[L-I] Marta Harnecker: The Venezuelan Military

*****   The Venezuelan Military:
The Making of an Anomaly
Marta Harnecker

Led by Hugo Chávez, a former military officer, a "Bolivarian 
revolutionary process" has been underway in Venezuela since Chavez's 
election to the presidency in 1998. While genuine progressive changes 
have been made, and although Chavez has won the enmity of the 
country's rich and powerful, this "Bolivarian revolution" has been 
rejected by some on the left because it is headed by a military man 
and because the military has played a significant and prominent role 
in numerous state institutions and government plans. The reason for 
this rejection is the standard left wisdom that the military is an 
integral part of the bourgeois state's repressive machinery, imbued 
with a bourgeois ideology, and therefore incapable of playing a 
revolutionary role in a capitalist society.

<http://www.monthlyreview.org/>   *****

Unfortunately, the full text is unavailable online, but the abstract 
above leads me to believe that those of us who don't have MR 
subscription should visit a library that subscribes to MR.

Yoshie


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