Tsk Tsk Tsk -- Big mistake -- Chavez is too impatient to follow the rules written by Gramsci on how to destroy the Church!
He didn't read (or believe) "B" below and broke the rule "E"
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...B. Lenin was wrong, and the Leninist revolution will fail
......1. The workers will see the revolutionary government as a new boss
......2. When the revolution fails, the west will re-import Capitalism
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...E. Both Capitalism and Judaeo-Christian culture must be destroyed before a Communist revolution can succeed
......1. Religious sentiment cannot be destroyed through legislation, as Lenin believed, but must be redirected from the divine to the state
.........a. Terror will only drive Religion underground
.........b. Religion will then reemerge when Leninism fails
.........c. So Religion must be destroyed in the minds of men
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Gramsci wasn't 'tupid. He must have written this tongue-in-cheek knowing that religion is a lot more likely to reemerge from the ashes than any logical, artificial construct such as Communism.