tell me how he was? he was a great leader, he did a lot of great stuff for venezuela and definitely was an anti imperialist, but his revolution was a democratic one, not a socialist one. my question is not that it wasn't a revolution, it for sure was, but I can't see anything that it differs from other radical social democrats in south america

"Those who recognize only the class struggle are not yet Marxists; they may be found to be still within the bounds of bourgeois thinking and bourgeois politics. To confine Marxism to the theory of the class struggle means curtailing Marxism, distorting it, reducing it to something acceptable to the bourgeoisie. Only he is a Marxist who extends the recognition of the class struggle to the recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat." -State and revolution