Prohibido equivocarse
Jhonny Lazo Zubieta
Fuente: http://www.bolpress.com/art.php?Cod=2008072413
Habrá que comenzar por reconocer que el tránsito de la dictadura de clase, que vivimos a partir del Decreto Supremo de 1985 a la “democracia participativa sin exclusión” (2006) fue un proceso de incontables dificultades. Conquistar la democracia participativa se asemeja a subir al Illimani, para lo cual se requiere inteligencia, capacidad, coraje y unidad del pueblo boliviano, que con sus vaivenes logramos cierta unidad y ganar algunas batallas como fue permitir que el compañeros Evo Morales Ayma llegue a la presidencia. En cambio volver a la “dictadura de clase”, es como caer desde un monte empinado. Para que ello suceda apenas se necesita un traspié, un descuido o una falta de percepción adecuada de la realidad política boliviana, pues los testaferros medios de comunicación no nos perdonarán nada.
Estas palabras se insertan en los prolegómenos que vivimos rumbo al referendo revocatorio. Alguien dirá que esto nada cambiará, que las cosas seguirán lo mismo y que los alimentos siguen subiendo. Quizá ello sea evidente. Pero no debemos olvidar que los privilegiados de este país desde su fundación, no han sido aún derrotados. Por ello es imperativo ratificar al presidente y vice presidente con un porcentaje mucho mayor que el obtenido en las elecciones anteriores; además, es nuestra oportunidad para derrotarles contundentemente a los prefectos antipatrias de la media luna.
Demandas como los de la COB y de otros sectores en estos momentos no se pueden leer sino como traición a la patria de trabajadores del campo y de la ciudad, como también a la clase media. El pueblo lo interpreta de esa forma y tiene memoria, vaya que tiene memoria, no olviden octubre del 2003
Esto no quiere decir, naturalmente, que la ratificación y la revocación sean una varita mágica para solucionar los agudos problemas económicos por los que atraviesa el país, crisis que no es privativa de Bolivia, sino responde a la crisis alimentaría mundial. Significa sin embargo, que esos problemas tendrán mayores posibilidades de resolverse con un gobierno nacional que todavía no tienen tapiado sus oídos y aun no sufren de daltonismo; además viven junto a los sectores mayoritarios del país.
Esta exhortación, es sobre toda a la clase media, a sectores que se reclaman de izquierda pero cuya actitud no se diferencia con la derecha; a los compañeros del POR que dejen por el momento su dogmatismo y por primera vez sean trotskistas de verdad. No olviden que la consigna de Trotski era apoyar al proceso nacionalizador del presidente Cárdenas en México, esta es la oportunidad que tienen para reivindicarse ante los ojos de los bolivianos. Basta ya de seguir con el rosario de don Guillermo Lora.
Nuestra consigna en este momento debe ser: golpear juntos a la irracional bestialidad de la media luna, PODEMOS y UN. Es hora de derrotarles a esta derecha que no tiene proyecto de clase, por eso no puede ser llamada burguesía. Una vez que nacionalicemos el país, tendremos tiempo de ajustar cuentas con el MAS si es que las hay.
Por enésima vez voy a repetir la frase de don Sergio Almaraz: la revolución no se encuentra en un escaparate para poder elegir cual seguir, la revolución es esta sin margen de error. En este sentido, es hora que TODOS debemos hacer un esfuerzo sostenido para reafirmar la democracia participativa no exclusiva, como base esencial que permita a la clase trabajadora y a los sectores populares intervenir de manera cada vez más activa en la solución de los problemas nacionales.
PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY vs REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY
We as citizens of the United States observe politics from afar and the vast majority of us may participate in the political process only to the extent that we go to the polls once a year to vote. We may endeavor to follow the news accounts of our nation's politics as they unfold, and of the consequences those political actions yield, but we have little power to influence our "democratically" elected officials. Perhaps we write an occasional letter to our senator or representative, but we almost inevitably receive a vague and impersonal response explaining why they will vote in our opposition.
Over the decades, our representative democracy has been systematically undermined and has ultimately failed in preserving the well being of the people of this nation. The system that the founding fathers painstakingly devised in order to best serve the interests and the will of the people has been corrupted and the systems of checks and balances on power that they instituted have been stripped away. Most of us accept this reality as being beyond our control and continue to observe, comment, and complain without aspiring to achieving any real change, without any hope of instituting a new system of governance that would instead take directly into account your views, and the views of your neighbors, and would empower you to make real positive change possible in your communities.
This site will attempt to explore in depth the places in the world where people are successfully bringing about that type of change in the face of similar odds, where an alternate form of democracy, which is called participatory or direct democracy, is taking root. Initiative, referendum & recall, community councils, and grassroots organizing are but a few ways in which direct/participatory democracy is achieving great success around the world.
Our system of representative democracy does not admit the voice of the people into congressional halls, the high courts, or the oval office where our rights and our liberties are being sold out from underneath us. Our local leaders and activists in our communities, and even those local elected officials who may have the best of intentions are for the most part powerless to make real positive change happen in our neighborhoods, towns and villages when there is so much corruption from above.
In places like Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Brazil, South Africa, India, and the Phillipines, new experiments in grass roots community based governance are taking place. There is much to be learned from these and other examples of participatory democracy from around the world when we try to examine how this grass-roots based governance could begin to take root here in our own country in order to alter our political system so that it might better serve the American people.
In the hope that one day we can become a nation working together as a united people practicing true democracy as true equals, we open this forum…
Over the decades, our representative democracy has been systematically undermined and has ultimately failed in preserving the well being of the people of this nation. The system that the founding fathers painstakingly devised in order to best serve the interests and the will of the people has been corrupted and the systems of checks and balances on power that they instituted have been stripped away. Most of us accept this reality as being beyond our control and continue to observe, comment, and complain without aspiring to achieving any real change, without any hope of instituting a new system of governance that would instead take directly into account your views, and the views of your neighbors, and would empower you to make real positive change possible in your communities.
This site will attempt to explore in depth the places in the world where people are successfully bringing about that type of change in the face of similar odds, where an alternate form of democracy, which is called participatory or direct democracy, is taking root. Initiative, referendum & recall, community councils, and grassroots organizing are but a few ways in which direct/participatory democracy is achieving great success around the world.
Our system of representative democracy does not admit the voice of the people into congressional halls, the high courts, or the oval office where our rights and our liberties are being sold out from underneath us. Our local leaders and activists in our communities, and even those local elected officials who may have the best of intentions are for the most part powerless to make real positive change happen in our neighborhoods, towns and villages when there is so much corruption from above.
In places like Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Brazil, South Africa, India, and the Phillipines, new experiments in grass roots community based governance are taking place. There is much to be learned from these and other examples of participatory democracy from around the world when we try to examine how this grass-roots based governance could begin to take root here in our own country in order to alter our political system so that it might better serve the American people.
In the hope that one day we can become a nation working together as a united people practicing true democracy as true equals, we open this forum…
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