“In Venezuela, Conditions for Building Socialism of the 21st Century Have Been Created”
Interview with Heinz Dieterich
By Cristina Marcano, Rebelion.org
Q. Professor Dieterich, did you invent the concept of “Socialism of the 21st Century”?
A. Yes. I developed it, beginning in 1996. It has been published with its corresponding theory in book form, from 2000 on, in Mexico, Ecuador, Argentina, Central America, Brazil, and Venezuela, and, outside Latin America, in Spain, Germany, the People’s Republic of China, Russia, and Turkey. Since 2001, it has been appropriated all over the world. Presidents like Hugo Chávez and Rafael Correa use it constantly, and so do labor movements, farmers, intellectuals, and political parties. (more…)
