Rule by decree passed for Chavez
Friday, 19 January 2007, 00:23 GMT



"President Chavez has vowed to deepen his "Bolivarian revolution"
Venezuela's National Assembly has given initial approval to a bill granting President Hugo Chavez the power to rule by decree for 18 months.

Mr Chavez said he wants to approve "revolutionary laws" to enact sweeping political, economic and social changes."

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To Rule By Decree is to claim prior and relative infallibility.

That goes directly against the Communist Ideal which has, at its heart, the appreciation of the fact - the certainty of the fallibility of humanity. The one certainty that it might be allowed to indulge in is in the resolute acceptance and implementation of Communocracy[author's term] - that is, democracy observed within Communistic auspices that forbids one to do unto another that which one would not have done unto oneself. This translates, in socio-economic terms, to the outlawing of capitalism and its consequential, Bourgeoiscracy.

Just as the Bourgeoiscratic construction and experience of reality has seen the harnessing of human imagination and all its myriad of potentials for the purpose of irrigating the fields of Capitalist enterprise, the Communocratic vision has to appreciate the importance and indispensability of unrestrained human imagination in furthering and realising the Communalist cause. Hence, it will have to harness human imagination and all its myriad of potentials for the purpose of relieving it of its harness, and thus, realising its multifarious potentials. This can only be done for the people and by the people. Thus, the need to maintain Communocracy lest Power held by a single person, on the basis of her/his prior belief in her relative infallibility, lead to the future belief in her/is continuous infallibility. This can only lead to the mutation of such a state into that of a State Capitalist system.

Whilst Hugo Chavez may be armed with the best of intentions, his sight will inevitably be blighted by the Human Precondition - fallibility. By claiming the right to Rule by Decree, he validates that which has supported the Capitalist scheme of things for centuries - the arrogant claim to infallibility. And by doing thus, he keeps alive the Spirit of Capitalism in this generic fashion. S/he who maintain a generic ideal such as this, keeps open the conduits via which it may transmutate into the self-serving perspectives that currently nourish the hadean fields of Capitalism.