[lbo-talk] Chavez's socialist world vision

[Fernando Cassia]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara
<bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote:
> the goal of socialists is to form an opposition movement *outside
> of government* in order to build toward majoritarian support.  This means
> rejecting Luxemburgist "mass strike" schemes, the Trotskyist "transitional
> program" to the left and social democratic coalitionist strategists to the
> right, which are all basically "get rich quick schemes."

"In the long run, we´re all dead" - John Maynard Keynes.

Get rich quick schemes?. While you guys fantasize whch reaching
"critical mass" and bring the revolution (in what? 200, 300 years?),
some countries are attempting 21st century socialism, ie, Venezuela,
Ecuador, Bolivia...

FC