“Intellectuals, for the most part, while claiming their role as guides, consider themselves free of all moral responsibility. Sartre would have experienced a great surprise if he had been asked to account for the millions of corpses heaped up by the various totalitarian regimes for which he was a lifelong propagandist.”
Jean Francois Revel
Caracas Venezuela. – The common practice of the left for decades of making propaganda through manifestos, communiqués, letters, to direct people towards their beliefs or voters to vote for their candidates is well known. In this political action, intellectuals have played a central role. Said action always has a hidden purpose: to manipulate those social strata considered inferior (the voting mass of the population) so that they think and vote according to the orientations of the intellectuals, since they, considering themselves as superior beings possessing a consciousness elevated by their knowledge, they would know what is best for the masses. Let’s see where this “elite” way of thinking comes from.
The background: Manifesto of anti-fascist intellectuals
On March 5, 1934, the Manifesto of the Surveillance Committee of Antifascist Intellectuals, made up of communists and socialists (promoted by the famous physicist Paul Longevin, the ethnologist Paul River and the philosopher Alain), was published in France. It is a founding text, the first in a history that reaches our days, where the stratum of intellectuals (respected by French society) takes sides as a political actor behind a noble cause: the fight against fascism.
An unexpected event sentenced the Committee to death: The Friendship Pact signed by Stalin and Hitler in August 1939. The French Communist Intellectuals (PCF) immediately accepted the leader’s line and stopped being anti-fascists. But when Hitler invaded the USSR, in June 1941, they would be so again. Aron would say that they were traitors to his homeland, France, since in reality his homeland was the Soviet Union.
Although the Committee of Intellectuals disappeared in 1939, the format of the Manifesto would be adopted by the left-wing parties of the West as a propaganda resource of permanent use.
Venezuela 1989: 911 intellectuals and artists with Fidel
In our country we learned, in February 1989, a copy of the format of the French Manifesto. Taking advantage of the visit of the Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro, invited by President Carlos Andrés Pérez to the swearing-in of his second term, 911 intellectuals and artists published in the newspaper The National the “Welcome Manifesto to Fidel Castro”.
With this manifesto, the signatories wanted to send an implicit message to Venezuelans: you, like us, should prefer Fidel over President Carlos Andrés Pérez and also a communist regime over Venezuelan democracy.
Today the signatories cannot evade their responsibility for having contributed to the discrediting climate of our democracy, which destroyed the moral and political reserves necessary to preserve it when necessary. And neither can they avoid it given the resemblance that Venezuela has today with Cuba, a country that has lived in misery and slavery for more than half a century.
Colombia 2022: 1,100 academics with Petro
A letter from hundreds of academics offering their support to the candidate has been published in Colombia Petro in the presidential elections on June 19.
It is affirmed that the letter “is the result of the committed work of the academy”, a phrase that has an aroma of expired merchandise, but that in the closed dispute for the presidency it may be sold and contribute to the leftist candidate winning. The great danger that Colombians run is that, as happened here in Venezuela, and as the candidate has suggested, after winning the election he decides to perpetuate himself in the executive power. Colombia cannot run that risk.
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