From: Paul Zarembka (zarembka@BUFFALO.EDU)
Date: Thu May 26 2005 - 13:32:00 EDT
You mean, Paul, that Chavez has NOT invoked Marxism but rather Che? If so, to my way of thinking, the article in question begins with a distortion. Paul Z. ************************************************************************ RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, Paul Zarembka, editor, Elsevier Science ********************* http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka On Thu, 26 May 2005, Paul Bullock wrote: > 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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