You can try and pass this off as a trifling difference of opinion, but we all know you’re in league with various class enemies. Your demand for ‘proof’ is a ridiculous bourgeois concept.

Free Hicks.

But Comrade Keeler, your analysis omits the central fact that Venezuela is a swamp that must be drained! The false deviationist and splittist Chavez (trying to deceive the working class through having a hispanic name like Che!) fails to understand the true and historically materialistically confirmed mission of TEH LAST SUPERPOWER! When Halliburton take over the re-education contracts, he’ll be first up against the wall!

I must say that I’ve been a bit disappointed at the lack of comment on LP (Bourgeois Left), Leftwrites (Revolutionary Somethingorotherhatethepolicebuyjeffsparrowsbook) http://www.leftwrites.net/ and Lastsuperpower (Theonlyrealgenuineleftandalltherestofyouareapackofcounterrevolutionaryfascistcuntysoftcockswhodeservedtobehauledbeforearevolutionarypeoplestribunalandshot) about the great Venezuelan Project. http://www.lastsuperpower.net/docs/alcultrevdef

Well in case nobody has heard, president Hugo Chavez has just been appointed dictator. The Venezuelan National Assembly approved an enabling act granting Chávez the power to rule by decree for 18 months. According to Green Left Weekly’s twisted logic:

Chavez has already begun to replace liberal democracy with a participatory democracy that is responsive to people’s needs, not to the interests of capitalist elites. It is this, together with Chavez’s economic program and anti-imperialist foreign policy, that has led the US and the corporate media to portray him as a dictator in the making. However, the people who are directly experiencing this transformation take the opposite view. A 2005 opinion poll by Latinobarometro found that more people in Venezuela consider their country “totally democraticâ€? than any other nation in Latin America.

In order to understand what is meant by participatory democracy, it is necessary to explain that the existing state structures inherited from the ancien regime were riddled with corruption, remote and unresponsive to people’s needs, and in many cases staffed by government opponents who used their positions to undermine service delivery and resist reform. As a consequence, a parallel state structure began to emerge. The hugely popular social misiones, which are based in the barrios and provide everything from free health care to subsidised food markets, are run at arm’s length from government ministries. Critically, they are also subject to direct community involvement and control.

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/697/36215

So in case no one gets it, the future of the ‘socialist project’ is more dictatorship.

Talk about your false gods. Absolutely pathetic.