Socialist Rage

Socialist Rage

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Since May 1^st is May Day in radical Marxist circles, I felt that it would be appropriate to check in on what President Chavez of Venezuela was up to considering he just announced that his government was seizing $30 billion dollars worth of formerly privatized oil resources and he was also withdrawing Venezuela from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

I have been studying the Marxist Chavez rise to power and like any other radical left-wing political ideologue of the 20^th Century, Hugo Chavez promises to provide western capitalist intellectuals with more lessons about the perversion of communism. The blame for Chavez’s absolute rise to power in Venezuela (or to the politically correct, the fundamental reasons why he was able to garner the willing compliance of Venezuelan citizens in their trading of democracy for a tyrant) is not only the socialist aspect of political influence and political power, but the failure of capitalism in the country.

In order for capitalism to function properly in a modern society, it must be moral. Corporations that do not watch over the health and welfare of their workers in order to maximize profitability to obscene levels are asking for the injection of what I term “socialist rage” in society. Just because a corporation is in business does not mean it is a purely capitalist venture because it may be a form of capitalism that is really just capitalism in name only.

If a corporation hires only part-time workers, provides them with no medical benefits, no retirement opportunities, no upward mobility, no job promotions because some corporations are specifically designed to prevent employee longevity so employees do not have a career and are expected to leave after a certain period of time—no future—then it can be expected for a Chavez to appear and to be popularly elected through deception to the highest levels of government. Robber-baron corporations were first encountered in the late 1800s and those enterprises were eventually regulated by government to provide for the basic health and welfare of employees. Notice too that Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto almost near the peak of the robber-baron corporate phase. The point that must be remembered here is that some corporations claiming to be operating under a capitalist agenda are instead operating under their own form of authoritarian corporate efficiency.

Free labor is always appealing to the corporation, but there is no such thing as free labor resources in the nation-state that is not perverse.

As a staunch capitalist and counterrevolutionary to any form of collectivism, if I can see deviations in transnational corporate operations, you just know our enemies in socialism can see them and are exploiting them. So it really is no wonder that Hugo Chavez’s promise of medical care for his citizens, a bag of groceries and five gallons of gasoline per week garnered him almost 70% of Venezuelan national vote in the last presidential election. The Venezuelan people were seeking their prince, and they found him in Hugo Chavez. He will bring the Venezuelan people nothing but tyranny and Marxist control reforms to the country, but in the absence of a properly functioning capitalist society, the people were willing to hand over their liberty to a tyrant in exchange for materialism.

As Chavez assumed absolute power in Venezuela with his recent “rule by decree” powers bestowed upon him by the Venezuelan legislature (mere puppets), the language of the Venezuelan leader shifted towards Marxism as well with his new motto: “Socialism or Death!”

Perhaps that was to counter Patrick Henry’s: “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

Regardless, Chavez will never allow another presidential election by popular vote in Venezuela for as long as he is alive. Democracy only benefited Chavez insofar as it provided the man with a mechanism to establish initial power in Venezuela, and with some clever Marxist psyops, he was able to get the Venezuelan people to hand over their democracy and liberty in exchange for an unfolding tyranny.

However, like other mortal pursuits of utopia, Chavez learned that it was far more expensive economically to pay on all of those promises that he made to the “people” in exchange for their liberty. So he decided that Venezuela should seize (steal) all of the oil facilities in his country through military force and coercion because oil is trading very high right now at almost $65 a barrel and that money will go a long way towards financing internal Venezuelan reforms as well as Chavez’s own Marxist revolutionary plans for Venezuela’s neighbors in the coming years.

For the Venezuelan people, it is a race to the bottom, the lowest common denominator. Marx explained very carefully in the Communist Manifesto how to destroy a capitalist society and transform it into a utopian-driven communist one. Now you won’t hear the leftist media talking about Hugo Chavez as a communist revolutionary but then that is not uncommon considering the media’s inability to see any enemy unless it walks around wearing a Swastika. The imbalance of political crime reporting for the 20^th Century gave communism a free pass. When the Berlin Wall fell I expected indictments to follow for communist-era war crimes and crimes against humanity, but alas, all for naught. Not one indictment of communism and its agents came forth, even though communism is responsible for 150,000,000 deaths in the 20^th Century, and certainly many more in the 21^st Century given its resurgence in countries like Venezuela.

What does it take to get citizens of humanity to understand that communism is a perverse and failed ideology best left, as Reagan explained, to the ash heap of history? Why were the Venezuelan people so willing to trade their democracy and liberty for a totalitarian police state that is now emerging under the direction of Hugo Chavez?

The fact is that we failed the Venezuelan people. We watched them struggle and claimed their capitalist democracy was in order, but it wasn’t. Transnational corporations with no loyalty to any country went into Venezuela looking for cheap labor, absent any investment in human capital. If capitalist workers do not see a future for themselves in some career because robber-baron corporations with no loyalty to any nation-state operate in the society that those workers reside, those workers will be approached by socialists and soon after you will witness national transformation through socialist rage as was seen in Venezuela. So the first step in recognizing why Chavez bubbled to the surface in Venezuela is admitting that capitalists failed the average Venezuelan because the transnational corporations that were operating in Venezuela were not even providing their workers an incentive to remain loyal to them.

The tenets of capitalism are really simple. A capitalist employee wants medical care, they want upward mobility, job security and above all else a living wage to support their families. If the capitalist employee is not able to acquire those objectives, the Marxist socialist revolutionary cell that exists in every capitalist society will be standing by sowing the seeds of discord and discontent.

Remarkably, in less than ten years we are witnessing a newly energized resurgence of Marxism in the western hemisphere. It began with Hugo Chavez, branched out with the election of the Marxist revolutionary Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and with leftist leaders in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico. In Mexico, leftist revolutionaries nearly seized the presidency of the country with 49.9% of the vote in the last election. Americans have no idea how close we came to seeing a Marxist state emerge in Mexico right on our southern border, and that threat is not diminished simply because of the results of the last Mexican presidential election. It is a strong indicator that the peoples of Central and South America are being deceived by the Chavez model and may be incapable of understanding that the state formation lobbied to them by leftist leaders is not the paradise that they are being promised.

In order to derail these plans, we need competent and moral corporations operating in those countries, not robber-baron corporations. Given the current trends if the socialist rage continues, we will see a reddening of the western hemisphere by 2025 that may lead the United States into a conflagration with its neighbors.

Christopher Farmer

MS, National Security

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