tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post116864805775740063..comments2023-11-05T03:12:10.925-06:00Comments on Renegade Eye: “What is the problem? I am also a Trotskyist!” - Chavez is sworn in as president of VenezuelaFrank Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1170041042235195362007-01-28T21:24:00.000-06:002007-01-28T21:24:00.000-06:00This is a very interesting turn of events. I have ...This is a very interesting turn of events. I have been a sceptical supporter of Chavez (perhaps less sceptical about Chavez and more sceptical about the faunings of many on the far left) and I regarded him as a bonapartist adventurer with a huge pocket of cash (thanks to the gas guzzling USA and Chinas instatiable productive power). I dont have a problem with bonapartist adventurers as long as they do good things... and Chavez seems to be taking politics into some really interesting pathways! In fact, the whole of latin american seems to have become a witches cauldron of new and interetsing political combinations. I hope it all gets enough momentum before Washington has the time to turn its attention southward.Jeff Richardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07714108051191048272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1169512222420591002007-01-22T18:30:00.000-06:002007-01-22T18:30:00.000-06:00I have a question. Does anyone know how things ar...I have a question. Does anyone know how things are going on the ground? Is there a real movement of workplace and street organizing, and if so, are there real mechanisms for them to have a say in what happens locally and nationally. I am asking, because when Chavez was in Nicaragua, Ortega spoke out to a large crowd of supporters promising that political power was going to go to the people. It sounds like participatory democracy, or socialism from below, and sounds good. But then he said that Nicaragua would join ALBA, but to make it "participatory" he called out to the crowd of supporters and asked them to raise their hands if they were in favour. Of course the crowd cheered and shouted their support, but I was left with the unpleasant feeling that something so important was being made into populist joke, or a talk-show type of spectacle. I hope that the new government in Nicaragua does build new mechanisms for active political participation from the bottom up, and I would be curious to know if Venezuela was doing so.Sontínhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05691098325234262904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1168979397984643322007-01-16T14:29:00.000-06:002007-01-16T14:29:00.000-06:00It won't be long before private property rights ar...It won't be long before private property rights are eliminated, the press will seized and wealth and power will fall into the hands of a very few elite.<BR/><BR/>They will be able to sustain it for a while because of the seizure of the oil industry, but without competent management and a profit incentive, it will go the way of the Soviet Union and Cuba.<BR/><BR/>At least Hu Jintao has enough sense to allow pockets of capitalism to fund their sinister aims.Craig Bardohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02247430738711822531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1168877928784682762007-01-15T10:18:00.000-06:002007-01-15T10:18:00.000-06:00I support Chavez and wish the people of Venezuela ...I support Chavez and wish the people of Venezuela success. Even some Maoists are getting excited by Chavez's words.<BR/><BR/>I remain optimistic, and skeptical. Like Nepal, these are new roads being paved, and its a slippery slope to social-democracy.celticfirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14692685782905110663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1168754736682231232007-01-14T00:05:00.000-06:002007-01-14T00:05:00.000-06:00I support Chavez and his revolution. I just hope t...I support Chavez and his revolution. I just hope they can, as Troutsky was saying, make sure a bureacratic elite doesn't formGraemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04230080850680753260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1168695817883621712007-01-13T07:43:00.000-06:002007-01-13T07:43:00.000-06:00I think a national workers conference is exactly w...I think a national workers conference is exactly what is needed but it must be structured in such a way that maximum inclusion can be maintained.All sectors, including those in the informal economy, must have a voice or a bureacratic elite will begin to emerge.I would love to be there and observe this process taking shape.Also, "permanent revolution" means a committment to power sharing rather than consolidation and a military that will defend the revolution and not just Hugo.troutskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16020298501632120830noreply@blogger.com