Caracas Chronicles

para que lo mediten el fin de semana...

This is all leading up to changing the constitution and declaring the PSUV the only legitimate party to represent the people. Don't hold your breath waiting for those elections. Chavez isn't worried about losing them, because they won't ever happen.

Corrijanme si me equivoco, pero alguien que le avise que los marxistas son ateos... y el se proclama cristiano y marxista

How Chavez holds to power is beyond my logic. They country is truly falling apart. I dont know how or when, but without water, electricity and empty shelves at the super, Chavez doesn't survive the year. Not even Jesus Christ could survive running such a bad government.

On other topic, are they really listening to what they clap for? or they automatically clap every time Chavez stops speaking for more than 3 seconds?

By Juan

o no?

http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/noticia/139693/yo-asumo-el-cristian...

He calls himself a marxist but he admits that he hasn't read The Capital yet.

Paraphrasing Jeff Albertson (Comic Book Guy):

WORST. MARXIST. EVER!

And just when things can not be more bizarre, earlier today:

http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/noticia/139626/gobierno-pide-ayuda-...

Communicational Hegemony FAIL!

What struck me about the video wasn't that Chavez declared himself a Marxist - it is just more empty rhetoric to accompany all the other meaningless words that come out of his mouth.

Rather, what struck me was the applause. It was quite weak and very tentative. It was as if people weren't sure if they should be happy and applaud but then thought about it for a second and realized that they should be in shit loads of trouble if they didn't applaud - so they applauded. Half heartedly.

Obviously, that audience didn't contain many committed Marxists. If it had there would have been a standing ovation and Chavez would have had to pause for a while before he could be heard again.

But there weren't Marxists there. Just sycophants and opportunists who will claim to believe whatever Chavez tells them they should believe.

Pretty strong evidence of how ideologically bankrupt this all is.

Deja vu or did we already see this video a long time ago? When was this recorded?

I don't particularly care whether he calls himself a Marxist or a Socialist or a Commie or whatever, but that bit at the end about God's kingdom on Earth sounds like something a crazy cult leader would say. (before he has his followers kill themselves)

Grouchoist tendency, I guess

When a narco terrorist FARC ally arms supplier drug dealing loud mouth needs to improve his image:

He dons a basset hound costume to start off on a serious and sad look in order to create an impression that he is a Christian confessing his sins and assuming the truth.

Look how he hangs his head for affect. He is acting.He looks both serious, and sad at first.

Being a Marxist/christian whatever will gather him more honor than the foul stinking hole of just messing up the economy and covering up for the FARC...

In the end he can properly show indignation because he has already given himself the excuse to ( at least in his mind and in the mind of the cons and of the folks who would never dare go against that which he proclaims now to be)

As an extreme narcissist/ sociopath he will not register the real emotional reaction of others.It is sufficient for him is owns emotions.For those sufficiently narcissistic to live vicariously through him( their mirror)it will work, but for the rest of us it seems totally preposterous.

Hugo Chávez is no Ludovico Silva. Naturally, he clings and fosters a sort of "Marxist Vulgata" (for those who have not even read Das Kapital), which is easy to do: Marxism -as a system of ideas- has that strange quality to be interpreted and promoted in very different levels of abstraction and complexity. From hard-bound 5,000 page theses, to "estampitas" and red baseball caps with the visage of Che, Fidel, Chávez and Bolívar as the "Fantastic 4".

But, as Isaiah Berlin said, Marx would have gotten a B- in philosophy, a C in economics, and an A in politics. Marxism, more than an economic school, more than a theory of history and society, is a political creed and manual, an an intellectual approach to siphon out power from society to its leaders -in this case, a vanguard of self appointed revolutionaries.

When Chavismo built its own winning coalition back in the 1990s, it included people from all of the anti-party sides, left and right, who thought that a stern hand would lead us out of the mess, possibly without a day of reckoning. In any case, the old marxist left wing of the coalition has prevailed (as its leader was THE leader of the pack), and they believe -despite the chicanery, prevarication and corruption of many- they are creating a socialist revolutionary dream (which means, to most, that there will be no more bourgeoisie, no more bad rich people): "Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production..." (Communist manifest, II).

We should take this Marxism seriously, as it ultimately wants to deprive society of power through its own means. As Salvador de la Plaza said back in 1928, noting that Venezuela was, at heart, a country strewn of liberal beliefs, so that liberal actions were means to an end: "... nosotros no debemos esperar como tu entiendes, a que se puedan formar fuerzas en el interior que por sí solas, puedan derrocar la tiranía que apoyan los dos imperialismos… el trabajo dentro de Venezuela como base, hemos llegado a la conclusión que hay que empezar por impulsar a la pequeña burguesía a que derroque a Gómez para luego, dentro de su Estado, a base de sus propias aspiraciones de libertad de pensamiento, reunión, etc., poder nosotros cumplir nuestra misión." (letter to Ricardo Martínez, august de 1928).

Whatever Chavez is, in any case, he can never be mistaken for someone who believes in liberty and limited power.

Has anyone thought about the possibility of FARC taking over Venezuela if Chavez falls?

Chavez has adpoted some many isms that all he needs to complete the catalog of nonsense isms is adpoting Chichism and Limonadaism (sorry, you have to e venezueklan to get these two)...LOL....Cosas veredes, Sancho...cosas veredes