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CORRESPONDENCE: OSCAR AND FRANZ - REVOLUYION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION
by Franz J. T. Lee
Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2005 at 8:32 AM
admin@franzlee.org Mérida, Vene<uela.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2005 Franz - Just read your latest on Vheadline.com, Franz. Although I don't understand 1/3 of what you write (lol) ... I get the gist. As I see it, the counter-revolution is the revolution. In other words, I can compare it to a bunch of people stranded on an island. In the beginning everyone is on the same wavelength (survival). As time passes, people begin to plan escape, settlement, partnerships, wivery, etc.
The truly committed will be there throughout. The counter revolution will flourish with respect to the basic notion of what the best
decisions/solution are for ALL ... and not necessarily for the
partnerships, escapists, couples, etc.
I believe that Chavez is well aware of this ... and is leaving it up to the
people to take the revolution (counter-revolution) forward ...
Abrazos a todos por alli,
Oscar
VHeadline Commentarist.
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Oscar,
Your island "utopia" is excellent, it perfectly explains our universal, closed, systemic catastrophe! A basic problem is that we should learn to know the logics of motion, the science, the algebra, the mathematics of revolution, of capitalism -- contradictory dialectics -- without this method, we cannot unite or integrate ourselves; with absolutist, metaphysical, feudalist, formal logics, with an oligarchic, dualistic, bicameral, binary, one-track mind we cannot topple capitalism, imperialism and globalization.
Oscar, your island, based on work, not on human creativity and creation, is our closed, universal capitalist world. We were taught about the revolution by our European masters, to love the revolution -- Hegel, Marx, all were hilarious about the revolution -- Europe glorified the revolution, the French Revolution. Viva la Revolución!!! Viva Capitalism and Imperialism! To the Guillotine with the Counter-Revolutionaries!! With the Nobility, Clergy, Rebelling Serfs, Striking Terrorist Workers, radical Marxists and Socialists!!! Long Live Democracy!!!
Even the Holy Bible states: You cannot serve two masters at the same time. How can "revolution" express the class or even human interests of capitalists and workers at the same time? Even in formal logic this is impossible, is absurd. Bush and Chávez cannot be "liberators" at the same time, as such liberty would become absurd, would lose its meaning.
I know that words are just letters of the alphabet, but their praxical and theoretical content in daily life must reflect the lovely fragrance or the death smell hanging over Fallujah or New Orleans. As precise as our armed counter-revolutionary marksmanship against globalization necessarily must be, so incisive also must be our intellectual emancipatory weapons. Currently, Orwellian double-talk, newspeak turns war into peace, liberty into slavery, democracy into dictatorship or tyranny, etc.
This revolution was only for the ruling capitalist classes, to freely expand capitalism, to exploit labor equally, and to build imperialist fraternities, holy alliances, United Nations, commonwealths, etc. Till today the counter-revolutionaries, who innocently oppose all these, still believe that they are Smithian, liberal, good capitalists, who make the revolution for billions. In reality many of them are Kautskyian reformists, that is, real, true capitalist revolutionaries, that condemn those who oppose the world system. They murder and assassinate the true Negation of Capitalism, the counter-revoltionaries, socialists. This is what happened to Patrice Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral, Che Guevara, Salvador Allende, etc.
We, the "miserables" of Victor Hugo, accepted the revolution, the French, British and American ones, without noticing that they did not talk about us, about our class interests. The bourgeois revolutionary ruling class ideals of Freedom, Equality and Fraternity, also of Democracy and good liberal capitalism have absolutely nothing to do with us, but we were socialized, educated and bamboozled that they also express our liberty.
All these revolutions had the historic task of globalizing and eternalizing capitalist, master-servant exploitation, domination, racism, murder and dehumanization of the outcasts of "revolutionary society". The trick of the mental holocaust -- of colonial education and socialization -- was to inculcate the pariahs, the freedom fighters, with bourgeois, capitalist, revolutionary ideas and ideals. This ideological, mental control was perfect, innocently we all were making the "revolution", the globalization of capitalism.
This mental, logical turning, dialectical rotation, of course, will cause mental acrobatics, mental problems. However, this is part of a new scientific práxis and philosophic theory. Not only were we sent on a wild goose chase with capitalist, colonial, imperialist "Christian religion", with Jesus and God, but worse even, also with the bourgeois democratic capitalist "revolution" itself. Small wonder that ever since 1917, for a whole century, every liberatory effort ended up in "globalization".
This should be avoided in the Bolivarian Revolution, which is a Bolivarian "Counter-Revolution", Counter-Globalization, in transition, in transvolution, towards total Human Emancipation, Creativity and Creation.
It is all as simple as this, Oscar.
Anything that moves is contradictory, contains opposites, is dialectical. As such is world revolution, workers' counter-revolution within the global capitalist revolution. We counter the global alienating, exploitative, dominating results of world capitalist revolution. Revolution is Revolution. Something else, its opposite, has to counter it, its counter-revolution. If we are anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, by all counts of logics, then we are counter-capitalist, counter-imperialist, against its world revolutionary process, that was launched in 1775 in the Americas, 1789 in France, and in 1830 in Britain, and which now, as revolutionary globalization, as fulfillment, as self-realization, culminates in the USA.
If we do not understand the above, things will develop topsy-turvy, that is, we will make a revolution that will make Washington DC smile from ear to ear, and we will attack the counter-revolution, making Washington DC laugh, because we are doing the job for Bush. Something similar has happened on your island, in many a revolution, across the 20th century.
Talking about new, about innovation and novelty, this theoretical element in the Bolivarian Emancipation would certainly open new vistas, will steer straight to Human Emancipation and Creation. Like you, suddenly Bush and the 15 CIA will not understand the world anymore, at least the "one third" of our invisible, invulnerable, invincible praxical and theoretical attacks.
If you and I barely can understand our new science and philosophy, how will the decadent, fascist enemy understand anything that we do or talk about. This was originally the master trick of colonialism, we had no idea what they were doing or thinking, and, even if we tried, only very few of us would have understood the dimensions of their heinous, capital, cardinal crimes. Let us give them a taste of their own savagery, put them into their own flesh-pots of barbarism, make a sancocho of their "neo-liberal" brutality.
Greetings,
Franz.
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