What is really at stake on August 15, 2004, in Venezuela and the World? What is the Quintessence of the Bolivarian Revolution? Definitely, it is determined by the transhistoric reality of its counterpart, that is, by global fascism, currently spearheaded by the USA.

In a normative sense, the concept "Revolution" is determined by the social class or classes, that make this revolution. It is composed of an Affirmation and a Negation. Revolution and Counter-Revolution. Whether the Revolution is "positive" or "negative" for the future of mankind depends on the participating antagonist, global, social classes. For example, with reference to the French Revolution, both the objective idealist, Hegel, and the dialectical materialist, Marx, were fascinated with the momentous changes; however, those that lost their heads under the guillotine were of a completely different opinion. Also, ever since this capitalist, bourgeois, democratic revolution, "revolution" is not the exclusive prerogative of the working classes against their slave-masters.

In Venezuela, for global fascism, for the Bush administration, the corrupt oligarchs, the Bolivarian Revolution is "undemocratic tyranny" and "terrorist dictatorship", hence, it has to be nipped in the bud, and be replaced by a democratic dictatorship for 10 to 20 years. For them, it is part of the "axis of evil". According to President Chávez, the Bolivarian Revolution is neither Marxist nor Anti-Marxist, well, it is Bolivarian, as determined by the current Bolivarian compatriots.

From a transhistoric, scientific and philosophic perspective, "Revolution" is a certain accelerated dialectical stage of the accumulation of capital, of production, of the Labour Process. Already in the "Communist Manifesto" and in "Capital", Marx and Engels explained contemporary Revolution in its totality. The one and only "Revolution", the French-British-American capitalist industrial revolution, that began as dominant world process in the late 18th century, continually globalizing itself as imperialism, has its internal class contradiction: Capital and Labour, Capitalists versus Labourers. Both form the two dialectical sides of the very same Revolution, its Affirmation and its Negation , respectively. Thus, it is imperative to know the system in which we are making a revolution, where we want changes from within, within the very world capitalist Revolution. The Revolution was born in Capitalism, and it ends with the end of capitalism; beyond capitalism, no revolution is necessary.

This is the transhistoric context of the Bolivarian Revolution. Firstly, in its origins, starting with Bolivar, Miranda, Rodriguez and Samora, it was affirmative, it had in mind realizing the bourgeois democratic capitalist revolution, the same that the USA had in mind, only with other social objectives, with other class interests.

Due to the global constellation in the 19th century, and the correlation of revolutionary forces, the USA were successful, became the global Affirmation, and Central and South America, together with other parts of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Oceania, etc., became the Revolutionary Negation within the world system. All other possibilities outside the global capitalist framework were blocked, no real emancipatory exodus was allowed. In fact, as time went by, nobody could imagine anything else anymore, other than working, slaving, buying, selling, consuming and possessing.

Across the 20th Century, social revolutions, internal capitalist negations, occurred across the globe, Russia, China, Yugoslavia, Algeria, Vietnam, Chile, Cuba, etc. Except the latter, all ended in complete revolutionary disaster. The question is why?

Now, at the eve of the 21st Century, we are facing a revolutionary phenomenon: the continued revolutionary existence of Cuba, for over 40 years, and the emergence of the Bolivarian Revolution, and the revolutionary unity of both. What is it negating? And, what produces it as Negation?

Again, to determine what is going on here in Venezuela, and in Latin America, we have to apply the science of motion, of contradictions, the logic of Dialectics, as expounded by Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mao, Fanon, Che and other erudite scholars and revolutionaries.

NEGATION, CONTRADICTION, NO

Firstly, here in Venezuela, the popular "NO", expresses the intrasystemic dialectical Negation of the global even, uneven and combined historical development, that threatens the very existence of the human species, it negates so-called "neo-liberalism", globalization, US-European world fascist hegemony. Is this "NO" intra- or extra-systemic? Is it revolutionary, or is it revolutionary and emancipatory?

Dialectically, the capitalist, corporate world system, across the labour process, permanently produces its own negation, the "Marxists", "terrorists", "Arabs", "Castro-Communists", etc., and now the "Chavistas". It develops across its Negation, and here is the secret of the revolutionary quintessence of the global Bolivarian Revolution. Here is the key for emancipatory práxis-theory.

Hence, just studying the Bolivarian Revolution as an isolated historical event, is already missing the point. It is part and parcel of the global negating revolutionary process within global capitalism and imperialism. Its concrete práxis and social theory have to be identified within this historical context. Currently, with Cuba, it forms the tip of the ice-berg of global Negation, of saying "NO" to world fascism.

In this sense, the Bolivarian Revolution is part and parcel of World Revolution, is a transhistoric product of Capitalism itself. This is why some of the immediate social objectives of the Bolivarian projects, in tune with equal and unequal, combined developments, correspond precisely with the main historic tasks of the French and Industrial Revolutions, industrialization, land reform, national sovereignty, redistribution of national income, etc. But, it also engenders new elements, for example, a politicized people that the world never has seen, never mind the level of social and historic consciousness. The vanguard of this people in action has already produced political "miracles", overcoming military coups, oil sabotage, severe mass manipulation, and the like, that no government normally ever would have survived.

REVOLUTION AND EMANCIPATION

Now, why the current severe imperialist, corporate attacks against Venezuela, the OPEC countries, the ALBA, the alternative to the US-sponsored ALCA, Mercosur, Latin American Unity and Solidarity? In fact, against "Third World" Solidarity?

The capitalist system itself is in dialectical agony, this is what globalization, monopolization, concentration and fascism mean. This is the last mode of production. This is expressed in its "energy crisis", in fact, an artificially created crisis, because there is sufficient energy available, right here on Earth, to distribute "free energy" to all, even to the ants and rats.

That is, the electro-magnetic energy, of "occult physics", from the vacuum, discovered by scientists like Tesla, Reich, Titarenko, etc. However, applying this free energy globally in an exploitative mode of production would detonate the very dominating essence of capitalism, opening avenues for creativity, creation and emancipation. Hence, any alternative, any ALBA, has to be extrasystemic, must be an exodus out of current alienating production.

In spite of this transcending possibility, scientists like Thomas Bearden have warned already that we are passing the Rubicon, and that world capitalism and imperialism, as we know them until now, employing mainly obsolete physical manual labour, will vanish into oblivion. The capitalist energy crisis is its life crisis, its senility.

Now, what has Venezuela, the Bolivarian revolution, to do with this? In the short term, before the total world economic collapse, the brutal conquest of the remaining reserves of oil, water, oxygen and biodiversity is a top priority for the well-being of the Super Power, for the USA; also this is relevant with reference to its possible competitors for world hegemony, Europe, China, India, etc. Furthermore, the kleptocratic Latin American oligarchs will never accept any redistribution of national income, in favour of the impoverished masses, not even Kennedy's "Alliance for Progress" could convince them.

Obviously, this world economic crisis endangers Venezuela, Latin America. Furthermore, on the world market, a transformation of labour is taking place, towards the so-called "intellectual labour" and "intellectual property", towards "property of humanity". In fact, the major products on the current world market come from this sector, progressively, billions of obsolete manual labourers are being thrown out of the labour process, are being exterminated by Bush's "new wars". Also the planet is already so contaminated by capitalist over-production, waste and destruction, that soon life itself may disappear from the planet.

All these affect the Bolivarian Revolution, are globalizing its revolutionary efforts, make it an emancipatory paradigm for the world. Its práxis becomes the totality of global workers' resistance, its theory is permanent revolution, is directed towards emancipation, now or never.
This can be verified in its educational, political, economical and social projects, can be seen in the ferocious attacks of the global mass media, in the conspiracies, in the danger of violent US intervention. However, global fascism will have to annihilate the whole ice-berg, in order to stop its "NO" on August 15, 2004, and all that what will follow thereafter: the still possible Emancipation of Humanity. However, space and time are running out, hence, the Bolivarian Revolution has to globalize itself, faster than the speed of light.