There are too many red rags, and we do not get tired of ramming them, like a beast in a bullfighting festival. The last one, the "Law against Fascism, Neofascism and similar expressions" (see in Spanish Tal Cual, ¿Qué contempla el proyecto de ley contra el fascismo, la nueva amenaza de Maduro, in https://talcualdigital.com/que-contempla-el-proyecto-de-ley-contra-el-fascismo-la-nueva-amenaza-de-maduro/) has diverted everyone's attention from what should really matter to us: days go by and there is still no response from the regime to the registration of María Corina Machado (MCM) or Dr. Corina Yoris Villasana at the CNE, to participate in the elections of June 28.
In the face of growing international pressure, the regime is protecting itself by branding dissidence as "fascist", justifying the persecution they would unleash against MCM and any other form of opposition that is neither purchasable nor threatening, terrified by the expression "until the end" of MCM's campaign. That is what is really important now, will they or will they not measure up to MCM? And the answer is the threat...
And why do I think that law is not the important thing now? Because, and I ask you all, when did the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros -and before that of Hugo Chávez Frías- need a law to lash out against political dissidence and forcibly disappear its opponents? Did the regime need to label Fernando Albán as a "fascist" to throw him from a tenth floor? Or did the Maduro regime need to pigeonhole as "fascists, neo-fascists and similar expressions" the members of the MCM commando asylum in the Argentinean Embassy? Does the regime need any "legal" reason to persecute, lock up, torture and kill any Venezuelan, or simply disappear them as they disappeared Rocío San Miguel and Dignora Hernández? Did Chávez need a law to order the shooting of unarmed marchers on Baralt Avenue from Puente Llaguno on April 11, 2002? You have the answer. You tell us if now we should worry about it being put in writing...
And it is not that I underestimate what they can do with that piece of legislation that only comes out of the desperation of those who see themselves on the way out, because as of its definitive approval, all Venezuelans can be branded as "fascists", thus formalizing a target that we already had stuck on our backs. This law would be the legal justification for the uncontrolled repression that will come before the imminence of anything that happens in the country as a consequence of having a whole people against them, who no longer swallow the lie of a proven fraudulent election, nor the repression as a response to the denial of their most basic needs. The only thing left to keep them in power is brute force in the face of any dissidence that may appear along the way. No one can sit on bayonets forever, but the Maduro regime is going to try with this law against the grain of history.
But what is incredible is that a regime of clearly fascist characteristics pretends with a law to persecute its dissidence using the very reason that sustains its own existence. An intellectual authority on the subject of fascism, the Italian semiologist and essayist Umberto Eco (1932-2016), described extensively in 1995, in a lecture in New York, what fascism is and how to identify it in its essence (see Umberto Eco, What is fascism according to the writer and philosopher Umberto Eco, in https://interferencia.cl/articulos/que-es-el-fascismo-segun-el-escritor-y-filosofo-umberto-eco). Let's analyze a small part of this paper:
"All this is not to say that Italian
fascism was tolerant.
Gramsci was sent to prison until his death; opposition leaders Giacomo
Matteotti and the Rosselli brothers were assassinated; the free press was
abolished, trade unions were dismantled and political dissidents were confined
to remote islands. The legislative power was transformed into a mere
fiction and the executive power (which controlled both the judiciary and the
mass media) directly passed new laws, among them those calling for the
preservation of race (the formal gesture of Italian support for what became the
Holocaust)".
Any known coincidence of the Italian fascism described by Umberto Eco,
with the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros? Opponents imprisoned until their
death, free press closed and abolished, workers unions dismantled and
disappeared, dissidents exiled, Legislative Power turned into mere fiction, and
Executive Power controlling the rest of the public powers and the media,
passing laws to control and subdue the population, such as this "Law against
Fascism, Neofascism and similar expressions" that they have just passed in
first discussion.
Umberto Eco enumerates in his paper a list of 14 characteristics to
identify what he called Eternal Fascism, and which is the reflection of what in
essence are those who want to apply to us a law that in good logic should be
applied to themselves. I will only highlight for reasons of space the first
three:
"...I consider it possible to indicate a
list of typical characteristics of what I would like to call "Ur-Fascism",
or "eternal fascism". Such characteristics cannot be framed in one system; many contradict
each other, and are typical of other forms of despotism or fanaticism, but it
is enough for one of them to be present to make a fascist nebula coagulate."
"1.- The first characteristic of an Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition..... As a consequence, there can no longer be any advancement of knowledge. The truth has already been announced once and for all, and the only thing we can do is to continue to interpret its obscure message..." (emphasis added).
And what better proof of the Eternal Fascism of the regime for this first characteristic than the statements of Héctor Rodríguez, current Governor of Miranda State in 2014 when he was Minister of Education: "It is not that we are going to take people out of poverty to take them to the middle class and pretend to be squalid" (see Statements by the Minister of Education, Apertura Venezuela, in http://aperturaven.blogspot.com/2014/02/no-podemos-sacar-la-gente-de-la-pobreza.html). They are not interested in people advancing in knowledge by educating themselves and raising their level, on pain of turning them into opponents. For them, it is necessary to maintain ignorance...
"2.- Traditionalism implies the rejection
of modernism .... The
rejection of the modern world was camouflaged as a condemnation of the
capitalist way of life, but it mainly concerned the repulsion of the spirit of
1789 (and of 1776, obviously). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, are
seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In that sense, Ur-Fascism can
be defined as irrationalism."
The regime's revulsion to the spirit of democracy and liberty, born of
the French Revolution of 1789 and condemnation of the capitalist way of life as
a whole, is a hallmark of the Chavez and Maduro regime. The embracing and
exporting of the XXI century socialist model and its totalitarian form, is
evidence of the full presence of this characteristic in the Venezuelan regime.
"3.- Irrationalism also depends on the
cult of action for action's sake. Action is beautiful in itself, therefore, it must be acted upon
before or even without any reflection. Thinking is a form of castration.
That is why culture is suspect to the extent that it is identified with
critical attitudes. From the statement attributed to Goebbels
("When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun") to the frequent
use of expressions such as "degenerate intellectuals",
"university, den of communists", suspicion towards the intellectual
world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism".
The regime's proven contempt for all forms of intellectual and university expression, proven by the consistent and blatant attempt to control the universities since its arrival to power, bending university autonomy, attests to the existence of this characteristic of Echo. The creation of its own and parallel "universities", with careers far below the academic standard of the country is proof that thinking is a crime for this XXI century fascism, and the intention to discriminate and replace the existing professionals of the traditional national universities by their own of the lowest quality dragged to power.
According to Eco, only one of these characteristics is enough to "make
a fascist nebula coagulate". The Venezuelan experience indicates that
we have had this nebula coagulated in Venezuela for a long time.
Let us not lose sight of what is important, worrying now about what is
urgent, no matter how ominous it may be. This 21st century Eternal Fascism of
the Venezuelan regime needs us confused, scared and intimidated, and that is
the real reason for this law. The problem is not that abominable legislation,
it is the fascist regime that sustains it and we have a chance to change it, if
the political leadership of the only opposition with legitimacy of origin is
not distracted by these red rags. It still has time to reject the electoralist
trap of the regime and summon the people to decide a final route using the last
4 articles of the Constitution...
Caracas, April 5, 2024
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