Monday, February 11, 2008
Chavez Urges Greater Efficiency in Increasing Venezuelan Food Production
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez continued to focus his efforts to increase national food production on his Sunday TV and radio program Aló Presidente yesterday. The president visited rice farmers and a rice-processing plant in the central state of Barinas and demanded that idle land be expropriated in order to maximize production in the region.
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All abandoned industrial capacity must not only be seized by the bolivarian socialist government -- it must also be seized without compensation. Tough tittie for capitalists who just up and walk away from serving the needs of the country, because they "can't make a profit" or some such bilge. There are far more important considerations here than the maintenance of their sacred "private property" rights. If they want "compensation" they should just sell out. Cheap. And be quick about it.
ReplyDeleteIn this article we see revealed one big reason why the bolivarian socialist revolution has been stalling -- and the masses made commensurately unhappy -- and why they narrowly voted-down the recent poorly-run referendum: the government is still being run in the usual bourgeois "top down" manner. Even high-handedly so. And at various levels, so-called "bolivarian" politicos and bureaucrats have become brakes and stalls on progress of the Revolution: because their personal concerns, etc., have clearly come to dominate over the greater good -- and the masses have no mechanism by which to quickly deal with these situations: like being able to remove these gatekeepers and shirkers -- and maybe even saboteurs -- from office, at the first sign of problems.
So far, most venezuelans clearly rely far too much on the good judgement and leadership of just one man: Hugo Chávez Frías. But a democratic and socialist country can't continue far down this path. It invites assassination and bloody mischief, for one thing -- if not rearing the ugly specter of bureaucratism and stalinism. Clearly, if power does not pass from the still-existing bourgeois order in Venezuela to a council system where elected leaders execute their duties at the direct sufferance of their immediate electors, then things are quickly going to go even further downhill. And don't think a subsequent escualido victory at the polls -- with Yanqui money, of course -- won't lead quickly to bloody repression: and zero chance of anything "socialist" in América Latina for a very long time.