[DEBATE] : Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution at a Turning Point

[Dominic Tweedie]

The Venezuelan masses wisely rejected the centralisation of the
revolution in the state.

It is not that they expect the state to "deliver" everything, and
therefore boycotted Chavez to send him a message of dissatisfaction
about the state, i.e. that there was too little state. That is the
reverse of the truth.

Revolutionaries have concluded that the state is a bourgeois state
that must be managed and contained, and then outflanked in the
fullness of time.

The Bolivarian organs of popular dual power created in Venezuela
should by no means be collapsed into a monolithic state, whether it is
one with a socialist label or not.

This is the lesson that the Venezuelan masses wanted Hugo Chavez to
absorb. It looks like he has done so.

Gregory Wilpert is a state centralist blogger whose writing has been
quoted in aid of the "Alliance Pact" theses within COSATU in South
Africa. Yet it should be clear by now, and was clear to the Venezuelan
electorate, that there is no such thing as a socialist state, never
was, and never could be. "Socialist state" is a contradiction in
terms.

Socialism is merely a transition. The instrument of transition is not
monolithic power, as Chavez had imagined, and as COSATU imagines in
terms of the Alliance as "political centre".

The instrument of transition is dual power. The Venezuelans were wise,
and positive, not grumpy and negative as Wilpert would have it. South
Africans should follow the example of the Venezuelan people.

Yours in struggle.




On 09/01/2008, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
> <http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3042>
> Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution at a Turning Point
> January 7th 2008, by Gregory Wilpert



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