[lbo-talk] NYT: Chavez loses, 51% to 49%; Chavez does concede on TV

[Steven L. Robinson]

Although I DO NOT AGREE with the badmouthing of Chavez, I think Doug is mistaken.  Going back to the American Revolution, there was no single paramount leader of the  relative stature we saw in revolutionary Cuba or China.  Even in the Bolshevik Revolution, the Stalin inspired Lenin cult notwithstanding, there was a real collective leadership in the party that went beyond Lenin or even Trotsky.  (Democratic Centralism and all that it implied, for good or ill). SR

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From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 


> 
> On Dec 3, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Charles Brown wrote: 
> 
> > No aya contradiciion in supporting Chavez as the main leader of the 
> > popular revolution. The popular revolution in Venezuela wouldn't have 
> > had the successes it has had without a popular and progressive leader. 
> 
> It's funny how this is one thing that anarchists and the ISO agree on 
> - Chavez, like Castro, is a power-mad despot, a classic Latin 
> caudillo. The authentic revolution would rise from the grassroots. 
> Problem is, there's really no precedent for that sort of thing. 
> 
> Doug 
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