There is a very large contradiction in all of this, Chavez calling for a socialist state, saying that the bourgeois state must be destroyed and in its place a proletarian state must be created, but at the same time asking for longer electoral terms and unlimited reelections. This contradiction may have been enough to show the 45% of abstention, that Chavez was not in reality prepared to create a socialist state.

Though the confusion over the matter also lays in the fact that (ignoring the allowing of Chavez to do what he wants in a state of emergency thing) the reform was generally very progressive, a 36 hour working week, recognition of collective property, recognition of communal councils, voting age lowered to 16, the autonomy of the banks thing etc. So this shows that the masses were willing to not gain these in order to prevent Chavez’s more authoritarian reforms going through.

I am a Socialist, I believe in the ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky but I would like you to know as a Trotskyist I do not support the Castro regime, I do recognise its progressive structures brought about by a nationalised planned economy, but as a Trotskyist I demand that the masses themselves control society that they control where their profits go and not a bureaucratic layer as in the USSR (post Lenin), China, Vietnam, Laos, Eastern Europe, N Korea etc. These states are caricatures of socialism. We also do not want Chavez to become another Castro, we want him to dismantle the bourgeois state, hand over all power the the workers themselves, nationalise the economy and let the workers plan it, there is no room for Chavez in the final analysis of our demands for the creating of a socialist state, he can merely play as the spark that ignites it.

Indeed, people will not vote for a dictator when they can look and see what deprivation and injustice will follow. Comrades, the Marxist experiment is over. It doesn’t work. It claimed to be a scientific theory, and was falsified, because it inevitably leads to autocracy, with injustice and squalor for everyone else. By its own theoretical predictions it fails. So let go.

Gracias por callar al mini-castro!

Isn’t it great when democracy works?

LOL.

Expect the extreme right to overplay its hand.

There must be REVOLUTION. Chavez is a great man and he is a hero but now it’s time for the workers to take the government by force because the bureaucrats of the government and of the PSUV did what they had to do…..and that was perserve capitalism.

The bureaucrats and the reformists, the fifth column, of the PSUV are the ones who made this happen. The workers must now become more radical themselves.