[Marxism] Ineresting Al-Jareeza video on Venezuela

[Louis Proyect]

Shacht at aol.com wrote:
> Unconditional support to Venezuela against any attempts of American  
> Imperialism to interfere with its own affairs does not mean that we should be  
> oblivious to what are clearly undemocratic aspects of Chavez's methods of rule.  As 
> Marxists our duty is to know as well as learn from history and to beware of  
> the tendencies that press for authoritarianism as well as socialism from  below 
> in any popular movement that has not been based ono the seizure of power  from 
> below by the working class.

Did part of your post get lost? I was expecting you to detail those 
"clearly undemocratic aspects". Please don't keep us guessing. Is it the 
proposal to end term limits? The US introduced term limits in 1947 but 
they don't exist in most of Western Europe. I think that the hue and cry 
in the bourgeois media is over the excess of democracy in Venezuela 
today. They want the country to return to the good old days when the 
government paid close attention to Washington's instructions. As a first 
step in returning to the status quo ante, they have to deny the 
Venezuelan people the right to vote for Hugo Chavez in future elections. 
So, from an Orwellian standpoint, denying them that right is more 
democratic.