Re: (fwd from José Perez) Some thoughts on the new stage of the Venezuelan process

["Gorojovsky" <Gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

En relación a (fwd from José Perez) Some thoughts, 
el 14 Jan 02, a las 7:28, Les Schaffer dijo:

> But in doing comparisons, it is important to remember: each process is
> unique. ONE very important thing that hasn't happened in Venezuela is a
> shattering of the old bureaucratic-military-repressive-administrative
> apparatus of the state. Chile is a clear warning that even the longest and
> most deep-rooted of bourgeois "democratic" traditions don't mean much to
> bourgeois generals. But I at least have a suspicion that Chávez knows the
> Venezuelan military officer caste much, much  better than Allende did his,
> and Chávez isn't going to be as easily caught napping. And of course there
> have been countless structural and personnel changes all over the Venezuelan
> state apparatus in the past couple of years.

I would also add that while Allende and the revolutionary leadership in Chile 
were not clearly aware of either the Latin-American character of their 
struggle, or its national-democratic character, Chavez is fully aware of both. 
There were many reasons for the tragedy in Chile, but IMHO the main ones were 
the insularity of the movement (no attempt was made at seeking a redress of 
mutual grievances and a Federation of the Pacific with Bolivia and/or Peru, for 
example) and the fact that most of its leaders (Allende to a great extent 
excluded) imagined themselves as if they lived in a "bourgeois" country in the 
sense that Switzerland is a bourgeois country. Thus, though most of the 
measures that Allende took were correct and on the national-democratic agenda, 
the ideological dead weight of a structure of mind based on the "reform" versus 
"revolution", "bourgeois" versus "proletarian", oppositions, blindfolded many 
at the highest level when imperialism began to act through the Army.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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Compañeros del exercito de los Andes. 

...La guerra se la tenemos de hacer del modo que podamos: 
sino tenemos dinero, carne y un pedazo de tabaco no nos 
tiene de faltar: cuando se acaben los vestuarios, nos 
vestiremos con la bayetilla que nos trabajen nuestras mugeres, 
y sino andaremos en pelota como nuestros paisanos los indios: 
seamos libres, y lo demás no importa nada...

Jose de San Martín, 27 de julio de 1819.

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