It also demonstrates bravery to the people, shores up the popularity of the Bolivarian Revolution, and allows Maduro to lead more effectively by remaining close to the people.

Uh oh

It has never been more important to understand and defend the Bolivarian Revolution than right now

They’re probably not going to hit Maduro with the knife missile during a public rally. It would be the worst possible way to kill him and achieve none of their objectives while making him an incredibly powerful martyr.

I actually think a big public setting is one of the safest places to be. Blowing up a massive rally covered in video cameras is not a strategically sound move for the US.

It’s actually just a bunch of Indian trots, though

Greens

And it appears that China has surrendered nothing to achieve it; the US has just accepted defeat

Yeah but what if I love industrialized charnel houses?

Q: “what’s wrong with ukraine?”

A: “mao launched the cultural revolution because china is an ancient civilization”

the question is, how are you going to root out the reactionary elements in a socialist society?

So far, nobody has managed that, and nobody seems to have a solution that worked.

You can’t do it until you progress to a further stage of socialism where you begin to abolish wage labor and commodity production. The closest figuring out how so far is the communal movement in Venezuela. See “Commune or Nothing” by Chris Gilbert.

Traditionally a very politically stabilizing move, conscription during an economic downturn

Ok

It would be 30% longer and 40% less coherent

Aligns well with my comment about the political war on Venezuela. The US is capable of strategic draw down from the world stage - it’s been done before under Nixon. That was done in parallel with crippling Latin America and the Caribbean in order to regather strength for a reemergence as global hegemon. My hope is that the US’s strength and influence over LatAm is less in its favor than it was in the 70s, when it really could just coup anyone at will in South America. It’s struggling to do so with rowdy anti-imperialists in the major Latin American governments, which I contribute primarily to China supplanting the US as economic hegemon. The USSR was never able to have anywhere near the power in LatAm that the PRC does now - political and military support was never as good as trade and development AND it drew way more heat from the empire.

What the US didn’t have to do in the 70s was large scale war in LatAm. Knock down a few small countries, sure, but mostly you can just get comprador militaries to coup leftists. It’s hard to see that working in Brazil or Venezuela. So if the US really wants to clear the way, it has to get its hands much dirtier than it would really like to, because war comes at such a massive cost domestically and abroad, all for a relatively low chance of achieving its aims. Are they really willing to do what it would take to bring down Maduro? If you ask me, anything less than a full blown invasion won’t cut it. And a full blown invasion is no cake walk. They lost in Vietnam, and there they had a comprador government running half the country and the draft. Who are America’s friends on the ground in Venezuela? Some former oligarch freaks? There’s no cartels, no right wing death squads, no fascist street movement, no military traitors.

If it makes you feel any better no American President could have prevented this

Thank God, I was so worried the tech and media capitalists weren’t making sufficient progress in monopolization. This is a huge relief!

Only in the Americas can the dragon be slain for good

Not as many as you think. Runes are cool looking. Thinking Vikings are aesthetically cool is by no means a Nazi phenomena. I wouldn’t worry about it unless there are some other indicators.

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