http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/the-debate-sharpens-in-venezuela/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:03:28 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/the-debate-sharpens-in-venezuela/#comment-18040 Chris Crass Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:24:48 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/the-debate-sharpens-in-venezuela/#comment-18040 It's pretty amazing how right Bakunin was. It’s pretty amazing how right Bakunin was.

]]> http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/the-debate-sharpens-in-venezuela/#comment-18031 Ron Horn Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:24:08 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/the-debate-sharpens-in-venezuela/#comment-18031 Excellent article from a journalist that I regard as the most objective observer of the fascinating events in Venezuela. It seems to me that so many issues related to overturning a capitalist system exist in this small country and thus provides a living laboratory for examining revolutionary issues. The early Marxist critics of Chavez's Socialism for the 21st Century refused to take it seriously because of their view that socialist forces can never leave the capitalist infrastructure intact, that capitalists will never allow any peaceful development of a socialist system within its framework. It's beginning to look like they were right. Still I wouldn't count out the masses of people in Venezuela who have experienced many years of capitalist oppression and have recently tasted the sweet nectar of power, literacy, free education, health care, etc. Revolutionary struggle never proceeds in a straight line. Excellent article from a journalist that I regard as the most objective observer of the fascinating events in Venezuela. It seems to me that so many issues related to overturning a capitalist system exist in this small country and thus provides a living laboratory for examining revolutionary issues. The early Marxist critics of Chavez’s Socialism for the 21st Century refused to take it seriously because of their view that socialist forces can never leave the capitalist infrastructure intact, that capitalists will never allow any peaceful development of a socialist system within its framework. It’s beginning to look like they were right. Still I wouldn’t count out the masses of people in Venezuela who have experienced many years of capitalist oppression and have recently tasted the sweet nectar of power, literacy, free education, health care, etc. Revolutionary struggle never proceeds in a straight line.

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