CHAVISMO AS THE LAST RESOURCE OF CAPITALISM
The
true and fundamental achievement of chavismo
The most important thing realized by the chavismo is to have
served as a restraint to the possibilities of independent ascent of the masses,
in that particular chavismo was champion, managed to dismantle to the left. The
creation of the PSUV played a very important role, following that goal. It
still remains its master key, next to the Great Patriotic Pole to prevent an
autonomous organizational possibility of the most combative sectors.
The result of all this process led by Chavez was to lull the
vanguard, in the political formation changed the communist manifesto or the
conception of the state by Chávez's "immortal" speech.
The chavismo as everything is unpublished, but it was not
born of a cabbage and even it is indispensable to know a minimum the
international context where this attempt is located, the sample is in which the
oil of which we have lived, is produced for the world market, besides our
consumption, and ... for "all the saints", in the Chavismo
,historically it was the case to import derivatives to be able to make our oil
flow and extract it.
On the other hand, Cuban advice has been a determining
factor in the behavior of this government. About revolutions, when we go they
are coming. The advice, from a bureaucracy that has been maintained to this
day, is more than 50 years, less than 100 miles from the main center of the empire.
Although these Cubans are the product of a social revolution, they are already
in the process of capitalist restoration.
In Venezuela, from the beginning, Chavismo created and
controlled a series of structures where the missions, the circles, the committees,
the pioneers, the councils, the situational rooms, the co-management, were all
paraphernalia of means or forms of survival, coercion and manipulation that
diverted what could have arrived at what Cuba arrived by means of a revolution
and an essential process in the first five of the 60s, that expropriated to the
capital, the banking, the companies, the estates and also eliminated the army
Later, by intertwining with the Russian Stalinist
bureaucracy, he began on the path of "peaceful coexistence" and
support for nationalist movements and therefore limited in his nonrevolutionary
program of Allende, the Sandinistas, the Farabundo Martí Front , which led to
defeat and rise to fascism and right, today the Sandinista revolution
degenerated into an apparatus led by Daniel Ortega.
Venezuela was also influenced by certain international
processes
Throughout the world, the revolutionary setback was a
consequence of the management of the promoters of socialism in a single
country, first were the complications due to the backwardness in the means of
production that could not be solved only internally but required the assistance
or complementation in the world economy and "sine qua non" is
possible to overcome. Socialism in a single country, is a “contradictio in
terminis”, immersed as we are in a capitalist world economy
As a result, what could be avoided, fighting for world
revolution, becomes inevitable with the consolidation of a bureaucracy that
prevents both internal democracy, an elementary issue for revolutionary
development, and support for conciliatory tendencies as a revolutionary process
be given somewhere on the planet.
The bureaucracies originate as apparatuses that opt for
their survival, of course, agreeing with the counterrevolution, far from the
path of the revolutionary struggle, their existence is antagonistic with the
revolutionary advance in both the external scenarios and in their countries
where they were generated.
The product of the political and organizational failure of
the so-called communist parties under the orbit of the Moscow bureaucracy in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, and also of the fall of the USSR due to the
Stalinist bureaucracy itself, with programs reformist politicians, conciliators
and finally liquidators, these battered organizations, rather apparatuses, gave
way to "movement", the third way, praise to bourgeois democracy, all
reheated dishes of the most stale reformism with new ad hoc proposals, led by
new vanguards born of a desperate middle class, where charlatans, military,
ecologists, utopians, came to supplant the so-called communists. The moves
ended the cycle of the organization to move to lighter meetings. The whole
program was finished to respond precisely to the concerns that these new
leadership symbolized. Nothing new under the sun, but it came.
At that time in the UCV, a young and new student vanguard
originated that would replace the old bureaucrats coming from the MIR and the
MAS, and the PCV survived by inertia and the help of Moscow. The new group took
as name, movement 80, and expressed a break with all of the above and few novel
arguments. It began and developed in the late 80's and in the 90's as they
graduated, they did not create anything for continuity, which gave way to the
ultra-left mutating to the right to debut as a student leadership in higher
education in connivance now with the teachers mafias of the old right.
It also happened in the main autonomous universities of the
country, now with a vanguard directed by quasi-fascist organizations before the
political passivity of the chavismo of those spaces.
At the same time, the youth of the PSUV became the new
expression, victim of political clientelism like form as an expeditious way of
ascending to positions within the chavista nomenclature.
It is not a
coincident that a very good amount of
that "ochentista" litter accompanies Chavez, today is the Chavismo
with more lineage, of course next to the eternally saviors of the mother
country , the military establishment.
In all this so-called "process", they managed to
reduce the direct actions of the masses, independent mobilizations, strikes, by
controlling the trends prevented many genuine struggles, diverting them to the
Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, of a legislative assembly,
governorate or mayorship "protective" of the actions of the
communities.
Of course, among the details of his leadership they
discarded those who did not enter the fold and frustrated some initiatives by
dividing the vanguard, chasing fellows for protest, isolating them and even
vetoing them by blacklists to not to accede to jobs.
In Venezuela, the chavismo with the essential help of the
Cuban government, never looked for nationalistic measures that led to the
progress of the country, of stable form, or that could advance, something that
would radicalize the called revolutionary process, of that the government
specifically did nothing different from the distribution of income in a
capitalist way, to progress was necessary to plan in an integral and harmonic,
which would immediately collide with the interests of financial capital, the
so-called empire. All the contrary to the fact made by Cuba is its first years
of revolution, without which, would not have arrived until today.
The expropriation without indemnification of the companies,
large state, and of the banking, what they call private property on the means
of production, was executed there in the twentieth century, nothing like the
fantasies of socialism of the XXI century.
In our land, development was different, from the beginning
were huge profits of private banking, nationalized companies were paid in formidable
amounts, such as the Bank of Venezuela and the electricity of Caracas at the
stock market price, or carrying on with liabilities like Sidor, the mixed
companies of the oil belt of the Orinoco, were really reprivatizations; health
and education, are still good businesses and finally what it ended up plunging
the country into exchange control, favoring businessman and traders even better than before the
exchange control and who had just dismantled the incipient industry that
existed.
The most advanced were the missions, parallel to the monster
that is the scaffolding of the autonomous ministries and institutes, champions,
of passage, of outsourcing. At the end, the missions as mere assistance without
investment, was exhausted when the theta of the additional income was finished
by the high prices of crude.
Key points
Chávez came to save the Venezuelan capitalist society,
despite its lack of charm and approval by the traditional bourgeoisie, which
had failed with its putative parties AD and Copei. In that way, very early,
Chávez agreed, everyone after his particularly interest, with the advice of the
Cuban government. Here is a situation of ascent of struggles of the masses
before the economic deterioration, product of the exhaustion of the policy based
on the Punto Fijo pact, in Cuba follow the interests of survival of the Castro
bureaucracy. For both of them to have the masses in control, it serves to their
needs, no respect for the workers, no democracy for the working class, not even
on the trade union level, much less to rise up after an authentic workers'
party.
It is important to emphasize firstly was the caracazo in the
89, and soon it was Chavez, defeated in its attempt of the 92, that was
prisoner, that was abstentionist, and arrived by discard, there was no
alternative by the left. He came to the presidency succeeding to the 2nd
Caldera government, which five years earlier had won the elections by
abandoning his party Copei, founded by him in the 1940s and based on a broad
coalition called "the chiripero", where even the PCV supported, as
well as right-wing parties, because AD and Copei had exhausted their
domination.
Chavez began his government with the same finance minister
of the previous government, and prominent figure of the status, Maritza
Izaguirre, in its first two years of government, maintained the PDVSA
directive, changed presidents but respecting the traditional directory, did not
nationalize a kiosk, Salazar his Minister of Defense, in person was to
intimidate the struggle of oil workers on the east coast of Lake Maracaibo.
Only when he was forced to touch PDVSA, a product of
budgetary needs faced the traditional right and was deposed, then returned in
power, he revoked returning PDVSA to his former directory that in the In the
next few months, a tremendous lock-out in the oil industry, with billions of
dollars as losses for the nation, was made known by all, was saved from these
failures by the people and the oil proletariat respectively, it is necessary to
forget that it was 89 first that 92, and finally, continued being besieged by
the right coup and fascist dyes, Chavez allowed a referendum that came from a
fraudulent request, the so-called flat signatures and the people saved him
again. And it is necessary to remember that in the first attempt, the one of
the coup, he pardoned the executioners of the town. Making an analogy with the
Sandinista government, the table was served after more than 10 years of
government to their enemies, to return to power, the product of a situation due
to wear in power, their capitalist limitations . In the Venezuelan case, the
capitalist structure has remained and even worsened since the beginning of the
oil age, income after entry went and continues to go abroad.
At the electoral level, the government created an apparatus
together with the support of a group of satellites, called the patriotic polo
which often funds to channel the discontent of the bases with the government
and its PSUV organization without leaving the chavismo and disguising it as an
independent and autonomous organization of the government. PRT and the PPT,
groups such as the Tupamaros, the pebble, Alexis Vive, Bravo Pueblo and many
others until coming from trotkysmo-morenismo.
The imposition of elections in the old CTV, where Aristóbulo
Istúriz , imposed as candidate was
defeated by Carlos Ortega , a traditional bureaucrat of the oil trade union,
after which the Unete was created above, when it was overwhelmed by the
struggles and the workers' leaven la “Unete”, who never had a managerial
election, and creates something even more controlled, the CBST, where
bureaucrats have a dual role as a representative of the workers and in turn in
the management of the company, as patron.
The last one central works of mediator between the workers
and the offices of the Ministry of Labor, which they do to coerce workers to
belong to the CBST or not to be recognized and cared for in the labor offices.
What we have today
They turned the struggles of the workers of Sidor into
requests to a military, and the most serious is that it is still
insurmountable. The Corpoelec union directive is a colossal fault to the
incapacity, especially if they also participated as co-management in the main
directive, while it agreed to the employer, allowed, not fighting, the delay
for five years of collective agreement and just impose a convention which is
neither known nor fulfilled. The president of the oil and the health
federation, for example, are also employers' managers of the institution
hand-picked by the respective minister.
The registration of trade union organizations RNOS or the
national electoral council CNE, prevent simple elections if the continuity of
the union bureaucracy is endangered, to give authorization for a strike to last
for more than a year, Fundimeca case, in Ipostel breaks record without
discussion of collective contract for more than 21 years, after nationalized
all cement factories and distribution, for more than 9 years no collective
contract agreement is discussed, the general secretary of the ferrominera union
is imprisoned for more than a year, as a mockery of having run a strike. Union
executives of the assembly company Civetchi, are jointly imprisoned as a way to
liquidate with the trade union directive, in a strike in Mitsubishi killer
police two workers.
When uncomfortable, due to binational agreements, Pérez
Becerra is delivered to Colombian goverment, and arrested Julian Conrado,
both related to the FARC. Other
inconveniences, for denouncing corruption in PDVSA that can not be allowed, are
missing: the brothers Vergel and Alcedo Mora, or for conducting a struggle of
indigenous peoples are killed Sabino Romero and some of his relatives.
Different movements or councils of former guerrillas, have
meetings with great success ... referred to the good food and drink, in summary
for the logistics.
The awakening of the left
In this period, those who do not break and stay against the
current and remain there without fainting accompanying the struggles,
expressing words and independent slogans of both public and private employers,
we prevent all voices are silent. Our commitment is not to allow chavismo to
achieve its purpose, to annihilate the left, and when we touch the government
of the right gorilla, continue the struggle and offer the only real
alternative, the government of the workers. All the half-measures lead us to
failure. We can not change some adjusters for other adjusters.
We continue to participate and accompany the struggles
trying to clear the way, dismantling the manipulations and attacks towards the
workers' movement, which has not been defeated. Let us build the workers'
party, it is the hour, the discontent within the combative bases chavistas
already distinguish that the PSUV is not road but the defeat
For the construction of the Party of the Workers
For a government of the Workers
José Capitán 02 01 2017
This is an article in a series concerning the serious economic and political
crisis in Venezuela, taking advantage of our decision to translate them to send
to non-Spanish speaking comrades, however, we ask your cooperation, do not
hesitate to send us your political comments , his contributions or corrections
to the translations, we are not experts in the language of Shakespeare,
nevertheless we take the risk to publish them, undoubtedly we advance, like
militants by an international organization of the workers, that cannot be other
than the Refoundation of the Fourth International
