At first, Tascón was a little disingenuous. He expressed surprise at the results of the election, in which all the winners came from the top ranks. That's just what most everybody had suspected all along would happen.
Then Tascón came clean and spoke out, latching on to the original stated intention that power within the PSUV would be structured from the bottom upwards.
- "Chávez said it was going to be the most democratic party in the world," he declared. "But that's false."
Then he said it was time to shut up because the people had spoken.
It's easy to take potshots at Luis Tascón -- because his biggest problem, as for so many activists is that they lack the backing of a strong, well-established party. So this is a kind of 'cart before the horse', 'chicken-or-egg' kinda problem. However of course, opportunists of any political stripe will conveniently ignore this fact, and concentrate on hatcheting fighters like Tascón & friends in the back for whatever petty, personal or sectarian ends.
ReplyDeleteTherefore the only remedy to the "problem" with Luis Tascón here is genuine party and socialist revolutionary democracy. And that's what you don't have in a phony revolution run by bureaucratic self-promoters. Just ask anyone who lived under Joe Stalin and the other stalinists the world over. They are so very much like the social-democrat reformist self-promoters they continually conspire with against the working-class...
If Luis Tascón were not constantly on the defensive, the situation would not nearly as often end up so combative on the 'same' side. But he most certainly has a most cogent point here: the PSUV is in the process of being hijacked by The Usual Suspects -- and the Party grassroots need to seize control of it back, before it is too late for either socialism or democracy in Venezuela, or anywhere else in América Latina.