el_chavista
1st March 2010, 23:21
Chávez has admited that he belonged to the Central Committee of the PRV (Party of the Venezuelan Revolution, formerly the FLN-FALN -Front of National Liberation, the armed branch of the Communist Party of Venezuela) in 1978.
In the 1970's decade, the PRV -and its legal organization Ruptura [the break]- took on shaping a new political strategy for taking power in Venezuela, based on the partial break with the tenets of Sovietic Marxism-Leninism, taking some basic ideas of the independence hero Simón Bolívar, the independence intellectual Simón Rodríguez and peasant war's hero Ezequiel Zamora,
from Simón Bolívar, the integration of a great Latin American fatherland, a continental anti-imperialist Third Army, and a deadly struggle against administrative corruption;
from Simón Rodríguez, the releasing of the creative powers of the people, summed up in his phrase "we invent or we err";
and from Sovereign People's General Ezequiel Zamora, the enacting of direct democracy and a battle front against the oligarchic groups of society.
All integrated in what is called a civil-military-religious unity.
When we were expelled from the Communist Party it was because we were claiming the theoretical elements of Simón Bolívar, Simón Rodríguez, Zamora and other thinkers of ours, which conflicted with the tenets of Sovietic orthodoxy of thought. For example, Simon Rodriguez had approaches that meant a ruptura [break], so to use a "classic" word, with the philosophy that came to us from Europe. Saying, for example, that 'it is necessary to invent or we miss' collided with a thought which held that there was no need to invent anything. We drafted a document published by Pedro Duno [late Marxist ideologist] called 'Bolivarian-Marxism-Leninisn' where for the first time it was raised the issue of "nationalization" of the [Venezuelan] revolutionary thought.
In the 1970's decade, the PRV -and its legal organization Ruptura [the break]- took on shaping a new political strategy for taking power in Venezuela, based on the partial break with the tenets of Sovietic Marxism-Leninism, taking some basic ideas of the independence hero Simón Bolívar, the independence intellectual Simón Rodríguez and peasant war's hero Ezequiel Zamora,
from Simón Bolívar, the integration of a great Latin American fatherland, a continental anti-imperialist Third Army, and a deadly struggle against administrative corruption;
from Simón Rodríguez, the releasing of the creative powers of the people, summed up in his phrase "we invent or we err";
and from Sovereign People's General Ezequiel Zamora, the enacting of direct democracy and a battle front against the oligarchic groups of society.
All integrated in what is called a civil-military-religious unity.
When we were expelled from the Communist Party it was because we were claiming the theoretical elements of Simón Bolívar, Simón Rodríguez, Zamora and other thinkers of ours, which conflicted with the tenets of Sovietic orthodoxy of thought. For example, Simon Rodriguez had approaches that meant a ruptura [break], so to use a "classic" word, with the philosophy that came to us from Europe. Saying, for example, that 'it is necessary to invent or we miss' collided with a thought which held that there was no need to invent anything. We drafted a document published by Pedro Duno [late Marxist ideologist] called 'Bolivarian-Marxism-Leninisn' where for the first time it was raised the issue of "nationalization" of the [Venezuelan] revolutionary thought.