The Patria program and later the Plan Plan de la Patria, included among its national objectives, making Venezuela a society of equals. It is very visible there.
Am I today (2018), a little more like Lorenzo Mendoza and the carajitos de Diosdado?
Definitely yes. Legal and practically yes; There is no discussion and doubt about it. I show you and I show you with a simple example.
Suppose, that my eight grandchildren were friends of the grandchildren of Lorenzo Mendoza and the carajitos de Diosdado and decided to go to a shopping center east of Caracas to eat empanadas de pabellón, which is very unlikely, that east east of Caracas sell such zambumbia. In this hypothetical act of social and egalitarian detachment between the grandchildren of Lorenzo Mendoza and the carajitos de Diosdado with my grandchildren, is the data to show, that today between Lorenzo, Diosdado and I, the differences have been shortened. Let's start with the fact that each one swallows his empanada de pabellón and everyone pays with his golden card.
A machine of those authorized by the SENIAT, which as a machine, has no class position, produces an invoice with a VAT. My grandchildren, who do not have a gold or white card, like the grandchildren of Lorenzo Mendoza and the carajitos de Diosdado, must pay the same percentage of VAT for swallowing such a zambumbia east of Caracas. Are we or are we not the same?
Suppose (another example), that Lorenzo Mendoza, Diosdado and I do not meet to discuss a forthcoming plan 50 so as not to reach anything. Each one of us, we take a couple of whiskey 18 years and everyone pays. The same VAT that comes in the bill of Lorenzo Mendoza, in Diosdado and mine, is the same. The invoices in the empirical demonstration of this fact, which puts equality to the test. The same VAT. Igualitos!
This situation is presented to Chico, who is the coordinator of the work in my small farm. When I thought I had legitimized my thesis that today we are more equal than we were 10 years ago, the next day comes to blow my thesis.
He accused me of coming to me with an ideological trap without a political foundation. He told me, we are going dialectically to the concrete, as Karel Kosík suggested to us in the Dialectic of concreteness. You had a cart before, you regularly did your maintenance of oil, washing the engine and when you went to rumba for Margarita, came after 15 days with two rubbers, their Clarks cholas, some Adidas sneakers and a very small pantaleticas and nice clothes hanging on the patio clothesline.
He asked me: Is it true or false? I said yes, but it seemed very perverse to have noticed my panties. Then it came to me with a battery of questions: Where is your cart? Why is not your cart now? Why did not the last time he went to Margarita bring Clarks cholas, or nice rubbers or panteleticas? Is a complete pill taken for your stress problem today?
After these questions came another tank of considerations and question: God will have stopped his cart for lack of rubber, oil? Will Lorenzo Mendoza have it? Will they have only one cart both? Will the grandchildren of Mendoza and the carajitos de Diosdado not have a private driver with a private car to take them to school? How are your grandchildren going to Cecilia school?
The friendly VAT Cecilia, with a clear voice told me, is the expression of a social policy inclined to favor those who have more. Socialism has maintained an equal VAT for you, for me, for Lorenzo Mendoza and for Diosdado. VAT is not a standard for evaluating equality. What did you learn at the UCV? Your cart stopped without rubbers or oil is also that. A situation that tells us that for now, this of a society of equals is a lie. What you should do, is to take care of your pantaleticas and your cholitas and zapaticos Clarks.
That was an illusion; get out of that cloud. Do not you see Diosdado on Wednesdays with those thin shirts? Can you wear one of those camisitas today? The concrete is the concrete. In the little one, the grandchildren of Lorenzo Mendoza and the carajitos de Diosdado are not the same as their grandchildren.