Louis,
I am afraid that you are going from bad to worse! At least, your
first version credited Chavez with once wanting to build socialism. If
you want some evidence that he was far far away from moving away from
this notion toward the end of his life, I suggest that you look at the
document compiled from his 3-hour cabinet meeting on 20 October 2012:
Golpe de Timon
[http://www.aporrea.org/media/2012/12/golpe-de-timon.pdf]. It is only in
Spanish at this point [although Monthly Review may be considering an
English translation] but you read Spanish. In particular, pay attention
to his insistence there, 'Comuna o Nada'.
As for your 'fairly astute' source [Greg Grandin] on Chavez being
little more than a New Deal wannabe, I was there at the time of his
Nation article [October 2007] and shortly after was asked by Chavez to
be the adviser to the newly appointed minister of the economy. Very
simply, the article demonstrates massive ignorance; of course, having
the Nation tell its readers that Chavez was a good guy and 'one of us'
certainly would have been welcomed in Miraflores.
michael
On 10/6/2014 1:37 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
On 10/6/14 3:57 PM, michael a. lebowitz via Marxism wrote:
Louis wrote:.
'Keep in mind that toward the end of his life, Chavez had moved away
from the notion of building socialism entirely. His model was less and
less based on what are commonly referred to as "communist" states but
Western European social democracies....'
Your evidence?
michael
I probably should have written something more along the lines that
Hugo Chavez never aspired to much more than a New Deal, which would
have been reason enough to support him in a time when austerity is the
norm. This piece by Greg Grandin is fairly astute:
http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2673
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