Chronicles in Socialism - Democracy ? We don't need no stinkin democracy. We are the law.

[maxparrish]

Venezuela's Maduro and his party cadre has reminded the opposition that it may have won the elections by a landslide, but the process of a showdown battles with the actual rulers of the country has just begun.

http://venezuelablog.tumblr.com/post/136116501284/conflict-of-powers-looms-as-venezuelas-new

The first shot started with an aborted judicial coup d'etat, exposed when the opposition MUD denounced the Chavezista plan to nullify the oppositions 22 seat majority via a writ from the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) to the Supremo de Justicia. The TSJ has denied that any petition has been delivered by their masters...yet.

None the less other threats mature. One of the biggest is that by the outgoing National Assembly President, Diosdado Cabello, who has promoted a parallel “National Communal Parliament,” which has been freely meeting in the Assembly chamber. President Maduro has endorsed the new "body" and declared there should be a “transfer all power to the Communal Parliament, which will be a grass-roots legislative instance.”

“The parliamentary group of the Fatherland needs to become a dynamic engine for the new phase of the Revolution, for the rectifications we need in our political style and discourse, and in our leadership in the streets,” Maduro told a group of elected PSUV deputies in a meeting at Miraflores palace.

For those alarmed by the Maduro's "communal parliament" bombast, the Chavezista legal "expert" Hernandez explained that the Communal Parliament is "suspicious of elected powers that are part of a “Bourgeois State” which should eventually be demolished by more “participatory and direct” forms of government."

Where have we heard of this idea before? Oh ya, it was called "the Soviet", aka the Petrograd Soviet that formed to challenge the Russian provisional government. The socialists elected their own representatives in their "communal parliament", and issued Petrograd Soviet's "Order No. 1" to the which said that party members (including the armed forces) should only obey the government only if their orders did not contradict the decrees of the Petrograd Soviet. Within several months, under the Bolsheviks, came the end of those "bourgeois state" troublemakers.

Gee, with a pedigree like that, what could go wrong?

The other real threat has been Maduro's order to 13 of his Supremeo justices to resign, prior to their term expiration, and the followup to appointment of new Judicial shills in a "special" session. As their terms would have expired in the middle of the next Assembly, Cabello smugly warned the opposition deputies about the future: “confrontation is inevitable and you know it. We will see under what terms and circumstances we have that confrontation.”

Well, well, well...the bloom is off the rose. Elections are a frivolous distraction, Maduro and his allies are sending a message: we rule and we will decide what is law.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

That's somewhat of a biased analysis, though. I'm sure that the only reason that they're taking this position is because they lost the election. Had they won it, they would have all about how great the elected powers of the bourgeois state are and they wouldn't be at all in favour of any new bodies.

 

[maxparrish]

That's somewhat of a biased analysis, though. I'm sure that the only reason that they're taking this position is because they lost the election. Had they won it, they would have all about how great the elected powers of the bourgeois state are and they wouldn't be at all in favour of any new bodies.

And of course, when "the law" is decree'd by party operatives in robes, rather than elected legislatures, such frivolities like elections become an empty ritual - a pretend sovereignty of the people. It turns out that a judicial coup is underway:

http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/12/30/inenglish/1451470957_872119.html

The expanded and packed TSJ is 100 percent PSUV and will almost certainly suspend, cancel, or delay the seating of the entire assembly (or at least 8 seats) next Tuesday so as to deny a super-majority to the opposition (which will secure the TSJ jobs as well).

It's long overdue that the opposition wake up to reality; the only way to take power will be at the barrel of a gun.

 

[arkirk]

Venezuela's Maduro and his party cadre has reminded the opposition that it may have won the elections by a landslide, but the process of a showdown battles with the actual rulers of the country has just begun.

http://venezuelablog.tumblr.com/post/136116501284/conflict-of-powers-looms-as-venezuelas-new

The first shot started with an aborted judicial coup d'etat, exposed when the opposition MUD denounced the Chavezista plan to nullify the oppositions 22 seat majority via a writ from the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) to the Supremo de Justicia. The TSJ has denied that any petition has been delivered by their masters...yet.

None the less other threats mature. One of the biggest is that by the outgoing National Assembly President, Diosdado Cabello, who has promoted a parallel “National Communal Parliament,” which has been freely meeting in the Assembly chamber. President Maduro has endorsed the new "body" and declared there should be a “transfer all power to the Communal Parliament, which will be a grass-roots legislative instance.”

“The parliamentary group of the Fatherland needs to become a dynamic engine for the new phase of the Revolution, for the rectifications we need in our political style and discourse, and in our leadership in the streets,” Maduro told a group of elected PSUV deputies in a meeting at Miraflores palace.

For those alarmed by the Maduro's "communal parliament" bombast, the Chavezista legal "expert" Hernandez explained that the Communal Parliament is "suspicious of elected powers that are part of a “Bourgeois State” which should eventually be demolished by more “participatory and direct” forms of government."

Where have we heard of this idea before? Oh ya, it was called "the Soviet", aka the Petrograd Soviet that formed to challenge the Russian provisional government. The socialists elected their own representatives in their "communal parliament", and issued Petrograd Soviet's "Order No. 1" to the which said that party members (including the armed forces) should only obey the government only if their orders did not contradict the decrees of the Petrograd Soviet. Within several months, under the Bolsheviks, came the end of those "bourgeois state" troublemakers.

Gee, with a pedigree like that, what could go wrong?

The other real threat has been Maduro's order to 13 of his Supremeo justices to resign, prior to their term expiration, and the followup to appointment of new Judicial shills in a "special" session. As their terms would have expired in the middle of the next Assembly, Cabello smugly warned the opposition deputies about the future: “confrontation is inevitable and you know it. We will see under what terms and circumstances we have that confrontation.”

Well, well, well...the bloom is off the rose. Elections are a frivolous distraction, Maduro and his allies are sending a message: we rule and we will decide what is law.

Why don't you admit you don't know anything about this topic and quit waving a lot of right wing shit in our faces. You don't seem to understand that the problem is that there is OIL in Venezuela. Whomever would presume to run the place will always be under constant external pressure to privatize the oil business and turn it over to multinational oil companies... You are telling us just what you think and attributing those ideas to Maduro. That is called in the psychological community....PROJECTION.

 

[bleubird]

Max.Why do you care?Oil is like $35.
Send in the Marines,again?

 

[untermensche]

How many nations has Venezuela invaded?

How many terrorist drones does it have over the skies of America?

This insane fear and concern with the internal politics of Venezuela is amusing.

The only people who really care are the one's who were raping the Venezuelan people, maintaining an apartheid state, and taking their resources. They have lost money.

And of course their loyal unthinking sycophants who never miss an opportunity to revel in the hideous concerns of their betters.

 

[Jayjay]

That's somewhat of a biased analysis, though. I'm sure that the only reason that they're taking this position is because they lost the election. Had they won it, they would have all about how great the elected powers of the bourgeois state are and they wouldn't be at all in favour of any new bodies.

And of course, when "the law" is decree'd by party operatives in robes, rather than elected legislatures, such frivolities like elections become an empty ritual - a pretend sovereignty of the people. It turns out that a judicial coup is underway:

http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/12/30/inenglish/1451470957_872119.html

The expanded and packed TSJ is 100 percent PSUV and will almost certainly suspend, cancel, or delay the seating of the entire assembly (or at least 8 seats) next Tuesday so as to deny a super-majority to the opposition (which will secure the TSJ jobs as well).

It's long overdue that the opposition wake up to reality; the only way to take power will be at the barrel of a gun.

That only works if you are at the right end of that barrel. Maduro is the one with the army, and if the opposition grabs the gun they will lose.