This month marked the first anniversary of Hugo Chávezs death, the revolutionary blogosphere is eulogizing him, and I thought I’d join in. First off, an important point to make before going any further is that, his death wasnt tragic because he died doing what he loved. The real tragedy is that hordes of imperial leftists in our midst are eulogizing the late legend while simultaneously distorting his ideas, watering them down, reducing them to impotence, just as the police in infiltrations and disprutions of workers unions. When Karl Marx died some of those who claimed to be his followers began to interpret his ideas in such a way as to empty them of any revolutionary content. Hence Marxs oft-quoted remark... Im not a Marxist.. he said it as a means of distancing himself from some of the most overtly opportunistic currents in social democracy, people who already in his day were busying themselves with “state socialist” schemes and looking for ways to ally themselves with the likes of Bismarck in order to reform capitalism into socialism. Im absolutely certain Comrade Chávez and the revolutionary people of Venezuela have been an inspiration to all those of us struggling against imperialism, capitalism and for a better, more human, less violent world ...but let’s take a moment to contrast his regard for liberation with that of our mainstream [read phony] left: Hugo was a fearless leader who had the guts to take the imperial monster by its horns and who showed the world (along with revolutionary Cuba) that sustained progress, development and prosperity are possible with socialistic ideologies. In spite of everything the genocidal US regime & Rothschild finance cartels did to crush him and his ambitions, the man stuck to his mandate to improve the lives of his people, from the bottom economic tier up and inspired all people around the world to fight to liberate themselves. Of particular significance is his passionate pursuit of the vision of socialism which (Bolivarianism reduced poverty in half in Venezuela) he confidently believed would be realised through the pursuit of the pro-people and anti-imperialist policies that he had put in place. Kicking off in 99, a democratically-elected Chávez started by nationalizing a large set of industries, especially those that were essential for economic and social development (in order to destroy cartelisation and illicit hoarding that have critically adverse effects on the lower strata of society), he also strategically nationalized cement companies, steel plants and supermarkets. He then swiftly nationalized the oil and gas sector, leaving Exxon-Mobil and its conglomerates completely dumfounded. So much so, under the Bolivarian revolution, he drafted trade policies that provided cheap oil to the poor — from Bronx to far-flung Gaza — something that can never and should never be expected from the so-called philanthropic capitalist nations of the West, and most of all, he exemplified genuine revolutionary solidarity as evidenced in his defense of Libya, Haiti, Belarus, Zimbabwe, Palestine, Iran and Syria against Zio-imperialist plots, conspiracies and attacks. El Comandante showed all this in the backyard of the bloody empire itself and, thus, challenged its hegemonic drive both ideologically and economically... there is no leader alive whos even half the man that Chavez was. Rest in peace, Comandante. May your policies that have lifted millions of Venezuelans out of poverty prevail into the future.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:15:11 +0000
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