[CHÁVEZ THE RADICAL] ‘What are Privatizations?’
Chávez recalls how the 80s and 90s governments were following the IMF playbook, especially in terms of the privatization of state assets.
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Chávez The Radical XVI: “I am an enemy of reformism” (English version)
There’s a saying, «If it hadn’t been for reformism the revolution would have triumphed on a world scale.» Historically, revolutions have had to confront not only powerful imperial powers, endogenous oligarchies, and the stateless bourgeoisie but also the reformism which inevitably develops within them. It begins asymptomatically but quickly metastasizes throughout the architecture of the…
Chávez The Radical XV: Crisis, the Historic Bloc, and Ideology (English version)
Although the current crisis in Venezuela is not, as is so often stated in the mainstream media, solely the result of corruption and mismanagement within the government, the administration of Nicolas Maduro has not managed to effectively communicate the nature of the “economic war” being waged by the traditional ruling class of the pre-Chávez Venezuela….
Chávez The Radical XIV: “We can’t convert everything we produce into merchandise” (English version)
Throughout the revolutionary period led by Comandante Chávez, the Venezuelan state managed to control an important part of the economy in the form of state property despite the hegemony of the bourgeoisie and its forms of private property over most of the Venezuelan economy. During the planning, management, and organization of the state controlled sectors,…