Utopian Delusions: Communitarianism By Lance Fairchok

"We are witnessing a seizure and redirection of power through legitimate means. This is not a dictatorship but something more complex: the tyranny of popularity." – Alberto Barrera Tyszka, co-author of a best-selling biography of Hugo Chávez

In a coup d'état careful to cloak itself in the trappings of legitimacy, Hugo Chavez hopes to become the dictator of Venezuela for life. To accomplish this goal he has subverted, undermined and destroyed the democratic institutions of a once prosperous nation. Using oil money to buy and bribe votes and fuel his appeal to immigrants, government workers and the poor, Chavez will remake Venezuela into South America’s Cuba. Store shelves are already going empty and violent crime has exploded. Peaceful student demonstrations are now being put down with bullets. This latter day Che Guevara can only destroy what has come before, and as all would-be populist dictators will remake something merely flawed into something vile. His supporters, even those breathless ideologues dressed in red, will find that in the years to come their joy in the “dictatorship of the people” will turn to ashes. Utopia is a glittering illusion, a malevolent myth that torments and deludes humanity.

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