[Marxism] 5.6 million votes for PSUV, run down pf state percentages

[Ruthless Critic of All that Exists]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Dan Russell <proletariandan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm ashamed to say I haven't been following VE as closely as I should - were
> there any races where the PSUV & Right-Opposition were not the top 2
> candidates?

*Municipio Libertador - Caracas *

Jorge Rodríguez 53.05%
Iván Stalin González 41.92%


"Mr. Chávez's description also hardly fits Mr. González. The
27-year-old, sixth-year law student grew up in a poor household that
dreamed of a Communist Venezuela. His father, a print-machine
operator, was a high-ranking member of the Bandera Roja, or Red Flag,
a hard-line Marxist-Leninist party that maintained a guerrilla force
until as recently as the mid-1990s. Its members revered Josef Stalin
as well as Albania's xenophobic Enver Hoxha. As a boy, Mr. González
remembers packing off to marches with his sisters, Dolores Engels and
Ilyich, named in honor of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

"As a young man, Mr. González burnished his leftist credentials,
joining Marxist youth groups and following his father into the Bandera
Roja. He traveled to Socialist youth conferences in Latin America.


"Hugo Chávez described Bandera Roja thusly:

'Groups like them appear to have given themselves the holy mission of
proclaiming themselves to be the only revolutionaries on the planet,
or at any rate in this territory. And those who don't follow their
dogmas are not considered genuine revolutionaries.'" [...]

Full: <http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/ultraleft-counter-revolutionaries-in-venezuela/>