Today, in Venezuela, political control is maintained with violence

Today, in Venezuela, political control is maintained with violence /
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Posted on March 9, 2014

"The Party is immortal" was one of the first communist slogans. It was a
declaration of the Party's right to annihilate its "class enemies" and
to keep hold of power by means of a "dictatorship of the proletariat"
that would eradicate the "enemies of the people."

For decades, communists were murdered in every country they turned up
in. As a result, once they were in power for the first time in history,
from the upper echelons of Stalinism to the satellite nations of the
USSR, they began their revenge for all the crimes committed against
them. And continue today.

I am not anti-communist. As a Cuban, I have spent 40 years living in a
communist nation. Many of my friends and relatives are communists. I
probably could have been a communist myself during my teenage years,
perhaps through the apathy of belonging to the only legal political
youth organization in Cuba, even though by then nobody believed in
ideologies. We were professional impersonators, pretending to be
somebody else to survive.

The fact is, not a single communist government has ever respected anyone
who pretends to be "someone else." Both within and beyond international
borders, they have never demonstrated a single shred of diversity. Or
compassion. This is logical, since in totalitarian materialism there is
no other god but the State, incarnated in one Great Leader.

Now death is again laying waste to those who are youngest and most free.
It's happening in Venezuela, where the army is killing peaceful
protesters in the streets. And the response from the world's Communist
parties was unexpected: They have applauded, and all the more-so in
Latin America, the region where death is in charge.

In Chile, the Deputy and General Secretary of the Chilean Communist
Party, Lautaro Carmona, has even boasted of his own complicity: Nicolás
Maduro's Venezuelan executioners have been sent a message of solidarity.
The Venezuelan president is ruling under a law whereby he can be
re-elected time and again.

With this obituary note, Augusto Pinochet's Chilean crimes of the
twentieth century are being avenged with impunity today. Today the chant
"Long live death!" echoes the anti-communist slogan of genocidal Europe.

These are criminal coincidences, complicit comrade Lautaro.

FROM SAMPSONIA WAY MAGAZINE, published in English.

3 March 2014

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