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from a dispatch by Felipe Stuart on the first extraordinary congress of the PSUV: >Chavez called for the launching of the Fifth >International. He had taken some time to explain >the history of the First, Second, and Third Internationals. >His call was not ex abrupt. It was a serious proposal, >and he ended the speech with a series of chants, including >"Long Live the Fifth International!" It appears that Chavez is also acquainted with the Fourth International(s) too or else he would not have claimed the number five. Are there any Fifth Internationalists on the list? Does this mean that all those cool hammer and sickle designs with the number four are now obsolete? Is Stuart's later mocking of "...the self-appointed vanguards and telephone-booth internationals" a specific reference to Trotskyism or a more general attack on the non-Bolivarian left? ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
