Por qué criticar a la revolución

The question is simple, but the answer is still complex. Why criticize the society we build, the programs we have bet on, the steps we have taken? (Or to put it in the words of José Carlos Mariátegui, why do we question the "contemporary scene"?) Criticism should not be the result of a stubborn affirmation of "socialist", "humanist" or "Bolivarian" ideals. Criticism is made possible, mainly, because there are contradictions in the same society . At the moment we are obliged to criticize because in Venezuela the main social forms - still, the merchandise and the capital -, as well as the social and institutional framework that reproduce them, are in themselves contradictory. The existence of these social forms of domination, as well as the possibilities inscribed in their own contradictions, calls us to criticism. With the twist of T. Adorno's critical theory, we would say: "No society that contradicts its own concept - the concept of humanity - can have full self-awareness."