http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/images/golpe_de_timon.jpgChávez, before dying, called for a "golpe de timón," a radical change of course. Whatever his expressed intentions -- such as strengthening the commune or improving the conduct of political cadres -- this dying wish of Chávez cannot be understood as anything other than his intuitive grasp of the need to recover strategic thought and political practice: the need to plan a strategic move that would break with the class alliance of the heretofore operative Chavist model. Indeed, this is the way forward for Chavism, however dark the times may seem and however complicated the mediations would be between the present moment and this new strategic objective.

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