Doug Henwood wrote:
I interviewed Tariq Ali the other week for my radio show, and finally got to broadcast it last night; it'll be up on my web archive today. Tariq speaks with Chavez fairly often, and says that Chavez regularly says that we are not living in a revolutionary epoch, and all we can accomplish now is a left social democratic set of reforms. "We cannot leap" beyond history, he says - and Castro reportedly agrees. This is what Chavez means when he talks about 21st century socialism.
. Hugo Chavez, Lula et al, have no reason to 'leap beyond history' to revolution, because the 'revolution' has already happened, is happening, and when you are in the middle of the whirlwind, the air is quite still, and refreshing. Leigh
