Does Venezuela need "Managed" or "Sovereign" Democracy?

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    I'm borrowing here, ironically, from the Putin experience in Russia, but does Venezuela need "managed" or "sovereign" democracy to further the Bolivarian political and social revolution?

    Imagine this scenario, not unlike Lenin's "two Bolshevik parties" idea ("However, eventually we will have a two-party system such as the British have--a left party and a right party--but two Bolshevik parties, of course"), Stalin's botched but rather sincere attempt at single-party but multi-candidate elections in 1946 (emerging out of the war with high popularity), or the official Popular Front governments in Eastern Europe back in the day: a more or less four-party parliamentary system committed to "Bolivarian socialism" and "socialism of the 21st century."

    The big populist party on the "right" appeals economically to the fringes of left-wing social democracy, but has the sense to nationalize the banking system and such. Think Die Linke. Socially, however, this big party is the relatively conservative "Party of Order," and would continue things like the ban on violent video games.

    The big populist party on the "left" appeals more economically to the Yugoslav model, and might have Minsky and Meidner to tackle structural unemployment and working-class savings (including income-to-asset redistributions), respectively. Socially, this big party is the relatively liberal "Party of Liberty."

    The third party or limited group of third parties stands in between the two big parties. One such party is in fact a "Labour" party - obviously one not trapped in dead ends like British Labourism (given my mention of Linke-ism as the most right-wing boundary). This "Labour" party's purpose is to serve mainly as a significant coalition partner to either of the two big populist "parties of power," like Ferdinand Lassalle's long-term orientation when faced with the choice of Bismarck and the bourgeois liberals, and like the more mainstream Green parties in Europe today (coalition partners to either center-left or center-right senior partners). The "third party" position need not necessarily be a monopoly held by some "Labour" party. Green parties, IP reform parties, and other special-interest parties could occupy this position, as well.

    The fourth party or limited group of fourth parties are communist parties of various backgrounds. Most importantly, they can be traditional Communist parties in allowing non-worker intellectuals, self-employed consultants/artisans/generic service providers, sharecroppers, etc. in, or they can also be communist worker parties in not doing so, orienting themselves towards the proletariat or the broader strata of prole classes. These parties refuse coalitions with any of the three parties unless the minimum demands of the DOTP are met (full replacement of judges by juries, average skilled workers' wage, separate sovereign socioeconomic governments, instant recallability, militias, media democracy, etc.).

    "Social-democratic" and further-right parties would at least be taboo or given more serious haranguing (or bans) by the Miraflores, much like what the Kremlin does to liberal opposition groups.

    Thoughts?