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Like never before, Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution is in immediate danger!

franz, Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 19:28

Franz J. T. Lee

By: Franz J. T. Lee

Immune to all ruling class ideology and religion, a very sober, general scientific view at the history of the life and death struggles of all species on our planet over the last six million years, of the forefathers of the chimpanzees versus those of homo sapiens, and, also a sane philosophic world outlook with reference to our labor fons et origo, of the generator of its alienating, self-destructive forces, its current global fascist quo vadis, really could throw revolutionary light on the immense tasks of the contemporary Bolivarian Revolution. In Venezuela.

Until now the Northern conquerors have written only their history and have imposed it violently on us.

Urgently a real historic analysis, the book of our true history, of "Humania of the South," has to be written, to serve not as biblical "apocalypse" but as emancipatory guide, as the creative book of exodus for revolutionary praxis and theory.

Here in a brief editorial we cannot accomplish this urgent mammoth task but we have written a lot already about the novel praxis and the innovative theory of our Venezuelan emancipatory paradigm. In the immediate past, very critically, we have warned about the human vices and dangers that threaten this tender and delicate red flower, scorched by its inherited capitalist practice and inherent imperialist ideology, by political traitors and CIA infiltrators everywhere.

However, without offending anybody ad hominem let us look frankly and critically at our current situation.

Once before, I said that not oil or the euro but the Truth is the Achilles' Heel of the United States Empire. This is also valid for us, for the Bolivarian Revolution. In fact, the Truth must become our torch, our clarion call, our sword, our quill!

However, some "comrades" even dare to hide the Truth from President Chavez himself!

However, who registers the Truth daily is the sovereign, the people, and they talk, they become enraged, they are the "bravo pueblo."

Only by knowing the Truth, our Bolivarian Revolution could ever liberate anybody, could emancipate us.

The latter vice and crime against humanity ... a special hobby of the United States ruling classes since the days of yore ... is the result of centuries of imperialist and oligarchic physical slavery and of a refined mental holocaust ... called education and socialization of the children of this world ... since centuries mercilessly launched against the delicate brains of all the future toiling slaves of the globe.

Before the Bolivarian Revolution came into power, millions of workers, peasants and unemployed living mainly in the "cerros" (shanty towns and ghettos) of 20th century Venezuela, both capitalist evils mentioned above were culturally very carefully nurtured by the subservient mechanisms and by the psychological machinations of United States directed puntofijismo, that is, of oligarchic corporeal bondage and of neo-liberal spiritual tutelage of millions of laboring Venezuelans.

Because the Bolivarian Revolution has not yet generated a necessary radical cultural revolution, that is able to grasp ideological opium, metaphysical strychnine and religious straw at their very radix, at their social, feudal and capitalist roots, all these customs, traditions, norms and rites, all the lies, theft and murder drives, inculcated over the centuries unconsciously and subconsciously into our very souls still govern the behavior patterns of many Bolivarian leaders themselves. This is a real stumbling block in the process of creating new Bolivarian revolutionaries.

* However, we should note that a species that cannot reproduce itself anymore is condemned to inexorable extinction.

As we know, within the fertile, political womb of Venezuelan, revolutionary, popular resistance, within the principled negation of the belligerent North American "plague," during the "Caracazo" of 1989, 5 000 brave Venezuelans fell, were massacred by the "Accion Democratica" Government of Carlos Andres Perez, who ordered the army to kill its own people. The result of this massacre backfired into the stinking faces of the oligarchic slave masters, a shock that they did not overcome till today. And yet, during the military coup of April 2002, within 47 hours, they killed about two hundred innocent people. If that coup had not been stopped by popular resistance, probably thousands of Bolivarians would be dead by now, devoured by the local Yankee vultures.

However, in honor of these innocent victims of neo-liberal savagery, especially of those of 1989 ... against those who want to come back again (and many are back already, sitting in important posts), financially aided by "Uncle Sam" ... urgently we have to replace them with 5 000 living, real and true revolutionaries.

Over the last decade the Venezuelan masses themselves, the sovereign, launched a political alternative: the Bolivarian Revolution. Without their popular action, their loyalty to President Chavez, their defense of the Revolution, there would never ever have been any Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Revolutions, social revolutions, are not directed from above, but mainly from below, to avoid that they do not fail, do not betray the masses that have conquered political power, and to avoid that the true revolutionaries will be murdered within a few days in wholesale fashion by the class enemy, like in the famous case of the massacre of a million communists in Djakarta, Indonesia.

Hence, Bolivarian comrades, let us get very clear about this: beware, our very lives are in danger!

Who has given us the authority to make the revolution, to be its vanguard, tomorrow may take it away from us, should we fail to defend its historic objectives.

Will we then also shoot the sovereign? Surely, not!!

On all political scores the popular, democratic Chavez government was victorious, eight times in a row. It even survived various assassination attempts of the president, a military coup, a severe oil sabotage and many CIA political plots. Beyond doubt, the popularity of President Hugo Chavez Frias is increasing by the day, it is already passing 70%, that is, he is popular as legitimate leader of the transhistoric ideas and ideals of the Bolivarian Revolution in Latin America and elsewhere, and of a "Christian Socialism for the 21st century."

* Whether we agree or disagree with the latter is irrelevant as long as the masses are fascinated by this idea.

All the above-mentioned is true, we can read everything about it in the independent news media, that still pursue the liberating truth as intrinsic virtue of authentic journalism. Against a galaxy of ideological, fascist "Spitfires," of the Goebbels caliber, of "Fox News," CNN, "Miami Herald," "London Times" or the "Toronto Star," in defense of the Bolivarian Revolution, directly here from Venezuela ... where we live and die in stark reality, where we receive death threats as our daily bread ... over the last seven years we ourselves are working with the poor, have held hundreds of lectures, gave dozens of interviews and have published thousands of articles to inform the world about a real, true, revolutionary experimentum mundi that is currently taking place in Venezuela, and which the Bush military junta wants to nip in the bud, by hook or by crook.

We followed the red signals of the revolution, we felt its popular pulse, now, in another decisive election year we are experiencing its awe and fear, on the battlefront, in Iran, Iraq and also here, we hear the coming death cries in agony. This calls for serious reflections, for urgent preparations of self-defense. Not so much is it a matter of increasing our passive Christian morals, on the contrary, we need to sound our "Diana" here and now, to increase our self-defending morale on the eternal imperialist battle field.

Talking about six million years of separating ourselves from our chimpanzee fellow creatures, human evolution, maturity and involution, there are certain historic truths to register, to analyze in this critical phase of revolutionary transcendence. Not only the US dollar is in mortal danger, the bolivar itself is seriously threatened by extinction too. Both are current reflections of the labor process, of history itself, of a mode of self-destruction.

Many of our projects are capitalist and destructive in nature, and they have nothing to do with human emancipation. To clarify this, in our own revolutionary interest, let us just ask ourselves some pertinent questions, that necessarily will give appropriate answers all by themselves.

* Quantitatively, how many true Bolivarians seriously launched the Revolution in Venezuela a decade ago? In the meantime, what happened to many of them?

Within the historic, objective and subjective conditions of Venezuela, at the turn of the 21st century, was it possible to have thousands of comrades, of revolutionaries and socialists?

* Could the few existing ones, overnight just multiply themselves qualitatively and like mushrooms sprout up all over the country? Is the making and the thinking of a revolutionary not the work of a life time?

* After seven years of revolutionary experience, after so many political victories, having such an amount of petro-dollars to realize all our revolutionary projects, why are we internally still in danger, in fact, presently, more than ever before?

* Who and what is really changing Venezuela, is revolutionizing Venezuela? Our petro-dollars?

* After seven years of "deepening the revolution," of making the "revolution in the revolution," why do millions of the poor still "only want to vote for Chavez"? Why are so many Venezuelans frustrated with the political rank and file? And, what will we do when Chavez is no more there? Like all of us he is not immortal!

* Why did the advanced cancer, "chavistas without Chavez," originally launched by Miquilena and Alfredo Peña, at all develop in the bosom of the Bolivarian Revolution?

* In spite of the solidarity of the Communist party of Venezuela, why are we so afraid of scientific and philosophic Marxism, of Socialism, as the real Negation of Capitalism?

As I said, we will not reply to these questions...

It is the sacred duty of all of us, of all Bolivarians ... who daily receive death threats like Mario Silva of "La Hojilla" ... to think seriously about them, to draw our own revolutionary conclusions, and immediately to start with the eradication of this counter-revolutionary epidemic.

Like never before, internally the Bolivarian Revolution is in immediate danger!

Forgetting the biblical fables about the holy origin and divine creation of Man, about the beautiful nano-technological, symmetric ... 90-60-90 ... feminine results of the cloning of a man's rib, by simply studying the latest archaelogical and paleontological findings cum grano salis, we will discover our human roots in the life and death struggles on this planet, from the Pleistocene to the Neolithic Revolution, from the Apes, to the Ape-Men, to the Men-Apes, to Man.

Taking the long view of the labor process, of history, it becomes evident that modern arrogant Man born as primitive homo sapiens sapiens around 250 000 BC, who is dreaming about eternal, everlasting, heavenly existence, is simply an ordinary laboring animal, that he is a very latecomer in planetary evolution, that because of his internal natural-social conflict, his corporeal-spiritual contradiction, of his self-destructive drive, ... unless a real, emancipatory "miracle" occurs very soon ... as a species his master-slave existence on planet earth relatively will be very short indeed.

Seen from eons, from the age of the earth of some six billion years, current Man at best will only survive for some 100 or 200 years more. Within the last 150 years, with his marvelous weapon, his brains, ruling class man, as tyrant and dictator, has set loose a chain of self-destructive forces. Presently they are destroying millions of years of natural living evolution, among them are the destruction of the ozone layer, the production of nuclear reactors, that really just serve belligerent desires, atomic bombs and radio-active waste that will eventually destroy a large part of life on the planet.

Within the context of the Bolivarian Revolution, we sign all kinds of bilateral capitalist contracts, form alliances with some metropolitan imperialist countries, seek solidarity all over, and aid other peoples in all sorts of ways.

* However, do we know what is on the order of the day in globalization?

* In what historic context the USA is threatening us with military invasion and extinction? Why are there United States military stations and posts all across the planet, to guard what?

* Is it a matter of just exchanging our petro-dollars for euro-dollars, to deposit our oil reserves in Swiss Banks?

* What is the difference between supporting Iran or Iraq as sovereign states against international European and North American imperialism and declaring solidarity with the working masses of Iran and Iraq against their own local theocratic, capitalist or imperialist lackeys, that favor United States interventions, capitalism and imperialism?

* In other words, does the vanguard of the Bolivarian Revolution differentiate between the current intra-imperialist global wars and the global class struggles in all the countries attacked or threatened by by world fascist wars?

We know that when capitalism is faced with a serious internal crisis, as the result of the sharpening of its own contradictions, then it forgets its democratic stewardess smile and it shows its true fascist grin. In such a case, in the battle for global hegemony, two wars are launched, which should not be mixed up: the intra-imperialist world wars, like the "First and Second World Wars," that is, intra-ruling class wars, and, the international class struggles of the workers, currently at the degree of globalization. In other words, two fierce global struggles occur, and they are interlinked.

To see what this is all about, a sound knowledge of history, of Marxist political economy, of praxis and theory, of revolution and emancipation, is necessary. To grasp this dangerous development, the ticking of the time-bomb of the coming real Third World War ... that probably will be the last one, because thereafter, for a century and more, any living creature on planet earth will have a desperate eternal struggle to stay alive at all ... we will have to pull ourselves by our own hair out of this global quagmire.

In spite of all the hoaxes, lies and information wars, what are the sign of the times, the writing on the wall, that we have to grasp and inter-relate? How can we sense what is coming? Well, this is what we are informing you about right here, right now.

Finally, as stated above, a very careful study of the current global war trails will reveal that we are confronted with the greatest crisis that mankind ever had experienced since its prehistoric evolution eight million years ago somewhere in Africa.

Perhaps mankind itself is its history, is its self-production, is a mode of self-destruction.

It is about time that we create ourselves, that we become our own self-creators.

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Subject: 
WWIII is ahead, not happening yet?
Author: 
mikec
Date: 
Wed, 2006-05-24 21:54

I believe that Franz Lee is overlooking some very important aspects of our present reality, for overall we do indeed seem to already be in the midst of WWIII, or IV, some people seeing it as IV, while I see it as III.

And as Franz Lee states, such wars involve more than only military involvement, also including economic ones, which in turn can be entirely related to natural resources, but while not only these or those may serve as motivation to work on governments warring, a-la military.

Carefully consider the very strong story exposed by Kay Griggs (easy look-up on the Web, when I tested it a couple of months ago anyway), and we very quickly learn that many if not all military wars, US military wars anyway, are very much based on the gangsterish attempts of using military powers to obtain natural resources, although for also other economic interests or goals.

We're already in that kind of war, and it spans not only Iraq, but also Afghanistan, Iran, perhaps most or all of the rest of the Middle East, that is, surely besides Israel, the long-enough covert, black ops war of the US on Colombia's indigenous and poor (something Rev. John Dear produced a very important article on some recent month ago), what the US has long been doing in the case of the majorly plighted Palestinians, and so on. The list is LONG, but in terms of immediately present, what Bush et al have launched is not war solely on Iraq or the Middle East, but really the whole world (just that of course GWB et al would never admit to have any such intentions).

Haiti, in my opinion, was some kind of awful diversion that GWB et al wanted to create, a failing diversion given that overall very few people have paid any significant attention at all to this other GWB et al war of aggression, etc., but one that at the same time I can't fully explain; only having a hunch that this was about trying to create a diversion, to try to draw people's attention away from Iraq, or Iraq and Afghanistan say.

When people wish to try to deceive others and for malicious purposes, diversions are methods that should be expected.

And that leads to my question of why it is that Franz Lee keeps posting these warnings about what he or she believes that US is planning for Ven., again sometime in the future, all while:

a) This is a Quebec IMC website, certainly not a US one, and it's not Canadian government that's claimed to be a threat to Ven. but the US;

b) Continuing on 'a', it's the US government that needs to be protested against, not the Canadian one; and,

c) We already have three wars of aggression to oppose, and Canada happens to be involved, variably but nevertheless involved in all three, which are Afghanistan, Iraq and Haiti; and Canadians should be focusing on these crimes that their or our government is committing against the peoples of these three countries, without meaning to exclude other countries where the Canadian government is chargeable for criminal acts.

And Canadians, like everyone else, also have economic, justice, and environmental issues that need to be seen to, addressed and corrected, so I don't know how it is that Canadians can find significant time to add Venezuela's hypothetical, realistically foreseen but nonetheless presently hypothetical aggression by the US.

I appreciate learning about Ven. and all other countries, particularly when grave injustices, war, environmental destruction, ..., are involved, but I don't see how people can campaign on [all] issues all at the same time, and Canadians' most pressing issues are Afghanistan, Haiti, economy and environment, as well as political in other areas.

In defeating potential plans the US government may have for attacking Ven. AGAIN, Franz Lee and others like him or her might find it more useful to post in US websites, such as www.selvesAndothers.org and www.counterpunch.org , f.e. After all, it's going to take far more opposition from Americans against their government, than what and far less Canadians will be able to contribute on this specific matter (of another US military aggression against another sovereign state) via their own government. Anyone who thinks that the Canadian government, under people like the new PM, monsieur Harper, will do anything to harm their economic relations with the US is seriously naive, for it's already been rendered entirely clear, obvious that monsieur Harper et all do NOT care about either law or democracy.

The only reason such people really appreciate democracy is because it permits them to be elected, so that they can then corrupt government how ever they wish, and therefore to actually make a legally democratic government into a dictatorship or [oligarchy]. (Like the US, Canada no longer has a true democracy, if it ever had one anyway, but also neither really is dictatorship. They're oligarchies and worse than dictatorship, for then we don't have one decision maker, nor decisions by, for and of the people, but a multiplicity of decision makers, rulers, conquestidors and dominators, manipulators, liars, etc. In a true or pure dictatorship, there is only one sole ruler, and we don't have that; nor do we have anything that can considerably be considered democracy, not considerably, only barely can we say that we have democracies, and only for the time that it takes to place a checkmark in a checkbox on an electoral ballot. After that, it's "bye bye democracy, until the next few minutes, at the next election, some several years in the future.)

We're already in the midst of WWIII, and I don't see why Canadians are being called upon to get especially concerned about Ven.'s potential future aggression by the US, when we already have more than by far most Canadians want to work with in terms of issues for activism.

I AM concerned about that, and being a dual citizen of both the US (born and raised) and of Ca (naturalised in 1981), well, I guess that a bit of my home, birth and childhood, patrie remains in my heart and conscience, so I'm concerned alright. But if we can't stop the wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and Haiti, and could not prevent any of these from being launched, well, then I don't see what people are going to be able to "magically" do about a hypothetical threat of war of aggression on Ven. If I was in Ven., like employed so as to not be homeless, etc., then I think that I'd prefer to devote my time to getting in top physical fitness, get permission to possess firearms, train with this until I'm of marksman calibre (was there or very very close to it decades ago), etc., and prepare in this manner in case Ven.'s attacked.

Hence, readers of this can perhaps now understand why it is that I question these articles in such a little used website as CMAQ. Or, at least based on what I see for content here, this gives me the impression that overall little use of this site is made.

How about the dominion.ca , which I'm not sure but believe must surely have a much broader readership, say, that is, for a Canadian website? But, again, selvesAndOthers.org and counterpunch.org of the US strike me as better for these types of articles, although dominion.ca has national reach, as opposed to CMAQ which is mostly used by Quebecers.

Knowing of the kind of articles linked via and posted at selvesAndOthers and counterpunch, it seems odd that Franz Lee has not used such resources.

Mike Corbeil
Hatley Township, Qc


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