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Carrol Cox: This is interesting for the explanation by Chavez in the final paragraph of the change in his perspective since he first came into office.
)))) According to Martin, Chavez stated on Hello President that when first elected he was hoping to create "a third way, capitalism with a human face, trying to give the monster a mask". But he concluded: "this mask has fallen to the floor shattered by reality".
^^^^^ CB: The revolutionist aims to struggle for reforms in a revolutionary manner, i.e. such that masses experience the inevitable failure of reforms in a way that they see that only more fundamental, revolutionary changes, changes beyond reforms , are necessary to achieve what they want.