Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)— The Venezuelan government reported the deportation of former Minister for Industry and National Production Alex Saab on Saturday, May 16. In a brief statement issued by Venezuela’s Administrative Service of Identification, Migration and Foreigners (SAIME) and shared across official social media channels, authorities specified that the deportation was carried out "in compliance with...
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.
Im pretty sure china can indeed do that presently
Chinese libs: “but at what cost?”
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.