The approval of an anti-fascist law in Venezuela, which bans political movements and the adversaries of despot Nicolás Maduro from their rights to be elected, disqualifying them, can only be understood, at first glance, as an anti-Corinas law.
Maduro – Carlos Malamud says it well, whose opinion on our “immature” democracy I endorse – has been left alone and naked. He can barely continue in the arbitrary exercise of the power that he has kidnapped to sustain himself. He is not willing to face the Venezuelans in free elections.
Even so, there are some considerations about this law, which pushes the country, here, towards the Nicaraguan drift. I mention, first of all, what the deputies members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) who have approved it omit. Nominally, they call themselves Marxists and invoke the legacy of Karl Marx 41 times from the pages of their Red Book and when adopting their statutes they proclaim their party “Bolivarian socialist” in a concoction that is difficult to unravel, as it brings together “the principles of scientific socialism.” , Christianity and liberation theology. And by being part of the Sao Paulo Forum, whose members claim to follow the socialist current of the 21st century, even if they are classified in the Puebla Group as “progressives”, in the end they are a totalitarian caricature that now tries to condemn its historical twin, the fascism.
Condemning and criminalizing it, but disfiguring it in the law as it has done with itself in its internal regulations, the “pesuvistas” omit that its parent source is Leninist-Stalinist Marxism, which murdered more than 1 million people for political reasons and others. 8 million were left to starve. This time, what they actually propose without looking in the mirror is to declare “moral conservatism” and “neoliberalism” crimes, not fascism. It’s the same thing the Nazis did with the Jews. Do you seek to put priests or rabbis, or those who practice private capitalism, in your prisons, I ask you?
Here, then, is a first clarification that, with a view to that damaged kaleidoscope of ideas that mobilize spirits contained in a law that falsifies notions and ideas such as those indicated, Piero Calamandrei makes us. He describes authentic fascism in his work on The regime of lies from a question that fits the Maduro regime: “Was it a revolution or was it not? It was, yes, and rather, a system where the “political lie” that is common to many regimes is, in this one, in the fascist one, “the normal and physiological instrument of the government,” he responds.
“Was it the equality of all before the law or, better, was a distinction introduced between those registered as fascists who enjoy all the rights and those not registered, who bear all the duties?” asks the distinguished Italian post-war teacher. : In fascism, a “political practice systematically contrary to the laws” develops, where what is written in them matters nothing, but what remains between the lines and has a different meaning, answers again.
So, the arbitrary use of the concepts of Marxism or fascism, both socialist and carried out by the so-called Bolivarian socialism by legislating against fascism or its “similar expressions” – so that nothing is left out of its sight. and despotic arbitrariness – is in no way consistent with the historical reality of Venezuela. Only ignorance can predict the existence among Venezuelans of some “racial superiority” among their people, except economic ones; Well, while ours is an integrally mixed society, made up of poor people who fight to rise, our few rich people have been so by chance and have not lasted more than one generation, and a good part of them were made under the palm tree of dictatorships. and soft dictations. The next has always stripped them of what they had badly earned and even what they had worked for. It is the constant.
The only one of colonial origin, of birth, heir to fortunes, is, among us, the surname Bolívar, descendant of the first businessman authorized to buy 3,000 slaves in Africa and bring them to the country, Simón de Bolívar the elder. The rest are the bakery’s children, like the Mirandas, or those who were simple dependents of the Guipuzcoana Company before it was expelled, declassed workers, but ultimately working men and women, nothing more.
The only pure race that has been formed over the past three decades is the elite of the “plugged in” and the court of the despotic regime which they serve with amoral obedience and in a line diametrically opposed to the predominant decency of the Venezuelan people. , who is innovative and does not humiliate him to work hard. Our emigrants know it.
What are we left with, then?
The condemnation and criminalization that is sought today, through a fascist law that claims to be anti-fascist and in which its lines predominate, I repeat, is that of those who, honoring the foundations of our nationality, adhere to the Judeo-Christian culture and are lovers of freedom. We Venezuelans are, in fact, morally conservative and now we are excluded by legislation, through apartheid, to send us to the dungeons.
Fascism is patriotic, it hates dissidents, it is militaristic, it demands obedience, it eliminates benefits from those who confront it, it does not respect human dignity, its columns are corruption and lies, it controls by promoting fear, it is not accountable and it looks to religion and culture as enemies to defeat. It is the essence of the anti-fascist law, a vulgar aporia.
I believe, despite this, that what rules in Venezuela is an illiterate despotism, since in Marxist and fascist totalitarianisms the State exists. Among us the republic disappeared and the nation as a basis was pulverized, replaced by “personalism, discretion, constitutional hypocrisy, violence, corruption, and nepotism,” Linz would say.
The entry Maduro imposes political apartheid was first published in EL NACIONAL.