“I recommend this good book, booklet to go by its size, but the content is big”, Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez said on his television program Alo Presidente on January 21. He was speaking about Build it Now: Socialism for the Twenty-first Century, written by Michael Lebowitz.
On the same show in April last year, Chavez had commented “Michael Lebowitz sent me a good work, a chapter of a book about Venezuela
‘The Revolution of Radical Need’.” Agreeing with Lebowitz’s key argument, Chavez insisted: “A revolution has to satisfy people’s needs in a radical way — that is at the root. And therefore this revolution has to become more and more radical … I stress Michael Lebowitz’s concept … because we are in a hurry.”
This recommendation of the latest book by Lebowitz, a Canadian Marxist academic, by the central leader of the Bolivarian revolution is reason enough to read this book. Lebowitz is active participant in the revolution. He currently lives in Venezuela, where he has previously worked as an advisor for the Chavez government. He works as an advisor with the Miranda International Centre, which seeks to promote discussion and debate both in Venezuela and internationally on revolutionary ideology. Only the book’s final chapter deals specifically with Venezuela, but as Lebowitz explains in the introduction: “Although the essays in this book come from various sources, most relate in some way to Venezuela, a country which at the time of writing embodies the hopes of many for a real alternative to capitalism.”
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