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Chavez: Legal to Own in Socialism
Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
denounced a smear campaign aimed at distorting the
course of social justice in the process of changes
he has led since 1999.
The president warned in his Sunday column, Las
lineas de Chavez, of the attempt to make the
population believe they will lose their homes, cars
or "anything legally owned through effort and work
such as property."
If for ten years, he explained, "these oligarchs
have attacked the right to food, education and
health it is not surprising that they warn against
Venezuelan rights to property, furniture or a home."
The president cautioned even "those compatriots who
are not sympathizers of the Revolution who may
suffer through the overwhelming perversity of those
who claim to be their defenders and
representatives."
Chavez added that "we must continue to work
establishing equality and achieving it through the
principle 'To each according to his capacity and to
each according to his needs' and that this is not
only a principle of socialism but also a Christian
principle that has its roots in primitive
Christianity.
He recalled that in the Sermon on the Mount (Luc 6,
20-25) Jesus condemned the rich saying "Oh of thee
who are full, why are you hungry! Oh of thee, who
laugh here! why do you cry and wail!"
On the contrary, he explained, capitalism brags of
the inexistence of classes and alleged equal
opportunities while its perversity is fundamentally
to break any balance possible between legality and
justice.
Referring to the Venezuelan situation and illegal
activities of several entrepreneurs, including those
linked to the media, Chavez warned that during times
of crisis capitalists are revealed as real capos. |
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