By Marce Cameron

[The following is a contribution to the DSP's internal discussion on Venezuela's revolution.]

Comrade Stuart Munckton’s discussion contribution “Venezuela’s battle in the countryside and the ‘revolution within the revolution’” (The Activist Volume 16, No. 8) takes up the important question of the class nature of the Venezuelan state.

By Doug Lorimer

"Capitalism and imperialism can be overthrown only by economic revolution. They cannot be overthrown by democratic transformations, even the most `ideal'. But a proletariat not schooled in the struggle for democracy is incapable of performing an economic revolution. Capitalism cannot be vanquished without taking over the banks, without repealing private ownership of the means of production.

By Phil Hearse

"The International of Crime and Treason [i.e., the counter-revolutionary co-ordination of imperialism - PH] has in fact been organised. On the other hand, the indigenous bourgeoisies have lost all their capacity to oppose imperialism -- if they ever had it -- and they have become the last card in the pack. There are no other alternatives: either a socialist revolution or a make-believe revolution." -- Ernesto Che Guevara, Message to the Tricontinental 1967. (my emphasis)

By Doug Lorimer

By Phil Hearse