US President Abraham Lincoln did not just yell, masticate or ruminate the infamous ideological phrase about "democracy", about a "government of, by and for the people"; already facing an imperialist future, he mainly spoke about "the last, best hope of Earth". Whatever he really meant, it was surely not the bloody edification of the current decadent United States of America, or of its fascist globalization, or even of the present bloodthirsty Bush military junta and its Draconian administration.

Directly related to our daily revolutionary struggles for immediate, physical survival, to strengthen our shaky, neocolonial, capitalist economies and to search for popular cooperation and socialist solidarity, that is, to quell our immense hunger, misery, poverty and alienation, are the transhistoric, global forces, their material dynamics, social dialectics and human creativity.

In the final analysis, about what, about whom, are we talking? Who really changes, who really defends Venezuela?

Gods? Ideas? Heroes? A Messiah? A Herrenvolk?

A "new socialism" presupposes new human beings, existences and transcendences, an innovative science and an emancipatory philosophy. In simple terms, this means that we have to become conscious of the dangerous limitations of our current universal world outlook, of its restricted, geocentric, formal logics and heliocentric, intrasystemic dialectics, its unilateral, spatial-temporal movement, motion, development and change and of its obsolete conceptions of history, especially of the labor forces of production, that, inter alia, claim that great gods, great men, great ideas, great populist messiahs, and great races make and break history.

Precisely the above misconceptions hinder the creation of world socialism, negate protagonist, participative citizen power, deny the existence of antagonistic, transcendental, transhistoric class struggles, ideologize revolutionary theory, neutralize popular praxis, pacify rebellious negation of capitalism, christianize anti-imperialist, militant world emancipation, with reformism ostracize and sterilize revolutionary Marxism.

As a result of such counter-revolutionary forces, class struggles in Latin America have become personalized, are being placed in the hands of some maximum leader, of the lord, of a messiah, of his overlords.

Bertolt Brecht, the Marxist dramatist, in an excellent working class poem, has explained to us long ago that a great lord cannot exist without staunch religious believers, that no Pharaoh alone could construct any pyramid, that Bolivar and Napoleon, all alone on horse-back, without their armies or soldiers, could never have won a single battle, that an eternal lover all by himself could not build any Taj Mahal.

And yet, the toiling masses were always used and abused by all kinds of ruling classes, by upper and middle classes, negative, positive and neutral ones, by national and international exploiting and dominating slave-masters.

Hence, in the first place, who all really defeat military coups, oil sabotage, foreign intervention and "chavism without chavez" here in Venezuela, are simply the millions of employed, unemployed and sub-employed, starving, toiling workers, peasants and other "under-dogs". Between April and December, 2002, and later, scientifically all this was verified amply.

Concerning "socialism" from above, and from below, in his writing #Two Souls of Socialism", Hal Draper wrote:

"Since the beginning of society, there has been no end of theories 'proving' that tyranny is inevitable and that freedom-in-democracy is impossible; there is no more convenient ideology for a ruling class and its intellectual flunkies. These are self-fulfilling predictions, since they remain true only as long as they are taken to be true. In the last analysis, the only way of proving them false is in the struggle itself. That struggle from below has never been stopped by the theories from above, and it has changed the world time and again. To choose any of the forms of Socialism-from-Above is to look back to the old world, to the 'old crap.' To choose the road of Socialism-from-Below is to affirm the beginning of a new world."

http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/marx.html

The Venezuelan masses form the real, true revolutionary base of popular class resistance to global fascism. Without their revolutionary action, acts and praxis, the whole Venezuelan Bolivarian edifice would crash. All alone, no matter how brave they really and truly are, President Hugo Chavez Frias and his loyal ministers and generals, cannot stop any United States organized and financed military coup or violent intervention. It is they, the people, the laboring classes that resisted in Vietnam, that still resist in Palestine, Colombia and Iraq, that only can save the human species from extinction.

No Great God, No Great Idea, No Great Man, No Great Race, will ever save us from extinction.

Scientific Socialists, true Marxists have taught us that the task of liberation of the billions of workers and peasants of the world is the "work" of the workers themselves. In the famous workers' song, The International, and in the very Communist Manifesto, we could verify the above: the workers of the world have no patria, no fatherland, no "matria", no motherland, they have to create their earthly "home, sweet home" all by themselves.

If it should be necessary, without Northern metropolitan tutelage, that the "retarded" Venezuelan or Latin American oppressed masses should rule themselves, in this case, Hal Draper explained to us the necessary procedure, the very Marxist poñitical essence of workers' government:

"It is argued that the mass of people in these countries are too backward to control the society and its government; and this is no doubt true, not only there. But what follows? How does a people or a class become fit to rule in their own name?
Only by fighting to do so. Only by waging their struggle against oppression -- oppression by those who tell them they are unfit to govern. Only by fighting for democratic power do they educate themselves and raise themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power. There has never been any other way for any class." (ibid.)

Much to Washington's disgust, precisely this the Chavez government is doing in Caracas. Hence, in our Bolivarian projects and missions, if we do not depart from the real, physical and social base of world revolution, from emancipatory reality, if we neglect the creating acts and creative thoughts of billions of manual and intellectual labor slaves of the whole world, and, instead, if we just resort to modernized, ruling class, sociological jargon, to Orwellian, computer "new socialism of the 21st century" ... about which Marx had warned in "Capital", with reference to the progressive "organic composition of capital" ... in reality, to a new, real, existent "democracy", then many of us will be overrun by ourselves, by global class struggles, will be swept away into historic oblivion.

President Chavez is very clear about creating our socialism, that is, our human socialism, our Human Emancipation.

Hence, Bolivarians, as stated in a previous "¡Alo Presidente!", before we will be picking up our Russian rifles, and will then silently disappear together with President Chavez into the hide-outs, caves, mountains, forests and jungles of Latin America, in defense of our sovereignty, to avoid the threatening pot-holes of reformism and revisionism, at first, beforehand, let us study, criticize and surpass Marxism, theoretically let us discover the social classes, the class struggles, the proletarian, world emancipatory potential of the Bolivarian Revolution!

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels explained that workers' social revolution means "attain to power at once":

" ... Whereas we say to the workers: 'You will have to go through fifteen or twenty or fifty years of civil wars and international wars, not only in order to change extant conditions, but also in order to change yourselves and to render yourselves fit for political dominion,' you (Marxists), on the other hand, say to the workers: 'We must attain to power at once, or else we may just as well go to sleep.'"
http://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1928/marx/ch04.htm

Yes, wide awake, in this revolutionary spirit, beginning in the Sierra Maestra, in the vast, dangerous jungles of Latin America, Africa and Asia, together with his bullets, from the point go, Che Guevara had Marx in his revolutionary luggage, that is why he is the eternal, youthful, emancipatory hero of our galaxy.

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