From: Paul Bullock (paulbullock@EBMS-LTD.CO.UK)
Date: Thu May 26 2005 - 12:16:13 EDT
Paul, Chavez has publicly referred to learning from Che - who was undoubtedly a Marxist - and his period as a government minister, his concept of the new man etc in speeches. Otherwise his references are to socialism or a new kind etc, using the odd Trotsky quote, and so on. Any one with the standard reactionary filling who hears any of this will deduce that Chavist is 'becoming' a Marxist, by which they will mean that they now oppose him. What is important is the underlying class conflict that gives rise to the use of , or rejection of, expressions. Paul B ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Zarembka" <zarembka@BUFFALO.EDU> To: <OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 12:33 PM Subject: [OPE-L] Chavez and Marxism > Michael, > > VNews has an article of last Monday at http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=35312. It begins: > > "Let me begin by stressing that I believe wholeheartedly in President Chavez and his Revolution ... but. I fear that by his invocation of Marxism -- and by the occasional Marxist flavored comments which have occasionally been made in this journal -- a great historical chance is being jeopardized ... the chance to create a new kind of post Marxist socialism, one based on decentralization, worker's cooperatives, and a truly moral and spiritual, as opposed to coldly rationalist, historical materialist, road to social justice." > > Afterwards there is no evidence offered that Chavez invokes Marxism. Do you know if he has and what he said? > > Paul Z. > > ************************************************************************* > RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, Paul Zarembka, editor, Elsevier Science > ********************** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka > >
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