"To me, socialism is communism: Fidel" the new right wing media menace

[el_chavista]

See the you tube video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHZoR1KCG3A (34 seconds)
journalist: Does socialism belong to "pre-history" too?

Fidel: Only, What is socialism is a question we have to ask ourself now?

journalist: What is Socialism for you now at the 21st century?

Fidel: To me it is communism, what Marx himself defined as communism

The right wing mass media is using the old specter of communism to freak out the masses. That's why it is preferable to use new terms:

communism = "our non-already-elaborated socialism of the 21th century"

dictatorship of the proletariat = "direct democracy"

workers' seizing and control of factories = "democracy at the work places".

[Obs]

inb4 hoxha

[RedSonRising]

Leave it to the right wing media to take a loaded question answered by a demonized long-time revolutionary with a theory-based response and turn it into a scare tactic built upon years and years of capitalist propaganda.

[GPDP]

How did that meme go again?

"Mr. Castro, does socialism belong to pre-history, or are you a totalitarian tyrant now and forever?"

[FSL]

The right wing mass media is using the old specter of communism to freak out the masses. That's why it is preferable to use new terms:

communism = "our non-already-elaborated socialism of the 21th century"

dictatorship of the proletariat = "direct democracy"

workers' seizing and control of factories = "democracy at the work places".

We shouldn't be competing on who does the best job in fooling the masses. "Socialism of the 21st century" or "direct democracy" are no spectres, because Sweden can claim it has that kind of socialism and Switzerland can claim it has that kind of democracy.

Communists want to seize factories and bring forth the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. That's how things are supposed to be, so nice answers from Fidel.
There is a reason Globovision vilifies that prospect and that's the reason we should pursue it.


Where is that interview originally from? It looks recent, was it on Venezuelan TV?

[el_chavista]

We shouldn't be competing on who does the best job in fooling the masses. "Socialism of the 21st century" or "direct democracy" are no spectres, because Sweden can claim it has that kind of socialism and Switzerland can claim it has that kind of democracy.

Communists want to seize factories and bring forth the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. That's how things are supposed to be, so nice answers from Fidel.
There is a reason Globovision vilifies that prospect and that's the reason we should pursue it.


Where is that interview originally from? It looks recent, was it on Venezuelan TV?
That interview was in La Habana a few days ago. Some Venezuelan journalists travelled on purpose to transmit it through TeleSur for all South America.


Communists want to seize factories... That's how things are supposed to be
Hey, that's something that really has happened in Venezuela after the oil/owners strike from 2003!
A friend of mine who lived in the USSR and then in capitalist Russia told me:

In 1990, there were several mines strikes in some regions of Russia. The demands were about everyday conditions: Improving working conditions, increased security measures, improved food supplies and other items of first necessity, but also, in some cases, workers' control.

The strike leaders went to Moscow to negotiate with the government. At the same time, there appeared representatives of the "official" North American greatest trade union (AFL-CIO) "to establish contacts with the Soviet labor movement."

And sure they established contact! They arrived full of dollars, began taking the labor leaders to the more expensive restaurants, and spent whole days with them. They stopped coming back to their cities, spent all their time in Moscow, and their needs changed: now demanding the market economy and multiparty democracy ...
So, our modest Bolivarian movement is doing it better than the Russian communists in 1990.