Venezuela is the most democratic nation of this world. Read this article about the meaning of 21st Century socialism in Venezuela:
VHeadline commentarist Carlos M. Pietri writes: Oil Wars Blogspot's article If that's the case is "participatory democracy" really anything meaningful? seeks to convey to us that participatory democracy is just a bunch of theoretical mumbo-jumbo just because President Chavez did not consult the people before taking an executive decision related to an energy saving strategy here in Venezuela.
I won't try to defend the Chavez decision in this regard but, please, only imagine if he referred every single thing he must decide to the Venezuelan people's consultation.
Personally, I believe that we elected him to take decisions
My intention, here, is to share with you some concepts on: Democracy, Dictatorship and Socialism.
Representative Democracy: The Bourgeoisie fiction
In the bourgeois states, the only democratic participation that the citizen has is at certain intervals to choose candidates for the Presidency and/or Parliament ... this is about as far as democracy gets us if we talk about our rights, since we're up to our necks in 'obligations.'
Elections take on a spontaneous face and fiction at the same time ... they seem spontaneous when candidates are presented from the body of society as an authentic expression of most people's interests and as fiction when offering as solutions to problems
The myth of advancement is where candidates represent the dominant class and strictly obey their interests and so advancement is nothing more than a change of appearance since the practice of bourgeois politics -- independently of candidate or government -- will always respond to the interests of capital and the bourgeoisie.
Dictatorship: An unmasked bourgeoisie government.
A practical description of Dictatorship is the imposition of economic, political and ideological conditions of one class on the rest of the society using State resources. It doesn't matter the regime's appearance -- Military, Monarchist or Parliamentarian -- the conditions of development and mobilization within society will define the form; but it will always remain an economic and political imposition. A dictatorship will be more cruel if movements exists within society that look to modify existing conditions or more benign if the movements are reduced and integrated into domination.
In other words, dictatorship is the other face of the same currency of bourgeois operation and domination. If domination is effective, representative democracy is the form that it adopts ... if on the contrary, capital and the bourgeoisie see their interests affected, the benevolent face is removed and the capitalist operation and domination is exerted with crudity through dictatorship.
Capitalism, dictatorship and representative democracy are the practical expression of class domination over workers exploitation to maintain economic conditions intact.
Participatory Democracy: Socialism, government of the majority
We say that the State is a machine in the service of a class. Within Capitalism it serves to suppress and create the most favorable conditions for exploitation, however when workers transform the State into a true participative democracy it us empowered by the people.
In the socialist scenario, the State is transformed into a social state where the preeminence of its performance is centered on the resolution of problems inherited from the old regime, instead to take care of the human being, in its material and spiritual development.
In Venezuela, our Bolivarian process began with the repayment of IV Republic social debts and with the incorporation of the population to benefits generated from industries administrated by the State.
The exercise of government is directly transferred from the political elites to the people who exert it for the benefit of all of the population. Democracy, at this stage of development in the Bolivarian process, is acquiring a more general and true character ... not only where election is recognized as a right, but where we now can decide on the revocation of elected officials who do not suitably respond to the people's necessities.
Participatory Democracy (Socialism) is demonstrated when people begin to take on their own projects, financial and material resources to attend to problems in our communities and communes, granting decisive capacity in things such as the approval and reform of our constitution; popular consultations on the elaboration of the National Police Law; recognition of our Magna Carta of popular power through diverse organizations constituted to take care of different problems inherited from the old way of State administration.
Socialism is true participatory democracy because it incorporates the workers … who really are the majority … in government and social control, which directly aims to eradicate the inherent vices of the capitalism. The decision to appoint, reelect or to revoke an elected representative for public position is the essential condition of true democracy.
Only the majority can (and must) resolve the conduct of the country, its resources and social relations and of production that must reside within our society.
Since the majority … the working class … must define if the revolutionary project begun in Venezuela will continue or not, re-election means socialism, participative democracy.
A greater degree of decision and consultation has never been seen before within our mother country…
We will not allow the bourgeoisie to take it away from us…
Carlos M. Pietricarlos@vheadline.com
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