BIG BROTHER, WORLD FASCISM, VENEZUELA, CHÁVEZ

By Franz J. T. Lee.

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Why Marx is man of the moment

He had globalisation sussed 150 years ago

Francis Wheen
Sunday July 17, 2005
The Observer

A penniless asylum seeker in London was vilified across two pages of the Daily Mail last week. No surprises there, perhaps - except that the villain in question has been dead since 1883. 'Marx the Monster' was the Mail's furious reaction to the news that thousands of Radio 4 listeners had chosen Karl Marx as their favourite thinker. 'His genocidal disciples include Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot - and even Mugabe. So why has Karl Marx just been voted the greatest philosopher ever?'

The puzzlement is understandable. Fifteen years ago, after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, there appeared to be a general assumption that Marx was now an ex-parrot. He had kicked the bucket, shuffled off his mortal coil and been buried forever under the rubble of the Berlin Wall. No one need think about him - still less read him - ever again.

'What we are witnessing,' Francis Fukuyama proclaimed at the end of the Cold War, 'is not just the ... passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution.'

But history soon returned with a vengeance. By August 1998, economic meltdown in Russia, currency collapses in Asia and market panic around the world prompted the Financial Times to wonder if we had moved 'from the triumph of global capitalism to its crisis in barely a decade'. The article was headlined 'Das Kapital Revisited'.

Even those who gained most from the system began to question its viability. The billionaire speculator George Soros now warns that the herd instinct of capital-owners such as himself must be controlled before they trample everyone else underfoot. 'Marx and Engels gave a very good analysis of the capitalist system 150 years ago, better in some ways, I must say, than the equilibrium theory of classical economics,' he writes. 'The main reason why their dire predictions did not come true was because of countervailing political interventions in democratic countries. Unfortunately we are once again in danger of drawing the wrong conclusions from the lessons of history. This time the danger comes not from communism but from market fundamentalism.'

In October 1997 the business correspondent of the New Yorker, John Cassidy, reported a conversation with an investment banker. 'The longer I spend on Wall Street, the more convinced I am that Marx was right,' the financier said. 'I am absolutely convinced that Marx's approach is the best way to look at capitalism.' His curiosity aroused, Cassidy read Marx for the first time. He found 'riveting passages about globalisation, inequality, political corruption, monopolisation, technical progress, the decline of high culture, and the enervating nature of modern existence - issues that economists are now confronting anew, sometimes without realising that they are walking in Marx's footsteps'.

Quoting the famous slogan coined by James Carville for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992 ('It's the economy, stupid'), Cassidy pointed out that 'Marx's own term for this theory was "the materialist conception of history", and it is now so widely accepted that analysts of all political views use it, like Carville, without any attribution.'

Like Molière's bourgeois gentleman who discovered to his amazement that for more than 40 years he had been speaking prose without knowing it, much of the Western bourgeoisie absorbed Marx's ideas without ever noticing. It was a belated reading of Marx in the 1990s that inspired the financial journalist James Buchan to write his brilliant study Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money (1997).

'Everybody I know now believes that their attitudes are to an extent a creation of their material circumstances,' he wrote, 'and that changes in the ways things are produced profoundly affect the affairs of humanity even outside the workshop or factory. It is largely through Marx, rather than political economy, that those notions have come down to us.'

Even the Economist journalists John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, eager cheerleaders for turbo-capitalism, acknowledge the debt. 'As a prophet of socialism Marx may be kaput,' they wrote in A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation (2000), 'but as a prophet of the "universal interdependence of nations" as he called globalisation, he can still seem startlingly relevant.' Their greatest fear was that 'the more successful globalisation becomes the more it seems to whip up its own backlash' - or, as Marx himself said, that modern industry produces its own gravediggers.

The bourgeoisie has not died. But nor has Marx: his errors or unfulfilled prophecies about capitalism are eclipsed and transcended by the piercing accuracy with which he revealed the nature of the beast. 'Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones,' he wrote in The Communist Manifesto.

Until quite recently most people in this country seemed to stay in the same job or institution throughout their working lives - but who does so now? As Marx put it: 'All that is solid melts into air.'

In his other great masterpiece, Das Kapital, he showed how all that is truly human becomes congealed into inanimate objects - commodities - which then acquire tremendous power and vigour, tyrannising the people who produce them.

The result of this week's BBC poll suggests that Marx's portrayal of the forces that govern our lives - and of the instability, alienation and exploitation they produce - still resonates, and can still bring the world into focus. Far from being buried under the rubble of the Berlin Wall, he may only now be emerging in his true significance. For all the anguished, uncomprehending howls from the right-wing press, Karl Marx could yet become the most influential thinker of the 21st century.

· Francis Wheen's acclaimed biography Karl Marx is published by Fourth Estate
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1530250,00.html

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Hacia el nuevo socialismo del siglo XXI, tenemos que superarnos como auto-creadores y auto-emancipadores

Por: Franz J. T. Lee
Publicado el Sábado, 06/08/05 02:49pm


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Nuestro último análisis sobre “Peak Oil” ha causado intensas discusiones aquí en Venezuela y en otras partes del mindo.

Michael C. Ruppert, experto global de este tema, también publicó ese artículo en su propia página web:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/072705_world_stories.shtml#2

Sin embargo, fue una carta muy interesante de uno de los lectores de Vheadline, Harry Minetree, que me inspiró a explicar lo siguiente con respecto a algunos aspectos de la crítica situación a nivel mundial.

Entre otras cosas, Harry Minetree escribe:
“Su artículo sobre 'Peak Oil' es excelente; informa sobre la verdad y causa un miedo terrible. No obstante me pregunto, si su título implica, que la solución del Problema (o la vía más prometedora para posponer el Inevitable Fin) es una revolución Comunista internacional”.
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Como nos recuerda el filósofo Hegel, aquí en la Tierra, y en otras partes de nuestro “Universo”, lógico-formal y dialécticamente, dentro de nuestro sistema cerrado, limitado y finito, todo lo que llega a existir, merece perecer. Esta realidad la presenciamos diariamente en todas partes. Que no nos gusta esta Verdad fluyente, que individualmente no queremos perecer por completo, esto es otra historia, pero es una realidad de saber, de vivir, de morir y de trascender. La vida de la propia especie humana está en juego actualmente.

Así que un día, pronto o tarde, cuando ha desvanecido su energía vital y cuando se ha vuelto vil, senil y estéril, nuestro modo de producción actual, el capitalismo - incluyendo todo lo que está vinculado a él, todas sus afirmaciones y negaciones, incluso su Negación, el Socialismo, y su Negación de la Negación, el Comunismo - igual que el Sol y la Vía Galáctica, es destinado a perecer y a desvanecer en el olvido.

Sí, igual que tantas de sus víctimas sin ayuda y sin esperanza, igual que tantos centenares de millones de seres humanos desconocidos, que fueron asesinados despiadadamente o sometidos a relaciones de carácter amo-esclavo, este orden mundial fascista - que se encuentra en agonía severaa, infinita y eterna, igual que los imperios coloniales europeos - también desvanecerá inexorablemente; así les pasó a Nero, Caligula, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco, Salazar, Mobutu, Idi Amin, etc. Y les pasará a Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, etc.

Las siguientes reflexiones científicas y filosóficas, libres de práctica contrarrevolucionaria e ideología reformista, en una época de guerra nuclear que nos amenaza, son de especial significado en cuanto a la postulación de una nueva práxis y teoría para la Revolución Bolivariana aquí en Venezuela.

A causa de previas situaciones históricas insoportables, que fueron generadas por relaciones perversas entre la naturaleza y la sociedad y por no-relaciones unilaterales, lógico-formales, explotadoras y dominadoras hacia la Naturaleza, el Hombre, es decir, la Sociedad o la “Corona de la Creación” introdujo el Trabajo, que nos llevó finalmente a la situación actual apocalíptica.

A nivel interno, el Hombre, la Sociedad, el Hombre Dominante, a través de las relaciones de clase y de las relaciones de cosas, comenzó a destruirse a sí mismo; de tal modo, que la composición orgánica del capital se ha vuelto absurda, y que actualmente, con la ayuda de las maquinas y las computadoras, menos que 2% de la fuerza de trabajo total produce la mayoría de la mercancía en el mercado mundial, la cual además sólo la intercambian los países metropolitanos entre ellos. Africa prácticamente ha desaparecido del mapa económico global; con excepción de la producción de petróleo, quizás sólo participa con un 1%. Por orden social, por decaimiento social y por decadencia humana, miles de millones son condenados a una muerte agónica, que ya comenzó en Afganistán e Irak, y que ahora se mueve de la “Oceanía” del norte hacia la Eurasia altamente poblada.

A nivel ideológico, se fabricaron muchas utopías sociales, tanto positivas como negativas, tratando de dibujar un futuro feliz, un final feliz, que no tiene nada que ver con los procesos intergalácticos: la “Politeia” de Platón, la “Ciudad de Dios” de San Agustín, “Nova Atlantis” de Bacon, el “Cielo” bíblico, el “Nirvana” de los Hindúes, los “Terrenos Eternos para la Caza” de los Indígenas, la “Democracia” de la Revolución Francesa, el “Socialismo y Comunismo” de Marx, Engels, Lenin y Trotski, el “Capitalismo” alias el “Fascismo” de Hitler, Mussolini y Bush, etc.

La intención de todos era la de dar consuelo y paz a la mente, el espíritu y el alma de una especie, que de manera arrogante se denominó como “Corona de la Creación”, como la “Máxima Flor de la Naturaleza” y como el “Parangón de los Animales”. En realidad, a través de los milenios y a través del proceso del trabajo, esta “corona civilizada”, esta punta de lanza “cristiana y occidental” ha degenerado progresivamente de un homo sapiens sapiens a un homo homini lupus, y así jaló a cualquier persona y a cualquier cosa en la Tierra al epicentro de su caldero capitalista, al Peak Oil, al Moloch Imperialista.

Segundo, desde el punto de vista de los riscos científicos y las profundidades filosóficas intergalácticas, las reflexiones anteriores no tienen nada que ver con los sistemas éticos del control mental de la clase dominante o con los productos de los procesos transhistóricos del trabajo, hechos por el hombre, y especialmente nada que ver con las normas bi-camerales o las morales binarias, es decir, con libertad, igualdad y fraternidad burgués-capitalista, o con bueno o malo, con correcto o falso, con dios o el diablo, con la vida o la muerte, con el cielo o el infierno, con la paz o la guerra, con la democracia o el terrorismo.

El Armagedón actual que nos amenaza y del cual muy pocas personas son realmente conscientes, el mismo que pasó recientemente en Madrid y en Londres, el mismo que amenaza a Venezuela permanentemente, simplemente es el resultado del egoísmo, el vicio y la avaricia de unos criminales de la clase dominante, poderosos, encandilados por el poder, parasíticos y opulentos, que de manera descarada han utilizado y mal usado las fuerzas sociales y naturales, han producido armas mortales de destrucción masiva, y hace mucho tiempo atrás, a nivel global, han iniciado una gigantesca reacción en cadena de auto-aniquilación, amenaza nuclear de la vida humana y voraz destrucción planetaria, la cual los gobernantes mismos ya no son capaces de parar ni de controlar.

Ya desde Sodoma y Gomorra, desde Hiroshima y Nagasaki, este peligro inminente de la auto destrucción estaba persiguiendo al planeta tierra.

¡Si no despertamos pronto, entonces no nos quedará amanecer humano alguno!

Prácticamente dentro de un parpadeo, dentro de sólo 150 de aproximadamente 6 mil millones de años de revolución terrenal intergaláctica, la revolución burgués-democrático-capitalista, impulsada transhistóricamente y a nivel global por varias clases dominantes - amos democráticos y aristocráticos, clero y nobleza feudal, tiranos y dictadores, capitalistas e imperialistas, “verdaderos socialistas real existentes” alias Estalinistas y “Marxistas-Leninistas”, lacayos locales de la CIA y traidores nacionales, etc. - todos son y siguen involucrados en la destrucción total del Planeta Tierra, y con ella de la vida humana misma.

Peak Oil y los Planes Estadounidenses abiertos y encubiertos de una Intervención en Venezuela son parte intrínseca de esta conflagración global.

Esta tragedia mundial no permite ningún “intento de negociar un compromiso internacional en el último interés propio de la Vida en la Tierra”. Ciertamente existen “suficientes personas razonables tanto con poder como con prudencia para considerar seriamente la noción de paz como una alternativa esperanzadora”. (Harry Minetree)

Generalmente, saborear tales excelentes frutas humanas, humanitarias y humanistas como la reconciliación, los comités de la verdad, los diálogos, las oraciones, los acuerdos entre caballeros y las conversaciones de paz, realmente es fino, sin embargo, dentro de la ardiente entropía mundial, de la guerra global de clases, en la cual históricamente nunca ninguna clase dominante jamás ha dejado su trono pacíficamente, dentro de la abierta competencia por la hegemonía global, impulsada por el gas y el petróleo, y más preciso, dentro de la lucha a vida y muerte del dólar versus el euro, en realidad, es decir, en realpolitik, tales delicadezas ideológicas, no violentas, pacifistas y gandhistas, sencillamente pierden todo su sabor revolucionario y toda su fragancia emancipatoria; la bota militar yanqui pisa a nuestras caras llenas de sangre, y los verdaderos intereses de la sobrevivencia de la humanidad quedan a fuera en el frío.

Resumiendo, como dijimos anteriormente, primero no podemos parar los procesos naturales, sociales, históricos, planetarios y galácticos, porque no obedecen las reglas explotadoras y leyes dominadoras del egoísmo, la arrogancia y la megalomanía humana, de la satisfacción unilateral y de las necesidades clasistas exclusivamente humanas por medios del proceso globalizado del trabajo.

Segundo, por más fantasías, fantasmagorías y quimeras que inventamos, incluyendo a ángeles y demonios, como nos da la gana, por más dioses y diablos y todo tipo de valores éticos y de moral ideológica de clase dominante que resucitamos, no necesariamente reflejan las realidades y creaciones micro, meso y macro cósmicas. Cualquier invento, cualquier experimento puede fallar, puede producir resultados desastrosos y puede volar en pedazos a nuestro planeta.

Bolivarianos, para nuestra sobrevivencia contra el fascismo yanqui y contra el imperialismo mundial, no sólo nuestras ideas y pensamientos revolucionarios tienen que aproximarse a la realidad concreta venezolana e internacional, mucho más importante es, que la realidad global objetiva misma tiene que moverse hacia nuestros pensamientos conscientes y colectivos, hacia nuestra teoría emancipatoria y hacia nuestra filosofía del éxodo creativo.

Ahora, finalmente, en cuanto a la “pregunta” muy sana de Harry Minetree sobre nuestra “revolución Comunista internacional”:

“No obstante me pregunto, si su título implica, que la solución del Problema (o la vía más prometedora para posponer el Inevitable Fin) es una revolución Comunista internacional”.

Un cuidadoso estudio de todos mis comentarios previos revelará, que yo nunca utilizo el concepto “Comunismo” como panacea global para evitar el Apocalipsis humano. Utilizo el término “Socialismo” como la Negación dialéctica interna del Capitalismo, de la Revolución Francesa, que actualmente se globaliza completamente. También, el propio concepto “Revolución”, lo considero de ser un invento burgués-capitalista-democrático y un excelente arma de la clase dominante, que hay que superar a través de la Creación y la Creatividad Humana, no a través del Trabajo Humano y de la Producción Humana, que en todo caso han causado el desastre actual.

Como Bolivarianos, como Libertadores, tenemos que hacer, pensar y encontrar los medios de la Emancipación humana transvolucionaria, la energía liberadora y el poder para pasar el Rubicon, el Exodo de todos los modos de producción bi-camerales y binarios, de todas las realidades y relaciones productivas sistémicas lógico-formales y dialécticas.

Dentro de la discusíon actual sobre una posible nueva socialismo del siglo XXI en Venezuela, con mucho respeto a todas las diversas opiniones, a mi modo de ver, en primer lugar, tenemos que emanciparnos de nuestro actual estado explotado como “trabajadores”; tenemos que superarnos como auto-creadores y auto-emancipadores, progresivamente, para siempre, para eliminar las palabras “trabajadores” de nuestro vocabulario revolucionario y sustituirlas con Creadores, Emancipadores.

Un trabajador, cuya fuerza de trabajo es comprada por el capitalista, está obligado a tener una no relación unilateral y perversa hacia la Naturaleza, por lo tanto, separando sus actos de sus pensamientos, pierde su creatividad; el jefe o amo piensa y da órdenes, e igual que un esclavo, el trabajador obedece y reacciona. Es esta no-relación unilateral que diferencia el trabajo de la creación, la labor de la creatividad.

Así que en nuestra opinión, la Revolución Bolivariana en Venezuela, los intentos de realizar un “Nuevo Socialismo” (Chávez), hay que verla como transición “práxico-teórica” hacia la Emancipación Global Humana.

Sólo en este sentido científico y filosófico, apoyamos una “revolución Comunista internacional”.

En cuanto a la salvación del planeta o de la raza humana, no somos profetas o Mesías. Ya solamente dependiendo de nuestros actos y pensamientos, muchas cosas podrían y pueden pasar alrededor de nosotros. Ya Hamlet de Shakespeare sabía, que existen más cosas en el Cielo y en la Tierra, que se pueden soñar en nuestra filosofía limitada. También, como dije en un previo comentario, el “Síndrome de los Polinesios” bloquea nuestra consciencia social transhistórica sobre el verdadero estado de cosas en el planeta tierra, sobre lo que todavía se puede hacer, pensar y superar.
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=40747

La línea final: El hombre lobo, dentro de sus limitados parámetros espaciales y cadenas temporales, nació en la tierra como una de las especies más débiles; de hecho, incluso parece que fue algún tipo de aborto. Comparado con otras especies “hominidas”, ha nacido ayer y hoy ya está condenado a perecer. Sin embargo, a pesar de toda su debilidad y sus desventajas, esta especie ha desarrollado un arma casi omnipotente: el pensar, los pensamientos, la teoría, la filosofía.

En primer lugar, esto no tenía nada que ver con espíritus, almas, soma sema, anamnesis, amnesia o incluso con ángeles de guarda. Junto con su parte natural, con el actuar, el hacer, la práxis y la ciencia, la especie humana prácticamente podría llegar a ser casi invencible. Sin embargo, como ya explicábamos, mientras el Hombre Dominante estaba devorando el maná del trabajo como un caníbal y bebiendo vorazmente el néctar del trabajo, todos los domingos por la mañana, en la iglesia, “los miserables” y sus sacerdotes devotos, estaban comiendo hambrientamente el magro cuerpo y sangre de Jesucristo; en realidad, de manera secreta, el Hermano Mayor ya había transubstanciado las sagradas armas de la humanidad, sus mentes y pensamientos, su intelecto, en peligrosas armas de auto-destrucción masiva.

Así que, Venezuela y el Mundo, nuestros cerebros, nuestros actos y pensamientos, nuestra Práxis y Teoría son las únicas armas que todavía podrían salvarnos de nosotros mismos, de nuestra aniquilación total, del Hermano Mayor, y que todavía podrían dirigirnos hacia la Emancipación trascendental!

Original en Inglés: "If we do not wake up soon, then there will be no human dawn left for us"
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=43853

http://www.aporrea.org/dameletra.php?docid=15844

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Published: Thursday, August 04, 2005
Bylined to: Franz J.T. Lee

Dr. Walter Rodney, Amandla, Hamba Kahle! ... Power, Go Well!

University of Los Andes (ULA) professor Franz J. T. Lee writes: As we know, this year is the 25th anniversary of the death of Dr. Walter Rodney, of one of the most promising contemporary world emancipators of African descent ... who was brutally nipped in the bud by a Maquiavellian dictator then clad in "cooperative socialist" clothing, and who was also of African descent ... that marks one of the sharpest (not "racial" or "racist") current social class contradictions in South America and the Caribbean.

Apart from the fact, that I met Walter Rodney personally, while teaching at the University of Guyana between 1977 and 1979, and that we had important political and revolutionary discussions concerning the African Revolution, the "race" and class struggle, and the then global anti-Apartheid liberatory struggle, yet, our academic and emancipatory acquaintance dates right back to 1972, when his famous classic, "Afrika: Die Geschichte einer Unterentwicklung" (How Europe Underdeveloped Africa) was published by the leftist Wagenbach-Verlag in Berlin, in 1972.

This work was translated into Spanish and published in Mexico, under the title: "Cómo Europa subdesarrolló a África." Currently I am using it in my graduate and post-graduate university classes.

To develop a historic consciousness, to understand colonialism and imperialism, to study scientifically the black face of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, this book is simply indispensable. Also this is part of Petrocaribe, of solidarity with the impoverished peoples in Haiti, Martinique and elsewhere, who had given birth to such revolutionary giants like Walter Rodney, Eric Williams and Frantz Fanon.

At the beginning of the 70s, discussing various "Third World Theories of Underdevelopment", especially of Africa, in my classes at the Technical University of Darmstadt, West Germany, among others, next to Samir Amin, C. Leys, C. Mellassoux, C. Palloix and John Saul, Walter Rodney was imperative for us to understand the historic roots of European capitalism, colonialism and imperialism, of the coming into being of the world market, of the international division of labor, of the equal, unequal and combined, global, dialectical development of transhistorical, revolutionary and emancipatory processes.

This particular controversial work generated vivid discussions and it entered the world outlook of the radical European student and youth movements of that epoch; then, in the 1960's and 1970's, already very much occupied with global protests against the Vietnam War, furthering the anti-imperialist struggle, organizing the Class and Armed Struggle in Western Europe, supporting the guerrilla movements in Africa, the Middle East, Cuba and Central America, helping the Black Power and Black Consciousness movements, of Steve Biko in South Africa and of Malcolm X in the USA, and fighting against Racism and Apartheid in Southern Africa.

Also, in the tradition of Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere, all over Africa, Rodney became known as a prominent Pan-Africanist and a staunch "Ujamaa" follower of African familyhood.

In this global context Walter Rodney entered the international panorama of permanent world revolution; he was void of any petty ad hominem vendettas, of nurturing "scape-goat" versions of "race struggles", of pursuing personal enrichment, power and fame.

In this revolutionary spirit, cultivating "non-racial politics", as such, I learned to know him six years later in Guyana, as co-founder of the Working People's Alliance (WPA), in the struggle for emancipation in Guyana and the Caribbean. In the daily, hot, tropical political heat of Georgetown, marching and fighting in Tiger Bay, strolling along the sea-wall, next to Father Morrison, to Cheddi Jagan, Roopnaraine, and many others, fighting against Burnham's PNC authoritarian dictatorship, we learned to know one another much better.

At the University of Guyana, by government intervention, where Rodney was refused to lecture, together with the then visiting African lecturer, Yolamu Barongo, we developed a "Political Science in Africa", later published by Zed Press in 1983, in which we gave Rodney his honorable revolutionary role as world-renowned African dependency political activist and revolutionary thinker.

As political scientist, Rodney was very precise in the usage of his concepts, of revolutionary terms and theory. As far as I know, he never participated in nonsensical discussions for hours without end, or in political rigmaroles and sophistry. In Guyana, as the common people themselves say: In local politics, Rodney could very well distinguish "fowl egg from fowl dung".

He was upright and straightforward, he called a spade, a spade, a fascist, a fascist, whether s/he was black, white or colored, whether Afro-Guyanese or Indo-Guyanese. He clearly had developed a historical class consciousness and knew that real, true, scientific, philosophical socialism was the only road left towards world emancipation for the colonial and neocolonial "damned of the earth" (Frantz Fanon).

This is why he had to be assassinated by the PNC Burnham regime, by its protected hit-man Gregory Smith, in the geopolitical interest of its then already traditional boss, of the North American CIA, that already at the end of the fifties blocked the "communist" Jagan from democratically coming into power, and that favored then already the fraudulent elections of "socialist" L. F. S. Burnham.

Rodney like Malcolm X knew that those whom the gods love, whom the poor people love, die young; running for office in the 1980 elections, Rodney was brutally assassinated by an officer of the Guyana Defense Force, Sergeant Gregory Smith, who acted as an agent and mercenary of the then governing People's National Congress.

Today, the following reflections describe the magnitude of the scientific wealth and political heritage, that Rodney left behind, that have to be preserved and enriched, by continuing his human, humane and humanist struggle against current global fascism in Guyana, the Caribbean, and on a world scale. Especially, more than ever, we urgently need a renaissance of Rodney's revolutionary práxis and theory in Guyana itself.

25 years later, his comrades and followers, all those who knew, read or studied his works should ask themselves: What key role did he play in our thinking (or in the thinking of our children or students), in our practical and praxical lifes, as an anti-imperialist, revolutionary advocate for human justice, social freedom and global emancipation?

Those current PNC and WPA parliamentary "backtrackers" on Rodney should remember the already classical truth of the stupid lambs that elect their own fascist butcher themselves.

Furthermore, faced by current North American and European global fascism, by the next Orwellian Global Conquest, so-called "Globalization", by the "war of ideas", by Newspeak, by a huge, coming, international Mental Holocaust, by "shock and awe", we should seriously reflect about how Rodney's writings on the "theory of development and underdevelopment" could be be used to inculcate critical knowledge, thinking skills and liberating, practical and creative paradigms, for the billions of dispossessed and disadvantaged in the USA itself, in Africa, Asia, in the Caribbean and elsewhere. In a nut-shell, we should ask: Why does Walter Rodney still live? Why do Bolivar and Jose Marti still live? Where and how do they still live?

Finally, today from Africa ... in Xhosa, in my mother tongue ... our eternal, emancipatory clarion call still be heard globally echoing: "Walter Rodney, Amandla, Hamba Kahle! ... Walter Rodney, Power, Go Well!"
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=44370

03-08-2005 Venezuela. ¿Puede triunfar el Socialismo del Siglo XXI?
Heinz Dieterich

Rebelión

1. ¿Qué es el socialismo venezolano?

"En Venezuela no habrá comunismo" dice categórico el nuevo Ministro de Defensa venezolano, almirante Orlando Maniglia, recientemente nombrado por el Presidente Hugo Chávez. "La constitución es muy clara, dice que somos un país democrático, con libertad de expresión, con derecho a la propiedad, muchas cosas que en el modelo comunista no existen."

"¿Es socialista o capitalista la nueva ley sobre el Banco Central?", le pregunta el moderador televisivo al diputado Rodrigo Cabezas. Después de un momento de reflexión, el coautor de la nueva normativa contesta: "Es socialista." Si esta ley es socialista, pienso, entonces Alan Greenspan también lo es, porque la política del Federal Reserve Board es precisamente lo que contempla hacer la nueva ley.

Al recibir la Presidencia pro tempore de la Comunidad Andina de Naciones (CAN), en Lima, el Presidente Chávez define, que la revolución es "nacionalista, bolivariana y cristiana". Mucha gente piensa que "ya estamos en el socialismo". Sin embargo, el Presidente dice que vamos "hacia el socialismo", lo que implica que todavía no estamos allí. Asimismo sostiene que Bolívar y Jesús serían socialistas en la Venezuela actual y que el socialismo venezolano es socialismo porque prioriza al ser humano, en lugar del capital.

Que nadie piense que estemos "improvisando la transición hacia el socialismo; cada paso está planeado y pensado" precisa el Mandatario en su programa "Aló Presidente" y como prueba muestra su cuaderno de trabajo, en el cual hay esquemas sobre las diferentes etapas de la transición hasta la fase final, la "sociedad global postcapitalista".

El exComandante guerrillero Douglas Bravo, no coincide con el Presidente. Juzga en el diario "El Nacional", que "Aquí no se ha producido la revolución que muchos sectores aspiraban, sino la mayor transformación de la historia a favor del imperio y de la burguesía" y que, "Chávez, desde luego, es el gran neoliberal". Otro exguerrillero, Teodoro Petkoff, dice públicamente que Chávez va hacia un "socialismo militarizado".

El vicepresidente José Vicente Rangel afirma en La Habana que "vamos a pasar de la democracia bolivariana a la democracia socialista, al socialismo del siglo XXI, con nuestros propios recursos, sin manuales, soberanamente, a partir de nuestras realidades, sin mesianismos de ninguna especie, sin voluntarismos". Una proposición muy positiva aunque, como es obvio, ningún socialismo del Siglo XXI se puede realizar sin un fuerte ingrediente de las aportaciones de la cultura mundial, particularmente la ciencia.

Roy Chadderton, exCanciller del gobierno bolivariano, quien procede del partido de la oligarquía socialcristiana (COPEI), abraza el socialismo del siglo XXI porque "no tiene que ver con el socialismo trasnochado y antidemocrático" del pasado. "Cuando veo a mi Presidente hablando de la democracia participativa y del compromiso con los pobres", estoy de acuerdo, porque todo esto "se basa en la doctrina social de la iglesia": hay un mensaje "profundamente cristiano donde prevalece lo social".

2. Los Grados de Libertad de la Revolución Bolivariana

Las citas evidencian que existe una enorme fragmentación en la comprensión del concepto "socialismo del siglo XXI" que según la intención del Presidente sería el vehículo teórico estratégico para llevar la Revolución Bolivariana hacia la sociedad poscapitalista. Esta fragmentación resulta de varios hechos, entre ellos: a) de la ausencia de una vanguardia nacional y de un estrato de cuadros medios, capaces de explicar a las clases sociales lo que es el socialismo del siglo XXI; b) la distorsión premeditada de la discusión por parte de intelectuales oligárquicos y, también, de sectores antisocialistas y antibolivarianos dentro y fuera del "Chavismo"; c) la falta de asimilación del único paradigma científico existente del Socialismo del Siglo XXI, elaborado por las Escuelas de Bremen y de Escocia, que resulta en un nivel precientífico de comprensión de los grados de libertad -las posibilidades de evolución- de la Revolución Bolivariana.

Tal fragmentación ideológica, por incomprensión o manipulación antirrevolucionaria, imposibilita la formación de un bloque histórico de poder, unificado por un mismo proyecto de liberación, que pueda servir de sostén defensivo y ofensivo al Presidente, capaz de derrotar las múltiples amenazas a la revolución, desde fuera y, también, desde adentro, donde la falange violenta y la nueva clase política -"los hijos de Miquelena" como la llaman algunos revolucionarios- pretender destruir a Chávez y su Revolución.

3. El carácter de clase de la Revolución

La Revolución venezolana necesita, por tanto, de un Sistema de Posicionamiento Global (GPS) teórico que defina con exactitud, hasta dónde ha avanzado y cuál es el camino que le queda por recorrer. Ese GPS teórico solo puede ser la ciencia contemporánea. Y a la luz de esta ciencia, las coordenadas socio-económicas y políticas de la Revolución Bolivariana se pueden determinar sin mayor problema.

Si la Revolución soviética se destacaba por una dualidad de procesos, la revolución burguesa y la socialista, la venezolana consta de una dimensión más: es trifacética. Coexisten, en ella, al mismo tiempo, una revolución anticolonial (contra la Doctrina Monroe), una revolución democrática burguesa y los gérmenes de una revolución socialista. El peso de la política de Chávez descansa sobre las primeras dos columnas, la tercera es apenas incipiente. Esta ponderación se debe a una razón fundamental: es imposible construir el socialismo, sin haber avanzado en las primeras dos dimensiones.

El carácter anticolonial de la revolución es evidente, tanto en las medidas bolivarianas como en el golpe militar de Washington. En cambio, la necesidad de avanzar más en la construcción del Estado de derecho y en el desarrollo de las fuerzas productivas, antes de pasar al cambio de las relaciones de producción de la economía de mercado, no es tan obvia, pese a hechos como el siguiente.

Durante el proceso bolivariano más de 130 líderes campesinos han sido asesinados, sin que un solo terrateniente haya sido condenado a la cárcel. Siendo el asesinato un delito que los fiscales deben investigar ex oficio, su negligencia en la persecución de esos asesinatos constituye en sí mismo un delito, que tendría que ser investigado por el Estado y castigado, mínimamente, con su destitución. Y nada de esto ha sucedido.

El paso hacia la economía socialista se da, a su vez, cuando: a) se sienten las bases para que sectores estratégicos de la economía comiencen a funcionar sobre la unidad operativa del valor (time inputs), descartándose de manera progresiva la unidad operativa del precio y, b) cuando haya una creciente participación de los trabajadores en las decisiones micro y macroeconómicas.

El establecimiento de cooperativas, la cogestión, la regulación del mercado, el trueque y las empresas no-mercantiles, no significan, de por sí, que se esté construyendo una economía socialista. Las cooperativas, por ejemplo, son formas jurídicas de propiedad económica más democráticas que la Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable y la pequeña empresa privada ---y frecuentemente sirven como "salvavidas" económicas para trabajadores sin empleo o empresas quebradas--- pero ni ellas, ni la cogestión o el trueque modifican la lógica de la economía de mercado, ni la ley del valor que se expresan a través del principal mecanismo de expropiación de la riqueza social en beneficio de los empresarios, el precio.

En el sentido de la economía política de Marx es imposible hablar de una economía socialista, mientras no se haya sustituido la economía de mercado mediante una economía de equivalencias, basada en el valor y la planeación democrática de las mayorías. La economía de mercado es incompatible con la democracia real de las mayorías. Solo su abolición, después de una primera fase de coexistencia con la economía de equivalencias, garantiza la entrada al socialismo.

4. Delicados escenarios sobre sucesiones revolucionarios en América Latina

"¿Qué haremos en el 2013, cuando el Presidente Chávez ya no podrá ser Presidente?", me pregunta ante setecientos personas en la Universidad UNELLEZ en Guanare, un compañero bolivariano. "Y qué haremos, si en el 2006 el Presidente Chávez, por un problema de salud, un accidente o lo que sea, ya no podrá ejercer las funciones de la Presidencia?", contesto. Silencio en la sala.

Existe en mucha gente la falsa certeza de que el gran líder estará con ella hasta el 2013, porque ganará todas las elecciones respectivas. Modificándose la Constitución, podría inclusive estar más tiempo. Este es el escenario deseable y hay que trabajar para que así sea. Sin embargo, hay otros escenarios posibles, para los cuales los bolivarianos tienen que prepararse, en aras del realismo revolucionario y de la continuidad del proceso, ante las amenazas externas e internas.

1. Si Chávez dejara de ejecutar sus funciones como líder del proceso venezolano-latinoamericano ---por enfermedad, accidente o magnicidio--- el proyecto colapsa, sin duda alguna. No existe aun vanguardia a nivel de conducción, ni cuadros medios, ni unidad teórica-revolucionaria, ni líder sustituto en Venezuela que pudieran sostener el proceso. Es evidente que hay algunos jóvenes talentos y que, incluso los grandes estrategas latinoamericanos en el Caribe y en Tierra Firme tienen ideas claras sobre sus posibles sucesores, pero los delfines están aún en proceso de maduración subjetiva y objetiva.

2. Si Fidel deja de ejecutar las funciones de la Presidencia de Cuba en algún momento, ¿qué rumbo tomará el proyecto histórico de la Revolución Cubana? ¿Podría seguir la alianza estratégica con Venezuela? Y si no pudiera seguir, ¿sería posible que la Revolución Bolivariana se sostuviera en un solo país?

3. Si el escándalo de corrupción del Partido de los Trabajadores (PT) llegase a debilitar al partido y a Lula a tal grado, que tuviera que disminuir su apoyo a Chávez, para seguir conservando el apoyo de Washington y de los partidos que lo sostienen en el parlamento, ¿podría desarrollarse la Revolución Bolivariana? Es evidente que sin el apoyo de Brasil la hazaña libertadora se volvería muy difícil.

4. Lo mismo vale para Argentina. Néstor Kirchner está perdiendo la batalla contra el capital internacional, cediendo cada vez más espacios al capital español y al gobierno de Zapatero. En su batalla de retirada, con la derrota final anunciada ---por el simple hecho de que ningú;nn Estado nacional latinoamericano solo podría ganar esa batalla--- llegará al punto, en que Zapatero y el subimperialismo español lo van a entregar a Washington, sustituyéndolo por un neoliberal. Nuevamente, crearía una situación muy seria para el proyecto bolivariano.

28.7.2005

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=18445

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
PEAK OIL

(SELECTION, EXTRACTS)

A. Mike Ruppert wrote:

1. Dear Professor Lee:

Thank you so much for writing this article. Not so much because you have quoted me, but because you so clearly articulate the issues which eat at my heart daily. ...

... I am amazed at how synchronous our thought processes are. For decades, one of my favorite quotes from Shakespeare has been the one you just used. There is so little humility within our spiritually impoverished species, so little awareness. I will be using Hamlet soon in an upcoming article. ...

Again, my thanks and respect. <>Adelante!<>

Michael C. Ruppert
www.fromthewilderness.com

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2. -------- Original Message --------

Subject:	Re: Message from Michael Ruppert -- Thank You
Date:	Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:58:01 -0400
From:	Franz Lee <franzjutta@cantv.net>
To:	Mike Ruppert <mruppert@copvcia.com>
References:	<000f01c59259$26878f10$0200a8c0@BOSS>

Dear Michael,

thank you, in turn, for your kind words.
... Best regards & fraternal greetings,
as well as our sincere congratulations
for your outstanding work in the internet community,

Franz.
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B. Rod Coffman

1. -----Original Message-----
From: Administrator [mailto:admin@franzlee.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 11:08 AM
To: Rod Coffman
Subject: Peak Oil/If we do not wake up soon

Rod Coffman wrote:

Wow,
I've enjoyed reading your articles for a couple of years now and am very disappointed that you are buying into the capitalistic scam known as Peak Oil, certainly the world isn't at Peak Oil, but we've reached Peak D0llar.

Thanks,
Rod Coffman

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2. Dear Rod,

Thanks for your honest letter.
If you really read me well, you would have noticed that my problem is less Peak Oil, that may peak yomorrow or in a 1000 years if necessary. It is just a symptom of a cancerous disease.

My problem is Peak Imperialism, that is losing its life-energy! Threatening with Nuclear War.
Look at my VHeadline commentary of today.
Greetings,

Franz.

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3. Franz,

Thanks for taking the time to reply to my e-mail. From your latest article, "the transition towards Global Human Emancipation;" is certainly a thousand year journey. Those looking back from a thousand years from now will certainly wonder how the Imperial Coin held such sway over humanity that it does today.

Fortunately for humanity; as you point out these "democratic and aristocratic slave-masters, feudal nobility and clergy, tyrants and dictators, capitalists and imperialists, "real, true, existing socialists" alias Stalinists and "Marxist-Leninists", local CIA lackeys and national Quislings, etc." have met up with the Stumbling Stone that was placed in their path by Cosmic forces beyond their control thousands of years ago.

The fear that our pseudo masters created with the stampede that 9-11 caused and the subsequent stampedes that they've tried to create with Bali, Beslan, Madrid and London are losing their effect. The herd may panic in fear and head in one direction as a single unit, but it wakes up and comes to its senses one at a time and waking up is where we find ourselves.

There are still many among humanity left to wake up, but overall the direction we are headed is one of peace. At a point not long into the future critical mass will be achieved and like a lightning strike change will occur. As you point out, these neocon/neobolsheviks that are today's flavor of tyranny will become a distant memory.

Take care and stand firm.

Rod Coffman

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4. Dear Rod,

Thanks for your reply, especially your original ideas that very much approximate my views.

Of course, we are not omniscient, cannot and must not know everything, knowing much is already very healthy, hence, it could be that some important information concerning a specific topic just bypasses us now and then.

Seriously, for scientific reasons, and to tell the truth, why did you write the following?:
I am "very disappointed that you are buying into the capitalistic scam known as Peak Oil"

Kindly give me a serious, detailed explanation, with some basic facts.

Best Regards,

Franz.

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5. Franz,

I'll put some articles together for you, I'm at a bit of a disadvantage at the moment. I do some of the editing at iraq-war.ru/mirror-world.ru and the

search feature is down.

Oil has become money there is no question about that, the best way to charge more for something then you have a right to is to have

people believe in scarcity. There is no scarcity of oil, but we seem to have run out of real money.

I might need a couple of days to find the articles I think you'd be interested in. The most important thing to remember is we are

all as important as the Sparrow, and God provides everything for the Sparrow, just like He provides for all of us.

Thanks,

Rod

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C. J N von Glahn wrote:

1. Dear Professor Lee,

<>
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/072705_world_stories.
shtml#2

An excellent hard hitting, to the point analysis, of our so called morally and ethically superior Western Democracies, hijacked by what has turned into a criminal treasonous elite, panicking today in recognition of the day of reckoning, where they realise their malignant cancerous behaviour on the host body, will kill the host body and therefore also kill themselves.

Unless those in the host body, who have not been drugged with lies, propaganda, deceptions and Hollywood style make believe poisonous trash, stand up and attack this criminal treasonous elite, who control global destiny, mankind as we know it today is doomed to different geographical levels of extinction.

I send herewith an e-mail dated 27/07/2005 to Mike Ruppert with copy to Dr Paul Craig Roberts.

Yours sincerely,

J N von Glahn.

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Subj: THE FED & ITS OWNERSHIP, PEAK OIL & G8 GLOBAL ENERGY POLICIES ARE ALL LINKED
Date: 27/07/2005 10:43:19 GMT Standard Time
From: JNVGSHEG
To: mruppert@copvcia.com
CC: pcr3@mac.com
File: FEDERAL RESERVE.ZIP (52649 bytes) DL Time (376640 bps): < 1 minute
Dear Mike,

Some of the complex reasons why current global geopolitics are spinning out of control and gravitating towards war, is directly related to the ownership of the US Federal Reserve, the inexorable realities of global peak oil production with shortly thereafter global peak natural gas production and G8 global energy policies, including annexation by force of remaining global oil & gas reserves, together with G8 refusal to implement a Global Marshall Plan for renewable energies, to mitigate where possible the consequences of global peak oil & gas production.

It strikes me FTW should bring into its regular reporting the consequences of current Federal Reserve ownership and the need for a Global Marshall Plan for the implementation of renewable energies, in addition to the excellent news coverage & analysis it already gives.

Regards

Nick von Glahn.

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2.-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	Re: Workers of the world at its peak... for whom does the oil bell toll?
Date:	Tue, 02 Aug 2005 14:41:58 -0400
From:	Franz Lee <franzjutta@cantv.net>
To:	JNVGSHEG@aol.com
References:	<8b.2c29c181.3019e924@aol.com>

Dear J N von Glahn,

Thanks for the revolutionary flowers, I got many emancipatory bouquets from all over, but yours really fascinates me, because of its beautiful red coloring,

Let us keep up the fight for humanity!
Greetings,

Franz.

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-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	your article on From the Wilderness/question
Date:	Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:16:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Leigh McKeirnan <lmckeirnan@yahoo.com>
To:	franzjutta@cantv.net

I live 39 miles north of Portland Oregon in Washington state near the Columbia and nuclear plants that are defunct except for the rods. My kids live in or near Portland and work there now after graduating. MY home was in a slide area and devalued 11 years and ths is the first year I can sell it and move, although we have lived here 29 years. I am trying to decide what to do and where it is safe to go-my husband is from scotland and never gave up his British citizenship. I was thinking of selling my home and putting the money in gold or part of it and then either buying some land in a smaller country town around here or buying some property in British Columbia or higher up Vancouver Island. Do you have any advice please...places to avoid...best thoughts...what woudl you do yourself if you were me.?? Also should I build or buy a small er place now or wait till the market collapses???Please help with advice thanks you Leigh Mckeirnan

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2. Dear Leigh,

Of all the reactions to my "Oil Peak" article, your problem is indeed concrete and immediate.

And yet, it directly concerns everything that we are discussing.

I would not sleep deep with old atomic rods right under my pillow; millions have no choice, not even the stardust in the Van Allen Belt was safe from US foreign, nazi aggression.

Sad to say, there are no "safe" places left in our solar system, even Mars, Jupiter and the Moon suffer and shiver under the megalomaniac, militarist blasts and yoke of progressive self-destruction, even comets fear the brutal impacts of Yankee homo homini lupus. Britain, Scotland, Canada, small and big towns, all cannot escape the Big Brother reach of the 15 CIA, of the US Patriot Acts, of Britain's Terrorism Acts, etc.

Generally, one is safe exactly there where one lives, there where one finds oneself.

At least, for a while, one can survive in one's own bunker, with a copper helmet around one's seat of wisdom, with cold sweat running down our brows and cheeks, with awe-stricken, icy chills running down our strained spine; all these being our only arms directed against the electro-magnetic onslaught of HAARP; for some seconds, at least, we will feel safe, will be out of reach of the war experiments of ABCDE ... Z WMDs, of bird flu, ebola, MAD cow disease, AIDS, depleted uranium bullets, the mother of all bombs, shock and awe, Vargas floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, atomic bombs, etc. Also, for a while, no innocent "human bombers" -- daily secretly implanted with US time-bombs in their luggage -- would blow our loved, beloved families, our innocent, little children in Madrid, London, Baghdad or Teheran to blazes, to pieces.

Worst of all, like during the Great Depression of 1929, in the "Four Seasons", any moment a coffee could cost a million US $: in any case, money is just a fake relation. About 20 years ago, we paid Bs 4.30 for a US$, today we need Bs 2000 for this miserable "In God We Trust" in agony. It will make no difference whether you sell your house or not. Big Brother, Capital, the Dollar, makes the transactions, values, evaluates, devaluates.

If I were you, I would just buy a Bolivarian Constitution, study Chávez laws, plans, missions and projects, learn how to take a strong Gorbachov with Molotov, then take a Cuban Bloody Mary on the Rocks, pack your rucksack, and off you go to Caracas, to help to defend the liberatory efforts of 24 million poor people, fighting to save themselves from North American coming global fascism. Of course, you could at first exercise right there how to do the do, in the ghettos, in Harlem, Spanish Harlem, in Watts, in Chinatown, on the Mexican Border, etc.

This is what I did all the time on three continents for over 45 years already, is what I am doing right here and now.

Fraternal regards,

Franz.

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3. Dear Franz,

That was very kind of you to respond. Actually I think that was one of the most interesting emails I have ever received. MY life has been quite boring and not very substantial or consequential or productive to others by comparison. Went to college, lived in London, design major in college there, got married, raised two kids(selfishly my favorite part), big volunteer mom, got logged out of the value of my home for 11 years, turned the city upside down, got a trustland behind us through the legislature to be saved. Got everyone to support a 1000 acre wildlife area behind us including wildife, Trust for Public Lands and 6+ legislators to put it through at no cost to our city and they won't do it -well they say they will work with Columbia Land Trust now as long a I am not involved. Found out Weyerhaeuser, who bankrolled eagleridge to log behind us is bankrolling them over many states, all sorts fo illegal logging with CT Corp, in Seattle, Waterfront Recreation, the US Forest Service and the mafi etc. Didn't do much in my life and have high blood pressure-but I have great kids.I just want them to be safe and happy-have given up on a lot else. Kind of selfish of me to ask such a minimal question.
Thanks
Leigh

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Latest

Published: Monday, August 01, 2005
Bylined to: Franz J.T. Lee

If we do not wake up soon, there will be no human dawn left for us

University of Los Andes (ULA) professor Franz J. T. Lee writes: Our VHeadline commentary on "Peak Oil" has caused intensive discussions here in Venezuela and elsewhere. Michael C. Ruppert also published this writing on his own website.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/072705_world_stories.shtml#2

However, a very interesting letter from Harry Minetree, a VHeadline reader, has inspired me to explain the following with regard to some aspects of the critical world situation.

Among other things, Harry Minetree writes: "Your 'oil peak' article is excellent -- truthfully informing and frightening as Hell. I wonder, though, your title implies that the solution to The Problem (or the most promising way to delay the Inevitable End) is an international, Communist revolution."
(MinetreeH@aol.com)

As the philosopher Hegel reminded us ... here on Earth, and elsewhere in our "Universe", formal logically and dialectically, in our closed, limited, finite system ... everything that comes into existence merits to pass away. This reality, we witness daily everywhere. That we do not like this flowing, everflowing, over-flowing Truth, that individually we do not want to perish completely, that is another story, but it is a reality to know, to live, to die, to transcend. The life of the very human species is currently at stake.

Hence, one day, sooner than later, when its life-energy has faded away, and progressively itself has become vile, senile and sterile, our current mode of production, capitalism, -- including everything that belongs to it, all its affirmations and negations, including its Negation Socialism, and its Negation of the Negation, Communism -- just like the sun, like the Milky Way, it is destined to perish, to fade into oblivion.

Yes, like so many of its helpless, hopeless victims, like so many unknown hundreds of millions of human beings, that were mercilessly murdered or driven into master-slave relations, this fascist world order ... in severe, infinite and eternal agony, like the past European colonial empires ... inexorably will also pass away; so did Nero, Caligula, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco, Salazar, Mobutu, Idi Amin, and so will vanish Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, etc.

The following scientific and philosophic reflections, free of counter-revolutionary practice and reformist ideology, in an epoch of threatening nuclear warfare, are of special significance in the formulation of a new praxis and theory for the Bolivarian Revolution here in Venezuela.

Because of previous, historic, unbearable situations, caused by perverse natural-social relations, by unilateral, formal logical exploitative and dominating non-relations towards Nature, Man, Society, the "Crown of Creation" launched Work, Labor, that eventually led to the current apocalyptic situation.

Internally, Man, Society, Ruling Man, by means of class relations, of thing-relations, began to destroy it/himself; to such an extent, that the organic composition of capital has become absurd, that currently, together with machines and computers, less than 2% of the total labor force produces the lion's share of goods on the world market, that are being traded between the metropolitan countries themselves. Africa practically has disappeared from the global economic map, excluding oil production, it participates perhaps only with 1%. By social order, by social decay, by human decadence, billions are condemned to an agonizing death, that began already in Afghanistan and Iraq, and which is now moving from Northern "Oceania" towards highly populated Eurasia.

Trying ideologically to portray a happy future, a happy end, that has nothing to do with intergalactic processes, many social utopias, positive and negative ones, some even electrically earthed, were fabricated: Plato's "Politeia", Augustine's "City of God", Bacon's "Nova Atlantis", the Biblical "Heaven", the Hindu "Nirvana", the indigenous "Happy Hunting Grounds", the French Revolutionary "Democracy", "Socialism and Communism" of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, "Capitalism alias Fascism" of Hitler, Mussolini and Bush, etc.

All tried to give succor and peace to the mind, spirit and soul of a species, that arrogantly denominated itself as the "Crown of Creation", as the "Highest Blossom of Nature", as the "Paragon of Animals". In reality, across the millennia, across the labor process, this "civilized" crown, this "Christian and Western" spearhead progressively has degenerated from homo sapiens sapiens into homo homini lupus, and therewith has pulled everybody and everything on earth into the epicenter of its capitalist boiling cauldron, into Peak Oil, into its imperialist Moloch.

Secondly, viewed from intergalactic, scientific cliffs and philosophic profundity, the above reflections have nothing to do with ruling, class, ethical, mind and thought controlling systems, with products of man-made, transhistoric labor processes, especially not with bicameral norms or binary morals, that is, with bourgeois, capitalist liberty, equality, fraternity, with good or evil, with right or wrong, with god or devil, with life or death, with heaven or hell, with peace or war, with democracy or terrorism.

The current threatening Armageddon, of which very few people are really conscious, that what happened lately in Madrid and London, that which threatens Venezuela permanently, is simply the result of the egoism, vice, avarice of elitesque, powerful, power-drunk, parasitic, opulent, ruling class gangsters, who recklessly have used and abused social and natural forces, have produced mortal, fatal and lethal arms of mass destruction, and long ago have set loose a gigantic, global chain reaction of self-annihilation, nuclear roasting of human life, ravenous planetary destruction, that the rulers themselves cannot stop, cannot control anymore.

Ever since Sodom and Gomorra, since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this imminent danger of self-destruction was already haunting planet earth.

If we do not wake up soon, there will be no human dawn left for us anymore!.

Practically, within the wink of an eye, within only 150 of some six billion years of intergalactic earthly revolution, the bourgeois, capitalist, democratic revolution, transhistorically driven forward by various global ruling classes -- democratic and aristocratic slave-masters, feudal nobility and clergy, tyrants and dictators, capitalists and imperialists, "real, true, existing socialists" alias Stalinists and "Marxist-Leninists", local CIA lackeys and national Quislings, etc. -- all, were and still are engaged in total destruction of life on Planet Earth, and therewith of human life itself.

Peak Oil and the overt and covert United States Plans of Armed Intervention in Venezuela are part and parcel of this global conflagration.

This world tragedy does not allow any "attempt to negotiate an international compromise in the ultimate self interest of Life on Earth". Surely, there exist "enough reasonable people with both power and foresight to earnestly consider the notion of peace as a hopeful alternative." (Harry Minetree.)

Generally, to relish such excellent human, humane and humanist fruits like reconciliation, truth committees, dialogues, prayers, gentlemen agreements and peace talks is really fine, however ... in raging world entropy, in devastating global class war, in which historically no ruling class ever has stepped down peacefully from its throne, in bare-faced global competition for hegemony, fired on with gas and oil, more precisely, in the life and death struggle of the dollar versus the euro ... in reality, that is, in realpolitik, such ideological, nonviolent, pacifist, Gandhist delicatessen simply loses all its revolutionary savor and emancipatory flavor; the Yankee army boot steps on our bloody faces, and the true interests of the survival of humanity are left outside in the cold.

Summing up, as stated before, firstly, we cannot stop natural, social, historic, planetary, galactic processes that do not obey the exploiting rules and dominating laws of human egoism, arrogance and megalomania, of unilateral satisfaction of exclusive human class needs by means of the globalized labor process.

Secondly, we can invent as many fantasies, phantoms, phantasmagorias and chimeras, including angels and demons, as we please, we can resuscitate all kinds of gods and devils, all sorts of ethical values and ruling class ideological morality, but they do not necessarily reflect or even portray micro-, meso- or macrocosmic realities and creations. Any invention, any experiment, can fail, can produce disastrous results, can blow the very planet to blazes.

Bolivarians, for our survival against Yankee fascism, against world imperialism, not only our revolutionary ideas and thoughts must approximate Venezuelan and international concrete reality, much more important is that global, objective reality itself must move towards our collective, conscious thoughts, towards our emancipatory theory, towards our philosophy of creative exodus.

Now, finally, concerning Harry Minetree's healthy "wondering", about our "international, Communist revolution":

"I wonder, though, your title implies that the solution to The Problem (or the most promising way to delay the Inevitable End) is an international, Communist revolution."

A careful study of all my previous commentaries will reveal that I never use the concept "Communism" as global panacea to avoid human apocalypse. The term "Socialism" I use as the internal dialectical Negation of Capitalism, of the French Revolution, that currently is globalizing itself completely. Also, the very concept "Revolution" I consider it to be a bourgeois, capitalist, democratic invention and an excellent ruling class weapon, that has to be surpassed by Human Creation and Creativity, not by reformist Human Labor, not by Human Production, that, in any case, have caused the current disaster.

As Bolivarians, as Liberators, we have to make, think, find the means of human transvolutionary Emancipation, the liberatory energy and power to cross the Rubicon, the Exodus out of all modes of bicameral, binary production, out of all formal logical and dialectical systemic, productive realities and relations. We have to emancipate ourselves of our current exploited status as "workers" and "laborers"; we have to surpass, to excel as self-creators and auto-emancipators, progressively, forever, to eliminate the very words "workers" and "laborers" from our revolutionary vocabulary, and to replace them with Creators, Emancipators.

A worker, whose labor force is bought by the capitalist, is forced to have a unilateral, perverse non-relation towards Nature, hence, by separating her/his acts from her/his thoughts, s/he loses her/his creativity; the boss or master thinks and gives orders, like a slave the laborer obeys, reacts. This unilateral non-relation differentiates work from creation, labor from creativity.

Hence, in our opinion, the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, the attempts to realize a "New Socialism" (Chávez), have to be seen as a "praxico-theoretical" transition towards Global Human Emancipation.

Only in this scientific and philosophic sense, we support any "international, Communist revolution".

With reference to saving the planet, or the human race, we are not prophets or messiahs. Already just depending on our own acts and thoughts, many things could and can happen around us. Already Shakespeare's Hamlet knew that there are more things in Heaven and on Earth than those things that are dreamt of in our limited philosophy. Also, as I stated in a previous commentary, the "Polynesian Syndrome" blocks our transhistoric, social consciousness about the true state of affairs on planet earth, of what can still be done, can be thought, can be excelled.
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The bottom line: Wo/man, in limited spatial parameters and temporal chains, was born on earth as one of the weakest species; in fact, it seems that it was a kind of tragic miscarriage. Compared to other "hominid" species, s/he was born yesterday, and is already condemned to perish today. However, in spite of all its weaknesses and disadvantages, this species has developed a nearly omnipotent weapon: thinking, thought, theory, philosophy.

In the first place, this had nothing to do with spirits, souls, soma sema, anamnesis, amnesia or even guardian angels. Together with its natural part, with acting, doing, praxis and science, the human species practically could become nearly invincible. However, as explained before, while Ruling Class Man cannibalistically was devouring labor manna, and voraciously was drinking labor nectar, every Sunday morning, in church "les miserables" and their humble priests hungrily were swallowing the meager body and blood of Jesus Christ; in reality, secretly, Big Brother had already transubstantiated mankind's sacred arms, its mind and thoughts, its intellect, into dangerous weapons of mass self-destruction.

Thus, Venezuela and the World, our brains, our acts and thoughts, our Praxis and Theory are the only weapons that urgently could still save us from ourselves, from total annihilation, from Big Brother, and which still could guide us towards transcendental Emancipation!

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