The Boschist Theory, raised by the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) as its guide to action to lead the country, failed. His rescue as proposed by the leadership is unfeasible in these circumstances.
In almost half a century of foundation and two decades in government, the basic principles of the mentor and historical leader of this organization, Joan Bosch, were hijacked by a petty intellectual bourgeoisie that diverted them from their goal for the your personal gain.
Now that the PLD is entering a complex process of renewal and change, after being surprised by its most shocking internal division and exorbitant defeat in the last three elections last year, the Dominican people could interpret as demagogic that their decimated direction embrace this political philosophy again.
Few Dominicans already remember the essence and goodness of “Boschismo” sold as a theoretical weapon to complete the patriotic work begun by Juan Pablo Duarte and the Trinitarians. Or to achieve an independent homeland, in which social justice and respect for human dignity will prevail.
Nor do the new generations understand that the PLD betrays its goal of becoming an alternative to the individualistic, populist and conservative practices that prevailed in the country. With such original characteristics that Bosch himself went so far as to describe it as a “unique party in Latin America.”
The upper and middle leadership also threw overboard basic principles, which were part of the “bible” of the Peledeists: “The PLD is a standard-bearer and spokesman for the general interests of citizens who aspire to a society based on the values of freedom, tolerance , justice and progress. It must in no way represent particular or group interests that contradict the collective project, “reads its statement of principles.
Bosch’s Odyssey
When former President Bosch abruptly resigned on November 23, 1973, his position as top leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), which he had founded in Cuba in 1939, he was only followed by a handful of loyal leaders. of the so-called Standing Committee of the White Party. The political country shuddered in disbelief.
“The Professor,” par excellence, set out weak, unconvincing arguments to start this new odyssey at this time. He expressed that the PRD had fulfilled its historical role in national politics and that the class struggle was deepening in the form of attacks of the old against the supporters of the new that he represented.
Then Bosch founded the PLD on December 15, 1973 on the discreet constituent Congress Juan Pablo Duarte, with the motto: “Serve the party to serve the country.” It established that the PLD would set out to finish the work of liberation that began the Father of the Mother country, which considered would not be easy, when pronouncing the speech with the doctrinal foundations.
Confident that the good PRD members would join his cause, Bosch formed a party of cadres structured by agencies, where political formation, the contribution to the finances and an iron discipline prevailed like a priesthood. But everything was eroding since the 1990s when petty-bourgeois groups noticed the leader’s meager strength.
Bosch was defeated as the presidential candidate of the PLD, in all the electoral processes in which he participated from 1978 to 1994. The organization won for the first time in 1996 with Leonel Fernández as a candidate and was again defeated in the 2000 election by bringing Danilo Medina to the ballot.
The golden age of the peledeístas, when nobody already spoke of the boschismo, would really begin in 2004. In the elections of that year the PLD returned to prevail with Fernandez like presidential candidate, who was reelected in the elections of 2008. The enjoyment of the honeys of being able to continue in 2012 with the victory of Medina, who was re-elected in the 2016 elections.
The PLD’s most devastating defeat came last year with the presidential candidacy of businessman Gonzalo Castillo. But previously there had also been its most poignant division, when in October 2019 he resigned its president and one of its two main leaders, former President Fernandez, to found the People’s Force party.
Boschist theory
The PLD had officially adopted Boschism as its theory of action in November 1987, inspired by a general and particular set of principles, analysis, interpretations of historical events, social theses, methods and organizational guidelines of the professor. Joan Bosch, in which he proposes a transformation of Dominican society.
His followers considered that this set of principles has constituted the theoretical foundation that had allowed them to fully know and interpret society in its own characteristics of development of late, dependent, deformed capitalism and an integral part of the third world.
For its approval first it was proposed in the Political Committee, at that time with 5 votes against 4. Later in the Central Committee, with 19 votes in favor and 15 against, and in the end by means of a plebiscite celebrated in the bases, that approved it with a 91.67% of the estates that conformed at that time the PLD.
This theory is manifested in essence against everything that obscurantism, cabdillism, dogmatism, populism, opportunism and improvisation can represent. Or what is the same, a denial of the new reality imposed on PLD structures in recent decades, long before Bosch’s death on November 1, 2001.
The works that give rise to “Boschista” theory; they are pronounced from the Mañosa, following with Dominican Social Composition, Brief History of the Oligarchy, Social Classes in the Dominican Republic, the Small Bourgeoisie in the History of the Dominican Republic and Trujillo, Causes of a Tyranny without Example.
Other works that support Bosch’s theses are The War of Restoration, Dictatorship with Popular Backing, Crisis of American Democracy in the Dominican Republic, The State: Origins and Development, The Party: Conception, Organization, and Development.
All were constituted in obligatory reading of the peledeístas at the romantic time, like the Marxist texts, since they were considered like fundamental prescriptions to know the characteristics the Dominican society and the causes that have generated the underdevelopment. They also offered ways to get out of this state of affairs and achieve a truly free and independent country. Everything was thrown overboard and the ship is in the middle of a storm that is difficult to cross.
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Delicate PLD situation
The PLD is holding its IX Congress José Joaquín Bidó Medina, where the main objective has been a deep renewal of its management at the national level, an extremely complex and difficult task, in the face of resistance from powerful people who succeeded from of power an absolute control of partisan structures and would not be willing to cede their positions to young people who are beginning to venture into politics, when many beards begin to burn in the courts.
Requirements to be a member.
Among the fundamental requirements to be a member of the party were to accept and defend the theory, principles, strategic and tactical objectives of the party, and to comply with and defend the statutes. Also study, submit your life to rules of public and private honesty. Contribute financially to the party and raise funds among friends and supporters of the organization.