Now, Hugo Chavez is the Master Teacher. The news
story said:
"CARACAS,
Venezuela
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Monday to close or
take over any private school that refuses to submit to the oversight of
his socialist government as it develops a new curriculum and textbooks.
"Society cannot allow the private sector to do whatever it wants," said
Chavez, speaking on the first day of classes."
Just an observation:
Hugo Chavez should stop calling himself "society." Not only is
that a laughably brazen usurpation of the public identity, to an
American it is just downright hilarious. A buffalo-headed red guy
who looks like bad Mayan sculpture as the supreme political
leader? Supreme Radio and Communications jock? Supreme
television personality?
And now Supreme educator and private school professor? Give
"society" a break.
How did this come to be? With limited interest, let's examine the
Bolivarian Circle Jerk.
At the time of this writing, on Wikipedia's conspicuously untalked
about page on "Bolivarian
Circles," we find this definition, which I have condensed for the
sake of Society:
"The Bolivarian Circles are a loosely-knit political and social
organization of workers' councils in Venezuela originally begun by
President Hugo Chávez in 2001 [...] named in honor of
Simón Bolívar. [...] most circles have
effectively disbanded [and now] the government sponsor[s] the Communal
Councils that are considered the base of the participatory democracy."
Nota bene: "The circles themselves were purportedly
decentralized, made autonomous [...] however, Chávez authorized
then-Vice President Diosdado Cabello to financially support them."
As distinct from Crop Circles, the deep reason and impetus for Bolivarian Circles:
[Bolivarians fix broken shit that the state can't, and] "before 2003
took part in various protests against the political opposition [...]
blocked the entrance of the newspaper office El Nacional [...] Numerous
journalist have been threatened, berated, and abused physically and
verbally, particularly by members of the Bolivarian Circles. [...they
also] became violent against the 2002 coup attempt."
In short, the US coup in Venezuela failed, and instead a local warthog
wrapped himself in a mob of violent and
angry protesters and proceeded to seize and annex everything in the
country in their name.
It's contagious. "Pro-Chávez Bolivarian circles [are also
in operation] in Europe, North America and Australia"
"Chávez swore all official Bolivarian Circles [more or less]
under the
following oath:"
I swear in
front of
you [Chávez], for [God, honor, motherland, soul to break] the
chains that oppress Venezuela [...] I will [mindlessly replicate]
bolivarian ideology [using] the
popular organization [including] the bolivarian circles in the
bolivarian web, in the bolivarian current, in the bolivarian forces and
in the
Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement [and to use the Bolivarian placemat
and eat the Bolivarian beefsteak] today is born again [...] by the will
of the Venezuelan people. I swear that I will fight [...] for the
defense of the
revolution, [...] sacrifice my life, for the glory of Venezuela. I
swear that we will consolidate forever the bolivarian revolution"
Brand name is everything. For inside this Venezuelan export
product is the usual crap, catered to a South American / post-Iberian
sensibility: Jesus, one's parents, oppression, and the Simon Bolivar
brand. The main emphasis is on obedience, replication, and sacrifice,
i.e. the Bolivarian Pyramid Scheme but circular, to appeal to females,
native-americans, and cycylical thinkers. I enjoy the peculiar
emphasis on "consolidation" which is a staple fetish of the
Schachtmanite neoconservative movement as well as King Ferdinand and
Queen Isabella, namely power and
institutional consolidation.
But this isn't your great granddad's New Spain. Bolivarian
Circles have their own "Youth," owing to precisely two reasons: 1) the
need of totalitarian regimes to have a Jugend, and 2) the punk rock
band sound of a name like "Bolivarian Youth." The second reason
is important to the predominantly white college students outside
Venezuela who identify with this term. Wikipedia proclaims:
"The
Bolivarian
Youth is a revolutionary anti-capitalist youth
[spinoff] with varying approaches towards democracy. [...] the
ideology differs between participatory democracy through to
Marxism-Leninism. The claimed purpose is to educate and mobilize
revolutionary minded young people. Just like the circles the Bolivarian
Youth movement is widespread in South and North America, Europe and
Australia. The Bolivarian Youth is usually born from local Bolivarian
Circles except in Colombia where they are mainly established and
managed by the FARC-EP."
Thus, Bolivarian Youth are mainly one or two oldsters and many campus
pinkos fresh out of high school forming a more perfect soviet union
where everyone is distinct and precious, and nobody is fastened with a
label that he
doesn't want. Bolivarian Circles (CBs) also have genuine Latinos
from Ohio, Wisconsin, and Boston. Alas, recently an entire field trip
class was a teacher and some kids from a Jewish school availing
themselves of the "teaching exchange program" which is a really a Bolivarian
Safari for
rich kids. All of these bastard communist stepsons of the teach-in
are an internet networked organization of distributed cells either
generated by or immediately placed in contact with the top drones of
the Venezuelan hive or Colombia's FARC.
FARC is of course, the Communist Party of Colombia which finances
itself by importing cocaine into the USA.
Normal people can
stop
reading the article .....now!
And for the rest of
you:
Any normal reader will at this point feel as if he has read all anyone
needs to in order to categorize "Bolivarian
Youth" organizations. Those with a mind for trivia, or with a
vested interest, waxwork fans, or information masochists should now quickly segue
to the description of "anti-capitalist" which is the new Wikipedia
approved weasel word for Communist and has its own non-stub Wikipedia
entry which also purports to be a definition of a broad phenomenon, but
which condenses into:
Socialism,
The Socialist portion of the programs of Social Democracy and National
Socialism,
Anarchism, specifically an end to social domination by replacing it
with the reactive and inverted social domination of Anarchists, and the
prohibition of various forms of society and socializing that scrubs find
offensive.
Owing to certain Biblical quotes, Anti-Capitalists also try to bring
Christianity and Islam under the umbrella as anti-capitalist Social
Gospel, but this of course can only be done as Unitarianism.
Predictably, the reference links for the entry on "anti-capitalism" go
to (Chuck Munson) Infoshop, (Dave Walters) Marxists.org, SPUSA, and
IWW. As none of you may recall, SPUSA's break with Schachtmanism
was that Max Schachtman deviated impermissibly from the Trotskyist
party line of Comintern, which is a shunning offense. Thus SPUSA
is accurately described as Trotskyist which means Communist, not
socialist, and this is seen in the totalitarian mentality in their
publications, listservs and websites. Only a tenured socialist
professor (like Marx Wartofsky) splits the hair of whether a Marxist is
a socialist or a Communist. One need only read The Communist Manifesto, which of
course was not titled "The Socialist
Manifesto" and does not vary distinctly from the party line of
Bolivarian Circles or of their members who are also members of other
organizations such as EZLN, IWW, or... Indymedia.
I joined the Boston Bolivarian Circle email list about a year ago to
collect information on the group. It is one
of many hostile organizations harbored by Riseup.net and cerebrally
conjoined with Indymedia. Naturally, my inbox is now spackled and
plastered daily with their obtuse raving bullshit. (Unlike my own
which is all placed here). Their mailings are usually in Spanish, which
though I have learned fluently, I am increasingly loath to
read. I just deleted a ton of their emails which are usually
samizdata instructing the Boston Bolivarians to wail
and moan in the direction instructed by the Venezuelan Bolivarian
Circles which are instructed by Hugo Chavez.
Some of their more pathetically amusing mailings include
rationalizations for and exhortation of local cells to
write exhortations for --the pyramid scheme of-- Chavez' legitimacy,
Chavez' latest seizure of radio or TV, Chavez' all points hate bulletin
against this or that political dissident, Chavez' seizure of the
schools, and Chavez' latest realizations, diary entries, and bowel
movements. They also write cargo cult odes and paeans to Citgo.
More about Boston's Bolivarian Circle:
The Boston Bolivarian Circle is formally called the CB-Martin Luther King, Jr. Boston, MA
(Nice abuse of the memory of Martin Luther King).
Website: http://www.bostonbolivarian.com/)
Email: vivabolivar@lists.riseup.net.
Meetings: Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Street, 5th floor, in Boston’s
Chinatown.
Members: BC MLK has about 40 affiliate members who are financially
outfitted for world travel on expensive socialist junkets. The
significant core of members are, in order of projected local
authority:
Jorge Marin
leader, webmaster, CB-Martin Luther
King, Jr. Boston, MA email:
cbmlkboston@hotmail.com
Simon Farabundo Rios
location,
Boston. Advertizes on Indymedia, email:
electrodread@hotmail.com
Raul Max
Indymedia
Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican Nationalist, location Mayaguez, PR, email:
Raulmax@aol.com
Dawn Gable
webmaster
www.cybercircle.org, steerer, Cuba Solidarity and
Venezuela Steering Committee location: SF Bay Area email:
cybercirculo@yahoo.com
Alvaro Sanchez
Miami Liason
in Bolivarian Exchange Program, location: Florida, email:
a2000@rocketmail.com
Williams Camacaro
listspammer,
location: NY email: bosanovanuevoyazul@yahoo.com
Canela Saenz
location: LA,
calls it "Bolivarian Socialism" email:
Angostura1819@aol.com
Francisco Rodriguez
Raul Reyes'
FARC remailer and mouthpiece, email: francisco@datalatin.com
Melina
A. Garcia
information
minister, email: magzul@hotmail.com
Yasmin
college
steerer, location: Minneapolis, email: Yasles@aol.com
Katrina Kozarek
syndicator of
consular demands, email: katrina@calleymedia.org
Bravo Pérez
email:
bravoperez1929@gmail.com
Paz Alegria
email:
wppm2003@yahoo.com (Beatriz Pestana.)
Carlos
CarlosRon@aol.com
Note their
travel
advertisement: "The volunteer's physical safety is guaranteed by the
local governments, and the
sectors can be considered relatively safe as there are thousands of
Cuban doctors already safely volunteering in
all of these impoverished places for months."
http://www.cybercircle.org/english/teach.html
Bolivarian sophisto, Melina Garcia has a better definition of the
Bolivarian Circle than Wikipedia:
"The Viva
Bolivar"
listserv is a tool/weapon/pedagogy aimed at facilitating a unification
of the diverse forces engaged in revolutionary action across our
pachamerican continent.
("Pachamama," the Quechua for mother Earth. "America," the colonial
label for the land from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.) Our fundamental
objective is the support, defense, and participation in the
pachamerican struggle for liberation, as we see it imperative to look
past national boundaries in our continent.
We recognize the commonality of the Venezuelan struggle with that of
the Uruguayans; the Bolivian fight for equality and the Haitian for
democracy; the Cuban march against imperialism with the El Salvadoran
battle against coercion; the Argentine front against neo-colonial trade
with that of the Mexicans. We stand fervently against the neoliberal
exploitation and militarization of our countries, our hemisphere, and
the world, and in solidarity with the indigenous, worker, and
conscientious human being of our planet."
As a fan of the Allstonian Quechua/Aymara band Fortaleza
and as a
Bachelor of Science in Latin American Politics, I declare the above to
be the most persuasive presentation of the aims and goals of Bolivarian
Circles. However, in the grand scheme of things it is not that persuasive.
Certainly "tool/weapon/pedagogies" are of interest to myself and anyone
wlse with a cursory education in linguistics, semiotics, teaching and
politics. But this is dashed by the assumption that operation of
a samizdat and a bunch of communist teach-ins are a tool/teaching
weapon worthy of the 21st century. They are just one of the myriad
misuses of the internet by lamers,
but not to be overlooked; as the phenomena of Amway and Scientology are
not to be overlooked.
In form, this particular political personality cult disguises Communism
as a Pan-American and Quechuan moral cosmology. In function, it
is merely a decapitated South American part of the Marxist
International with the stated goal of Extreme Aztlanianism, or the
belief that everything up to the Bering Strait should be annexed to a
Pan-Indian Communist empire. Reactive and situationist in nature,
Bolivarians maintain that this posture is the "fault" of the United
States. The disjunct in this reasoning is that such a posture hearkens
to Simon Bolivar's mulatto and mestizo rebellions against Spanish and
Dutch power. Thus its anti-imperial thesis is smudged by the
historical truth that South America and Latin America were ruled by
local native -albeit technologically inferior- copper age and stone age
empires long before America was founded. Sadly, the Bolivarian
Movement possesses all the tragedy and imitation of the centuries long
dismal quest of Germania to form a centralized empire the equivalent of
Rome's complete with bathtubs and philosophers.
I could entertain certain quality points which Melina Garcia does not
make, such as the conflict of interest in
the US Secretary of War invading Guatemala to protect his stock
interests in United Fruit, or Citibank's
annexation of the Bank of Haiti to execute colonial payments to
Germany, but these are mostly academic issues
which in real life have little value save for producing the
inflammatory rhetoric used in pamphlet pressing. If they did not
happen, then other injustices and outrages would have had to be
invented. Granted these particular injustices did occur, but Bolivarians also
consider maquiladoras to be injustices. They consider free speech,
commercial radio, private school, and the criticism by foreigners to be
injustices as well. Thus they are patently ridiculous.
In ridiculing there is belittling. Bolivarian Circles earn this,
but one should take care not to belittle them too much, as one does not
belittle the puncture wound, the breast lump, or the keyed car.
They can be successful despite having crazy beliefs. Having and
sharing crazy beliefs does not preclude one from creating a or running
a franchise or succeeding as a highly visible proponent of the
hive. See Mormonism or John Travolta.
Some political science end notes about Chavez:
Hugo Chavez is the typical latin american dictator in that he led a
military coup followed by a modernization plan. He got his
revenge on the radio stations that refused to play his prerecorded
tapes calling for massive civilian uprising. In a sense, he is
the consummate angry mix tape DJ. He originally failed to take
the country militarily. He was arrested and pardoned. He ran as a
revolutionary against a two party institutional duopoly. He is an
elected socialist who used his election as a mandate to impose the
revolution from the seat of power. His departure from world
economics is in abstract theory potentially in the interest of
Venezuelans, as long as they don't need pesky nuisances like rights or
their property.
The CIA failed in a (popular) coup against Chavez overseen by Iran
Contra and PNAC necon bum Elliot Abrams. Chavez publicly faked
his resignation
and re-revolutioned himself back into power. Chavez was opposed by 40%
of the electorate in the last two elections, and has taken measures to
destroy their liberties, media, and infrastructure. Similar to
George Dubya Bush, he ruled by decree for one year. In the US,
these are called "Emergency Executive powers," in Venezuela, they are
called "The Enabling Act." Whether filtered by the unfree media
feedback loop of the United States or broadcasted directly by the
Bolivarian Feedback Circle, Chavez represents what one of these
Subcommandante Marcos EZLN types does when
his "oppressed people" take power. They form alliances with Castro,
FARC, Ahmedinejad, Noam Chomsky and Joe
Kennedy II.
Chavez also makes the usual Communist jokes like offering free oil to
New Englanders in wintertime, and free houses to Hurricane Katrina
victims. Like Kanye West, his facile and media grabbing
criticisms are enjoyed and parroted by a few dedicated birdbrains
and passed off as college dissertations and lecture materials. In
the Bolivarian Circle, Hugo Chavez is Teacha.
________________________________
References: The Rutgers
Bolivarian Safari Reportback:
"We, the
delegation of young Jews from Rutgers, whose mommies and daddies paid a
few grand for us to go on a field trip to Communist Venezuela, do find
it a satisfactory location for the next Exodus. Fuck the USA! All we
found down there were happy naked people eating bananas and playing the
bongos. After meeting with the beloved
chieftain
who grows all the pot and visiting their nice shiny bank, we instantly
decided to join in the festivities
and
have interracial group sex to unplugged techno music. We joined in the
chant of 'all your national radio
station are
belong to us.' "
--At least
that's
what I read into this letter:
[vivabolivar] Traveling Rutgers
University Students Share their Views on developments in Venezuela
From:
Williams Camacaro <bosanovanuevoyazul@yahoo.com> Jun 6
"We, a
delegation of students from Rutgers, the State University of New
Jersey, were in
Caracas
this Saturday at a peaceful demonstration. Imagine a protest that was
more of a celebration than an angry mob. Imagine ordinary
citizens without ulterior agendas or motives celebrating the right to self-determination in the face of
economic imperialism. But, we don't have to imagine it because we were
there and that's what
we saw on Saturday June 2, 2007.
After meeting with the Venezuelan Minister of Agriculture and the
president of the
Agricultural Bank of Venezuela to learn about the progress of
President's Hugo Chavez
sweeping economic reforms, we decided to participate in the pro-Chavez
celebration to show solidarity with the people of Venezuela and their
defense of Chavez' decision to not renew Rctv's broadcasting license.
Traveling to Venezuela
the day before, we were flooded with messages of fear of the allegedly
unstable environment and distrust of the decision to cancel
the station. Yet, upon arrival we were warmly welcomed into a beautiful
city and felt none of
the animosity we were told to expect.
Many of you may have heard that Rctv was forcibly closed down by a
military dictator. However the station's license expired and the government
simply decided not to renew it. Over the course of Rctv's broadcast
history, it has been
used as a tool to incite violence, spread hatred, and promote
disinformation. This was not a violation of free
press
to silence the opposition; the public government simply reclaimed
public airwaves. This station had the strongest signal and the widest
bandwidth reaching the most viewers in the country. There are no other
comparable channels in
the country.
Participating in the march was an amazing experience for all of us. We
felt the
enthusiasm and unity of the crowd. The atmosphere was charged with
endless positive energy. People were dancing. Music was playing. There
were even fireworks. Everyone wanted to be there. The State Department urged
Americans to think twice before coming to Venezuela. We urge the State
Department to think
twice about their position on Venezuelan affairs."
Jason
Bellifemini Zenon
Tech-Czarny Jason
Yellen Marina
Yalon Tejas
Kadia Kyler
George Brendan
Kaplan Joseph
Smalley Johann
Rinkens Alex
Bannwart David
Brown
William
Kramer Adjunct
Professor & Researcher in Globalization and Labor Studies Rutgers
University Cell
732-589-8024 wkramer@access4less.net skype:
williamkramer PO Box
1445,
Highland Park, NJ 08904
