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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago

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[–] transending_the_binary@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 hours ago (11 children)

He is an authoritarien and the country went to shit.

Venezuela is not a nice place to live in.

Maduro is a corrupt dictator, trump aswell and the current opposition to maduro most likely will just be an authoritarian and fascist pupped goverment that will act in the USAs interest. So yeah multible things can be true at once, just because a nation is opposed to the american empire does not mean that it is automaticallly good.

Its quite sad to see that some terminally online leftist just automaticly replace siding with the imperialist systems that there born into( USA, EU Australia etc.) And just replace that with other imperial powers like russia and china.

Like why?? How about not bootlicking authoritarians?

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 15 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Tell us what a non-authoritarian leader of Venezuela would look like to you and how they would resist the constant pressure and hostile actions of the US government, because it seems to me that leftist leaders are always denounced as authoritarian by North American and European based NGOs and governments.

The only way to avoid being labelled as authoritarian is to be friendly to the imperial core countries, i.e. being capitalist.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 hours ago

👆If you don’t suppress the inevitable imperial-supported bourgeois counterinsurgencies, your socialist project will go the way of Allende’s Chile.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Its quite sad to see that some terminally online leftist just automaticly replace siding with the imperialist systems that there born into

That's not what we’re doing; that’s what intellectually incurious imperial core labor aristocrats think we’re doing.

How about not bootlicking authoritarians?

We need to talk about “authoritarianism”

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 hours ago (17 children)

Under Maduro, Venezuelan communes and participatory democracy is flourishing. In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication. I'm not sure on what basis you distrust him so much, Venezuela is building socialism under Maduro from the bottom-up, and Maduro is doing his part from the top.

Venezuela is a developing country, that is developing despite the US Empire's best efforts. It is regularly improving, which is why the working classes support Maduro.

Russia isn't imperialist, it has no colonies nor neocolonies, and a tiny amount of global financial capital. China isn't imperialist either, it's a socialist country wituout any financial domination of the state or economy. There's no mechanisms pushing for imperialism within China, and this manifests in regular south-south trade leading to development of global south countries when trading with China, unlike the unequal exchange of trade with the west where the west charges monopoly prices for tech and places compradors in power to prevent industrial development.

Multiple things are true, correct. This isn't the grand own you think it is, though. You're passively parroting imperialist narratives.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Man i remember when I was a "damn, the US and it's enemies are both evil" guy. I thought i was done thinking about the world

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 hours ago

And we thought we were so enlightened. This is the last layer of the imperial core propaganda onion: that the “other side” is no better, which leads to apathy and disengagement.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Most of us have been at that stage, especially if we grew up in the west. I certainly was, no doubt about that. I try to do my best to correct that former behavior now that I know better. Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of "Brainwashing" remains critical reading.

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[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 hours ago

They look like the press kit for one of those Million Dollar Skank-off romance-game-shows. I assume Thursdays at 9, next day on Paramount Plus?

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