Adán Chavez: “These are the ideas the Bolivarian revolution must be based upon”

A meeting took place at the Rouge convention hall of the Hotel Alba in Caracas to launch Alan Woods' book Reformism or revolution. Marxism and Socialism of the 21st Century (a reply to Heinz Dieterich). More than 100 people, workers, students and political leaders of the Bolivarian movement filled the room and listened to the ideas of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT). We had the honour to have as a presenter Adán Chávez, candidate for the governorship of Barinas, who is the former minister of Education and former ambassador to Cuba, amongst other positions he has occupied in the leadership of the revolution. A few years ago Adán Chávez also presented Alan Woods' book Reason in Revolt in Cuba, with great success. Adán Chávez introduced the book in a plain and colloquial manner. He started by saying that, 'It is an honour for me to present the book Reformism or Revolution. Unfortunately I have only had the time to read a small part of the work, but what I have read is enough to make clear what its aims are. It encourages us to read the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky'. And he continued: 'After the fall of the USSR, many have abandoned the ideas of Marxism and try to hide behind abstractions in the clouds in order to disguise their revisionism'.