BY: TRILL MARQUEZ.
Chavez's kindred Gaddafi goes well beyond phone calls and mutual flattery. The political and economic model that seeks to impose lieutenant colonel in Venezuela is a hardware, in the words of Jorge Olavarria, combines components of populism, communism and nationalism, all sprinkled with megalomania, warlordism and the cult of personality. Nothing great or worthy of entering the political theory as plausible and original contribution.
As the Libyan conflict has progressed and we could look out at the tightly closed society for decades, we have to realize what the scheme in force in that country since the mid nineteen 70 of the last century, when Muammar Qaddafi writes the Green Paper, which is actually not one but three volumes written in the middle of that decade. Chavez's Venezuela saved with Gaddafi's Libya, many more similarities than we imagined.
Many believe that the XXI century socialism, socialism Bolivar, had the fundamental source of inspiration the Cuban experience and Soviet communism and its East European version. Not so, at least not as we imagined. Of course, the pattern established in the Caribbean island influenced the thinking of the autocrat feverish Creole, however, seems more important to the ascendancy of Libya and Qaddafi.
The Libyan, or People's Republic (the great contribution of the despot to democratic culture), which dominates the state of Mass, is a political system in which representative democracy is abolished, and by the lure of direct power the people, are eliminated political parties and all forms of free association in which citizens can delegate the representation of their interests and serve as intermediaries between the state and civil society. Under the pretext of direct democracy and popular power, eliminating the political organizations and popular sovereignty is atomized into communes, councils and assemblies in which citizens participate in making decisions that in no way reduce the immense power of the central state. This fraud mechanism combined with the absolute control of the press and radio and television, engaged in extolling the virtues of power "of the people live" and, above all, to silence and marginalize any voice dissident. When persuasion is not enough to keep silence, go into action repressive state bodies, responsible for ensuring the cohesion of the "people's democracy."
The similarities of the Jamahiriya with the laws of the Community, popular power, communal councils, and all the rest of the battery of legal and miniinstituciones members of the Bolivarian direct democracy are evident. Los Chavez, always so original, in Venezuela trying to recreate the same sketch with genes Libyan enrazado fidelity. Bolivarian popular power, sold as native formula of democracy, is a simple reproduction caricature of the molds that Gadhafi in Libya introduced four decades ago.
The other important feature, which appears in the second volume of the Green Paper is the Islamic socialism. According to its principles of private property is reduced to a minimum. The major means of production owned by the State. Libya remains an oil nation, there is no doubt that the oil industry is state owned and operated by Gadhafi at his whim. In recent years, although the public sector has continued to maintain a majority stake, this has had to partner with transnational capital owing to massive amounts of capital to be invested in the exploration, exploitation and marketing of oil and the lack of financial resources of the state. Only small and medium industries may be in private hands, but controlled and operated by the Government. This Islamic socialism only has the name it is the same socialism interventionist, regulating and stifling there since the Bolsheviks led the coup in 1917. It is identical to that here in Venezuela has been called Bolivarian Socialism, "but failed to provide" a touch of originality. 
Gaddafi and Chávez-like in his megalomania and the cult of personality that have sought to encourage building a society collectivism, religious, single, monolithic thinking, made up with the veneer of the masses. At first he ran out the gadgets and charisma. The second is that the wet powder.
@ tmarquezc
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