Wednesday, March 13, 2019

About revolutions and conspiracies


On the subject of Venezuela and its critical situation, at the international political level, obviously there are divergent opinions. First of all we should remember the suspicious way the Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez died or was poisconed. We should not forget that other leaders suffered "cancer" simultaneously, such as Lula, Dilma, Lugo, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat).
The present geopolical context has developed with regimes that came from revolutionary processes, such as armed rebel movements (Cuba) or an internal rebellion in the army (Venezuela).
They are regimes inspired by socialist ideas, which are based fundamentally on the control of the state institutions and production. These revolutionary regimes are above all statist (with their advantages and disadvantages).
There are advantages such as the redistribution of wealth and the extension of services to the most disadvantaged classes and disadvantages such as the development of bureaucratic attitudes and for that reason vulnerability to corruption. For their part, non-socialist regimes also have serious problems of corruption, but they are often accepted socially because they are considered part of the accepted practices of capitalism. Non-socialist regimes also suffer from bureaucracy but operate more effectively in the global corporate capitalist contaxt. At the same time they have numerous poor and indigent social sectors that are marginalized by the productive and distributive processes of capitalism.
Obviously, in the socialist countries the displaced burgoisie, which is often exiled abroad (in this case, Miami) conspires to recover its privileges and for that it has the collaboration of the US and other right-wing governments of Latin America and the world. The conspiracy leads to the implantation of commercial and diplomatic blockades, leading to shortages and rationing.
Logically the governments emerged from these processes tend to ally to resist (Cuba and Venezuela case) and in Venezuela, curiously win the support of Russia and China, which are no longer socialist governments but are in open competition with the US.
As usual, the Venezuelan government suffers a generalized blockade, both economic and diplomatic. There have been limitations at various levels, lack of spare parts, absemce of technical staff (who often have emigrated for economic reasons), oil monoproduction inherited from previous governments, and of course bureaucracy and almost inevitable corruption.
In these days took place a new attack of the conspiracy alliance against the socialist government of Maduro who with serious difficulties it is resisting.
Personally I had the experience of visiting Venezuela in several projects and I always noticed it as a tense society, where the dialogue between the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie with the sectors known as progressives seemed difficult. That discordance manifested and manifests itself in the recent political facts. It will be necessary to overcome them so that Venezuelan society can manage to stabilize a balanced and just society.

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