[Marxism] Chávez wins 17 out of 23 Venezuelan St "ates, but loses 3 Most Populous"

[Aaron Aarons]

>Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:43:18 +1100
>From: "Stuart Munckton" <stuartmunckton at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Marxism]
>	Chávez wins 17 out of 23 Venezuelan St
>	"ates, but loses 3 Most Populous"
>
>"how are the contradictions to be
>resolved, how does the revolution in Venezuela advance, how does it win
>those battles, defeat the bureaucrats, strengthen the workers' movement, and
>either regenerate the PSUV as an organization capable of meeting the demands
>of this class struggle, or create another organization capable of meeting
>the standards the PSUV might not?"
>
>Unfortunately, some bastard nicked my recipe book... I guess the Venezuelans
>will have to figure out the tactical and strategic way forward from where
>they are... which is well in advance of where we on the left are in
>Australia.
>
>Stuart

Anybody who claims to be a Marxist, a Leninist, or even a Class-Struggle Anarchist should be able to say,  even from Neptune, if they have internet access there, that there can be no socialist revolution in Venezuela unless the working class and its allies break with the pro-capitalist reformist "socialists". Whether the former will be able to drive the latter out of the PSUV, or whether they will have to split from that formation, is a question whose answer requires more detailed info than I have.

I'm not concerned, by the way, that many plebians didn't vote for the more right-wing and opportunist PSUV candidates, but I am concerned if many of the poor, especially workers, voted for the right-wing opposition. I gather that not very many voted for left-opposition candidates, unfortunately. I guess it's similar to the mass-psychology in the U.S., where very few people voted for McKinney or Nader, even in the so-called "safe states". Or, perhaps more similarly, to when few Nicaraguan plebians who wanted to protest Sandanista failings in 1990 voted for the Marxist-Leninist Party, but many voted for the rightists.

 - Aaron