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There's something interesting about potential: while these initiatives have potential to go in the direction of large-scale participatory democracy, they also have the potential to do in the direction of authoritarian statism pretending to be participatory democracy.

If Chavez is so confused to think that Belarus is a good model, then it's clear that all the slogans about "power to the people" really mean nothing more than "power to the authoritarian workers' state that claims its legitimacy through the people.

Honestly I think that most pro-Chavez sentiments are due to leftist wishful thinking.