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Venezuela Deports Former Minister Alex Saab to the US
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Now I'm sure that post-Maduro Venezuela is completely capitulating to USA, no other way to interpret that.
It wasn’t them redirecting oil to Israel instead of Cuba? Or them opening their markets to US companies and investors? Or them signing up for IMF style structural adjustments and austerity programs?
It’s interesting how hard it is to get communists to see when a socialist state is going full revisionist, considering it’s the number one danger and cause of death of revolutions but so many are blinded to it as it begins. Some kind of denial and psychological defense mechanism maybe? Invested too much into defense of the specific state government instead of the principles of socialism?
The success of China has basically broken the brains of some MLs (Dengists) who believe now that rightwing revisionism is not only fine, but necessary. China was a fluke due to its sovereignty due to size and nukes, combined with the opportunistic timing of absorbing US and Soviet industrial capacity as both mutually deindustrialized at the end of the Cold War. Stop thinking it’s a repeatable model. Other nations won’t be able to handle the forces of imperialist capital as they are too small and will be colonized, as we have always seen in IMF takeovers and neoliberalization. Even China got dangerously close to completely abandoning socialism, we really should not be embracing the “Dengist model” as a standard for general socialist use. It’s a defense mode and retreat and comes with huge risks and costs, and should only be done carefully by powerful large states as a last resort.
The more they give to the US the more the US demands.
It was already very suspicious, but this is completely undeniable proof of capitulation.
It's so disheartening. There's no way to spin handing over your own people, who you not long ago got back in a prisoner swap. You can't say "Free Maduro but imprison this other guy". And the way they lied about why they're doing it. I want to hear what Jorge Arreaza has to say about it.
So depressing. Until China can extend its reach across the globe like the USSR used to be able to do or the US, then it looks like the left in the US's hemisphere is doomed.
Not true at all, they just have to at least engage in struggle against the USA. The US does not have the military capacity to occupy and control the entire American continents.
Look at the general strikes in Bolivia that are causing the neoliberal government to collapse. America can’t do anything about it except complain and sanction, and Bolivia is a tiny country compared to others.
Venezuela was already rotting from the inside and the revolution was never completed, so there were many powerful comprador factions with capital and state influence. A united workers movement throughout South and Central America could not be stopped by the failing empire. It only took one spec op to completely takeover the Venezuelan government, that shows they were weak and on the brink already. Incomplete electoral revolutions are weak though, as they leave powerful reactionary opposition factions in tact that the US can leverage. The revolutions will need to be complete and violent.
the CPC will never do anything good outside their own borders. their project is building a prosperous society in china and the well being of people outside china will never be as important to them as maintaining the status quo in which they're achieving their goals and the US is killing itself. sticking their neck out to help the venezuelas of the world simply doesn't make sense for them
They saw what the empire did to the USSR for trying to export the revolution.
Im pretty sure china can indeed do that presently
Chinese libs: "but at what cost?"
Leftists are the losers of history. The best we can do is just keep going, I guess.
And yet we keep pushing the train of history forward. Throwing our bodies onto the pile, upon which humanity climbs up to the better future.