President Hugo Chávez has died after a long battle with cancer

[Red Commissar]

A pretty packed street in Caracas

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[Per Levy]

chavez is unimportent now, i do think he meant well and tryed but thats not importent, what is importent though is what will the workers and the poor of venezuela do now. they cant rely on the party of chavez, they can only rely on themselfs.
it remains to be seen if they'll be deceived by the people who will invoke chavez to get elected and will only enrich themselfs, and it remains to be seen if they will be demoralized by something like this.

[Ismail]

WSWS has a good article: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013.../pers-m08.html

Among other things it notes:

The painting of chavismo in socialist colors by today’s pseudo-lefts is a matter not merely of failing to learn these historical lessons, but rather of deep-rooted class interests. They are drawn to Chavez’s “21st Century socialism” precisely because of their hostility to the Marxist conception that a socialist transformation can be carried out only through the independent and conscious struggle of the working class to put an end to capitalism and take power into its own hands. These petty-bourgeois political elements are instead attracted to a policy designed to save capitalism from revolution, imposed from above by a charismatic comandante. These layers have moved far to the right since the hey-day of their adaptation to Castroism in the 1960s and 1970s. Indeed, before his death, some of them who had lauded Chavez turned against him because of his opposition to the US wars for regime change in Libya and Syria, which they themselves have embraced along with imperialism.

[DoCt SPARTAN]

R.I.P Chavez .....21st century socialism