SCRAP POLICY / Diego Marquez Castro
Sunday, 09 August 2009
Twenty years ago, when there is no fear of men and their ideas, the leader of the Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, the Polish workers during a visit to Caracas, stated without any problems their vision about what was happening in the world of state socialism, both within the borders of the Soviet system and in the countries of Eastern Europe under the guidance of Communist Moscow. In one of his speeches he said following the lapidary phrase: "In Lenin we have missed a kick." This expression, as then comment the writer Arturo Uslar Pietri, was revealing of the repudiation of the Marxist-Leninist conception of politics and international relations.

In Lenin, emblematic icon of communism, which may be condensed system accounted for a few countries and societies in regard to the suppression of freedom. For that reason, Uslar not hesitate to affirm that this modality socialist, now increasingly aged, anachronistic and outdated time and history, "became the basis and the reason for a dictatorial political system and closed vertically," to which he added: "It was essentially an authoritarian system of regimentation and domination by a minority which postponed for the indefinite future political ideals advocated.

In this regard, the two decades that separate us from the fall of the Berlin Wall, ignominious monument to exclusion and intolerance, it should be noted a significant change between what life was like for companies subjugated by the Communists under any masked populistic name and what life is like at present, marked by a democratic political and social practice in those countries. This reality contrasts the Cuban case. After fifty years of communist rule, Cubans now face shortages of all types of personal as well as the basic diet, quality of life is deteriorating more and denied any political opening. Cuba, ruled by a gerontocracy clinging to power, is not and can not become political paradigm for anyone. It is worn by a yellow dash time. A "revolution" petrified, turned into scrap. A chivera "policy for neocomunistas.

But, paradoxically, is shown as a failure of statist socialism, considered by Winston Churchill as "the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, the preaching of envy", whose "inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery" we find that in America our Hispanic leaders and movements, wrapped by a "progressive" Sixty also overtaken by the dynamics of history, trying now to sell new versions of the revamped and made up "philosophy."

With over why Uslar warned about the teleological sense of nostalgia for a Soviet left, hidden in Venezuela and Latin American countries with masks movements, crisis support and institutional frames of social injustice, fought for access to the electoral State control. Unfortunately, very few or no one heard his call and now possibly regret. Venezuelan intellectuals warned Stalin against the backdrop of such movements and events and government leaders: "This system became a force jacket, where the possibility of freedom of thought and individual initiative came to disappear altogether." Such a situation two decades ago were thought not to recur, it sprout in our land where they can breathe and feel with increasing intensity a "oppression sterilizer, immiserizing and delaying."

We conclude with a very interesting thought that this was his time Venezuelan exception: "Latin America's political leaders continue to steadfastly adhere to this conception of political struggle, which has already ceased to have effect in developed countries. A body of concepts, a vocabulary has begun to be so ineffective and antihistórico as the Berlin Wall. It is not just a matter of semantics, but of social health and political efficacy. Are missing opportunities for progress, underdevelopment atándose on behalf of doctrines already outdated, deeply changed international realities, ideas definitely concerned. "

The speech "socialist" which is broadcast from Venezuela agrees well with that observed by the writer who with a wise vision of the future added: "It would have to think that nations in the region are going in a direction which is not the story universal. There is a risk that history might leave behind. It is unfortunate that thought and continue to keep a language that already belong to the past. " In sum, the ideas and rhetoric of socialism and endogenous part of the dustbin of history. They are simply junk policy, as the forgotten mummy of Lenin and Stalin.

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