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Just for the record, here is an idealised version of how Venezuela’s “socialism of the 21st century” is meant to be a peaceful transition to “socialism” based on popular, local communes:
Of course real power rests in the hands of the chavist political and military bureaucracy. But at least they are not Leninist and are not claiming to be Marxist.
There are a lot of worker communes in Venezuela. It is going to be hard for the US to take control of them. It is not In and Out Many of them are part of the milicias
This article by Michael Roberts is quite good on why Chavism failed. The price of oil fell.
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1568/their-days-were-numbered/
Yes, Venezuela’s reliance on oil made the economy extremely vulnerable, but that is a feature of capitalism, not a failure of “socialism.” The Bolivarian government never abolished capitalism — manufacturing, markets, wages, and private property largely remained. Under capitalism, no state can truly be independent: investment, trade, and revenue are dictated by global markets and profit. True economic autonomy and stability would only be possible if the working class collectively controlled production, investment, and trade — not under any capitalist elite, however nationalistic or left-leaning. The crisis shows the limits of reforming capitalism, not of socialism itself.
The new president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, is bending over to the director of the CIA even though the CIA operation in Venezuela killed more than 100 people, including Maduro’s bodyguard, who were Cubans.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-32-bodies-repatriated-us-venezuela-killed-ae6597fff284a2e87a422d968eb765e5It looks like they also wanted to get rid of Nicolas Maduro to enrich themselves, too. What kept Maduro in power was the support of the military, which enjoyed many privileges similar to those of the military forces in other Latin American countries.
Joaquin Balaguer used a different tactic; he did not enrich himself, but he loved power, and he kept military fighting against each other and never kept the high hierarchy in the same office for a long time, and he let them get rich, and he always said that corruption stops at the door of his office by the meantime all the leftwingers leaders and groups were killed and vanished. ( Chapeo operation, or mowing the lawn )
He was so Machiavellian that in his speeches, he always mentioned Lenin, and he was a highly educated intellectual, different from Nicolas Maduro, who was not an intellectual, but Hugo Chavez read Marx, Engels, Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, Gramsci, and Mao, and he asked workers to read them until Marx’s letter against simom bolivar was published ( The Latin American Napoleón )
According to a new report, Delcy Rodriguez was also under the DEA radar for several years, but she is the favorite candidate of the USA; therefore, drug trafficking was not the problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Antonio_Rodríguez. Delcy Rodriguez’s father was a left-wing activist
Several Colombian presidents have been drug dealers, and they were friends and allies of the USA government. Trump pardoned one of the biggest Latin American drug dealers.
The last biggest shipment of drugs captured in Miami was sent from the Dominican Republic, but the USA has just installed a military base, and they are extracting rare earth from the island close to the border with Haiti.
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