamada ‘ciencia de las ideas’:

 

“Las ideas de la clase dominante son las ideas dominantes en cada época o, dicho en otros términos, la clase que ejerce el poder material dominante en la sociedad es, al mismo tiempo, su poder espiritual dominante.” 3)

 

Durante siglos esto fue (y sigue siendo) válido para todos los países del planeta, incluyendo a Venezuela. Esta es la realidad de la esclavitud, del feudalismo, del capitalismo, del fascismo y del ‘socialismo real existente’, es decir, del estalinismo: es el amo el que piensa, el que planifica y controla a sus esclavos; el esclavo, a su vez, trabaja duro y defiende al amo y a su propiedad privada con su propia vida. El esclavo asalariado de la modernidad no forma parte del poder material progresivo de la sociedad, no posee los medios de producción como propiedad privada, por lo tanto, no participa en la ‘democracia’, en la producción de ideas, en el pensar, en la ideología. Sí participa en el trabajo humano, en el activismo físico ciego; se le enseña a odiar el pensar, la teoría y la filosofía.

 

Cuando se inició la Revolución Bolivariana hace casi una década atrás, en 1998, un 85% de la población total venezolana (de 24 millones para entonces) se encontraba en condiciones de pobreza crítica. No fueron las masas laborales las que produjeron la ideología capitalista, que controla la cultura, la religión, la educación y la socialización, sino una pequeña elite de la clase dominante, que junto al poder imperialista corporativo extranjero saqueó la riqueza del país y su pueblo. La Revolución Bolivariana introdujo un programa a gran escala para promover viviendas propias, salud y educación popular.

 

En consecuencia, hasta el día de hoy, las masas laborales venezolanas están agradecidas y le demuestran su lealtad al Presidente Chávez; lo apoyan por millones, porque simplemente aman a su ‘comandante’, y aman a su revolución. Hay un gigantesco agradecimiento popular hacia un presidente que, gracias a la prosperidad petrolera, está en condiciones de poder hacer algo concreto para su pueblo. Para esas masas laborales es irrelevante lo que nosotros o la prensa mundial en Washington piensan de todo esto.

 

Lo que los pobres y los trabajadores venezolanos sienten y piensan a estas alturas no es precisamente ideología; al contrario, ellos representan el suelo fértil para la semilla germinante, el vientre de una venidera conciencia de clase, de la cual nos habló Marx.

 

Marx describió el crimen intelectual del capitalismo de la manera siguiente:

 

“La clase que tiene a su disposición los medios para la producción material dispone con ello, al mismo tiempo, de los medios para la producción espiritual, lo que hace que se le sometan, al propio tiempo, por término medio, las ideas de quienes carecen de los medios necesarios para producir espiritualmente. Las ideas dominantes no son otra cosa que la expresión ideal de las relaciones materiales dominantes, las mismas relaciones materiales dominantes concebidas como ideas; por tanto, las relaciones que hacen de una determinada clase la clase dominante, o sea, las ideas de su dominación.” 4)

 

Entonces, en una sociedad capitalista, ¿cuál es la pre-condición para producir ideas dominantes, para acuñar e imprimir ideología? Para esto se necesita, entre otras cosas, la existencia de una clase dominante, cuyos miembros son capaces de pensar, a quienes se les permite pensar y los cuales son capaces de adquirir una conciencia de clase dominante.

 

Es evidente que en Venezuela no se podía desarrollar algo como una ideología socialista. La tarea del socialismo no es la de crear clases medias o altas dominantes. El socialismo se aproximó a Cuba, pero nunca conquistó el poder mundial, y todavía está muy lejos de conseguir su meta histórica en Venezuela. También las clases dominantes del pasado eran todo menos socialistas científicos y filosóficos, es decir, no eran marxistas.

 

Si nuestros socialistas bolivarianos necesitan o no una ideología revolucionaria, si necesitamos una filosofía emancipatoria, una práxis y teoría revolucionaria, en lugar de una ideología, esto lo decidirán el futuro rumbo de la Revolución Bolivariana y las luchas de clase en las Américas. El socialismo involucra todas las contradicciones y relaciones sociales en la sociedad capitalista, en primer lugar, aquellas de los trabajadores explotados, dominados y discriminados. Es su lucha de clase la que será decisiva. Las máquinas y las computadoras son bienes de consumo, ellas no producen plusvalía; en cambio, las fuerzas físicas e intelectuales de los trabajadores alrededor del globo siguen produciendo ganancias, capital, riqueza y poder.

 

Además, las clases dominantes a nivel global no sólo producen ideología, sino también ideólogos y think tanks, y quién sabe, probablemente ya clonan pensadores inocentes como monstruos intelectuales al estilo de Frankenstein, como ‘máquinas con interfaz humana’.

 

En las escuelas, universidades y otras instituciones educativas, continúa el proceso de la deshumanización, como Marx enfatizó:

“… es auto-evidente que lo hacen en todos los ámbitos así que, entre otras cosas, también dominan como pensadores, como productores de ideas, y regulan la producción y la distribución de las ideas de su época: por lo tanto, sus ideas son las ideas dominantes de la época.” 5)

 

Nuestras posibilidades de publicar hechos y datos verdaderos sobre nuestra realidad venezolana son extremadamente limitadas, además de sólo representar unas pocas gotas sobre la lava ideológica del imperio de Murdoch y otras agencias de noticias internacionales. Para poder parar estos buldózers ideológicos es necesario que todo el mundo, incluyendo al gobierno bolivariano, nos brinde urgentemente ayuda material. Necesitamos armas teóricas de defensa masiva, de emancipación global; necesitamos la educación y la formación adecuada, necesitamos periodistas auténticos, recursos financieros y los correspondientes fondos regulares.

 

Esto nunca se puede tratar de un asunto personal, sino de una gigantesca guerra contra el holocausto mental, como lo pronosticó George Orwell, y el cual nos devora uno por uno, segundo tras segundo, en dondequiera que sea. Tener algunos periódicos, un puño de páginas web, una mínima cobertura por radio o televisión, algunas computadoras o megáfonos, en fin, tener instrumentos comunicacionales que equivalen más bien a señales de humo y palomas mensajeras, aunque son esfuerzos heroicos y leales, jamás nos garantizarán el triunfo de Venezuela y del socialismo bolivariano frente a la actual y feroz ‘guerra de las ideas’, y menos aún el triunfo contra las armas electromagnéticas para el control y la destrucción mental, contra el ‘dominio de pleno espectro’ yanqui, o contra el ‘humanismo militar’, es decir, contra el terrorismo globofascista.

 

Es tiempo que la Revolución Bolivariana haga algo contra la ideología imperialista mundial, contra su Talón de Aquiles.

 

No importa cómo tratemos de revelar de manera permanente la esencia fascista de las ideas dominantes, publicando la verdad sobre Venezuela y defendiendo su democracia, las primeras impresiones, como las divulgan los magnates de la desinformación, siempre son las impresiones con más repercusión. Resulta sumamente difícil explicarles a miles de millones de personas que el Presidente Chávez no es ningún Pinochet, Batista, Idi Amin o Mobutu. Nuestros medios de información solamente alcanzan una fracción infinitesimal del público mundial, y además con la limitante de los pocos idiomas que se manejan ahí.

 

En toda Europa se guarda silencio, hay un apagón en torno a la información veraz sobre Venezuela. Existe una censura estricta sobre cualquier noticia ‘positiva’ de Venezuela. Obviamente cualquier mentira sobre “Chávez el dictador, tirano y terrorista internacional” goza de alta prioridad en los titulares de las noticias internacionales. En este caso, Chávez incluso le gana a Bush en favoritismo, en cuanto al newspeak metropolitano al que Orwell se refiere.

 

Esto es ideología, y así funciona.

 

Mientras las ideas dominantes siguen siendo las ideas de las clases dominantes a nivel mundial, Fidel y Chávez, las víctimas de la ideología, tendrán que esperar la victoria de las luchas de clase proletarias, para ser absueltos como ‘terroristas’. La historia actual no logrará este milagro, porque sigue siendo el proceso del trabajo explotado, el proceso de producción capitalista, hecho por grandes dioses, grandes ideas, grandes hombres y por una gran ideología, la cual la inventan grandes razas, preferiblemente compuestas de ‘bellezas europeas’ blancas, rubias y con ojos azules.

 

Un excelente ejemplo de cuan peligrosa es la ideología es cuando les pido a mis estudiantes que formulen una sola idea o un solo pensamiento realmente nuevo, original y propio, es decir, algo que nadie haya formulado nunca antes, y algo que represente un verdadero reflejo de su realidad actual. Algunos hacen esfuerzos realmente duros, pero al final tienen que tirar la toalla en la arena de la ideología dominante. Por mis clases y seminarios han pasado grandes bolivarianos, chavistas, gobernadores y embajadores, y hasta el día de hoy la mayoría de ellos todavía me debe este pensamiento revolucionario nuevo, original y auténtico. Esperemos que ahora, cuando están siendo enriquecidos y motivados por la Revolución Bolivariana, logren superar sus barreras teóricas intelectuales, y pronto den a luz al nuevo hombre socialista.

 

Sin embargo, algunos estudiantes realmente brillantes, me devolvieron la pregunta de manera desesperada. En mis clases les enseñé palabras e ideas, que en los diccionarios oficiales y en nuestro vocabulario diario brillan por su ausencia como: exvolución, exformación, trialógica, triferencia, chispas transhistóricas, esencia humana, existencia humana, trascendencia humana, la trinidad humana creativa, el holocausto mental, etc., etc. De hecho les enseñé lo que estoy enseñando todo el tiempo, desde hace décadas. En todo caso es lo mismo que estoy hablando en mis charlas o publicando en Internet.

 

Es esto lo que necesitamos para poder contrarrestar la ideología fascista.

 

Esto es práxis y teoría revolucionaria, por cierto, dos conceptos que el Presidente Chávez también utiliza de vez en cuando en sus discursos ante la nación.

 

Notas

 

1) Véase: http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=40074

2) Ver: http://www.geocities.com/juschmi/teopind.html

3) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-

     ideology/ch01b.htm )

4) ibid.

5) ibid.

 

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