Media Critiques President Hugo Chávez and The Caviar of the Left http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_63347.shtml

A handful of Left Wing Writers (LWWs) have begun to ramp up their attacks on President Chávez, published on English and Spanish websites over the last few months in the run-up to the 2012 Venezuelan presidential elections. In some cases, the Left Media publishes the attacks, wanting to claim “neutrality”, i.e. presenting “both sides of a story” in the tradition of imperialist media like the New York Times, Washington Post and others. Axis of Logic has always held that no media can be neutral or “value-free” and that all media writes, publishes and broadcasts from an underlying set of assumptions.

The writings of these armchair authors are known by revolutionaries in Venezuela as “The Caviar of the Left.” Ironically, some of these attacks come from purist ideologies and a mindset that views President Chávez as one who has abandoned international support for vague notions of what a revolution should be in these writers’ minds. Other attacks are launched by writers who have infiltrated the Bolivarian Revolution and consciously serve imperialism, having developed and exploited pseudo-revolutionary credentials.

In both cases, they are viewed by many to be members of the Left Wing on the political spectrum. Their far-flung attacks contain flagrant factual errors and they unwittingly or otherwise play into the imperialist plan to split Chávez’ power base, so as to weaken his 2012 presidential campaign and the revolution. In at least one case, a well known LWW waited to abandon earlier support of President Chávez, attacking him after the president was diagnosed with cancer last week in Cuba.Axis of Logic editors and writers have been examining these attacks and have planned a series of editorials in rebuttal.

We welcome constructive criticism within our ranks, which is vital to the health and success of the revolution, but we eschew destructive and self-serving critics and irresponsible writing that serves the interests of the enemy. In this series we will be examining the baseless and strategically naïve criticism that puts the Bolivarian Revolution at risk. The editorials will focus on the Leftist attacks in 3 critical areas

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