tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923760936217911345.post8838258013712561906..comments2008-02-13T17:34:11.333-04:30News Desknoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923760936217911345.post-80770324492016495662008-02-13T17:34:11.333-04:302008-02-13T17:34:11.333-04:30The 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.<BR/><BR/>Socialism is by its very nature <I>internationalist</I>; 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.El Ch�http://www.blogger.com/profile/10033811987040588253noreply@blogger.com