Caracas, Feb 12 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela has offered Argentina a bilateral alliance to face foreseeable crisis in the fields of energy and food.
During a meeting with Argentinean officials and businessmen at the Miraflores Presidential Palace on Tuesday, Chavez noted that both nations complement each other perfectly to face any energy or food problem that might emerge.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez described the two South American countries as points of regional economic, political and cultural gears in the context of the ongoing process of regional unity.
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The bolivarian government should spend less time concentrating its energies on organizing joint ventures with foreign capitalists and "socialist" governments, and more time instead encouraging grassroots-level ventures and contacts between the mass of its organized socialist citizenry and people's base organizations in these other countries. This, however, would take more effort; and is certainly not the path of least resistance. Far from it. It would clearly take much more effort and planning to create such a new system across borders. But that's the whole point of socialist revolution, isn't it? To build entirely new socialist relations among peoples and classes from the ground up.
ReplyDeleteSocialism is by its very nature internationalist; and concrete expressions of internationalism are what appear to be lacking in much of what is passing for socialism in Venezuela at the moment -- where a more parochial and traditional nationalism instead seems more to be the order of the day. The assumption seems to be that widespread professions of "socialism" being made inside Venezuela are not in fact merely paid lip-service, and empty rhetoric, in the mouths of the bolivarian leadership and its rank and file apparatus. But that still actually remains to be seen.