Caracas, November 8, 2023 (Mincomunas Press) – This Wednesday, the People’s Power Minister for Communes and Social Movements, Jorge Arreaza, assured that the Argentine-Mexican philosopher Enrique Dussel leaves an invaluable mark on the Bolivarian Revolution.
During his participation in the homage to the master Enrique Dussel, organized by the Philosophy and Liberation Association, Minister Arreaza commented on how Commander Hugo Chavez presented Dussel’s works and thoughts to the Venezuelan people.
“As the Venezuelan singer Ali Primera used to say: ‘Those who die for life cannot be called dead!’ I believe that the insurgent master Enrique Dussel is immortal. If anyone died for life, it was precisely Dussel; he affirmed it and affirmed it in every chapter, every paragraph, every word he bequeathed to us. I remember that Commander Chavez turned our attention to Dussel’s thoughts on how we had to generate a new institutionality connected, dependent, and rooted in the people, arising from the popular power and never disconnected from the popular power”, expressed Arreaza.
In this sense, Minister Arreaza asserted that the work of philosopher Enrique Dussel serves to understand the notion of power from service and not from domination.
“Dussel even helped us to understand Commander Chavez himself. To understand and work for that new institutionality that emerges like leaves, as a people with virtuous aggregations, not to dominate, but to liberate itself. The impact of Dussel and his disciples has been valuable in Venezuela today. President Nicolas Maduro is a reader of Dussel. We talked about how to apply what Dussel bequeaths us in revolutionary practice, especially in times of aggression and difficulty. How much and to what extent Dussel influenced Chavez’s thinking and the Bolivarian Revolution? There is an unquestionable direct influence of Dussel sown in our conscience and our mind from Commander Chavez and with President Maduro”, he emphasized.
According to the head of the portfolio of Communes, in the organization of the Venezuelan people and the assemblies of popular power, the influence of the master Enrique Dussel is seen.
“We make decisions in the path of popular legitimacy; there is no other way. Decisions must cling to life, to reaffirm life, but they must be viable because, otherwise, we will be plowing in the sea. Enrique Dussel taught us to approach Marx in another way. He taught us to see a non-linear, non-sacralized Marx. He taught us to understand Hegel from another point of view. Taking what he could from them as subversive, and insurgent, Dussel gave us new formulas to advance in building a different model. What Dussel did was to open for us the sources, springs but not from the East or Europe, but from wells in our land, invaluable to build a new model”, he pointed out.
Finally, the People’s Minister for Communes and Social Movements, Jorge Arreaza, stressed that, for Venezuela, Simon Rodriguez was the decolonial master in colonial times.
“Simon Rodriguez was the Enrique Dussel of our colonial times. And Enrique Dussel is the Simon Rodriguez of this time. I believe that Dussel was trying to clear the unknown of the liberation of man and woman that Simon Rodriguez and Simon Bolivar posed. Master Dussel left us the clues to be able to achieve that debt. It is not in Europe. It is in this world: in the global South. Here is the formula of man and woman in freedom”, he stressed.
