English / Spanish Venezuela. Rebirth and Electoral Victory of the Communist Party By Thierry Deronne, Venezuelainfos For some years now, militants from all over the world have frequently received communiqués signed “Communist Party of Venezuela” denouncing “the neoliberal regime of Maduro, which persecutes communists, represses workers, crushes wages and sows terror among the working classes […]
It comes up with unbelievable frequency because the first reaction from radlibs or unequal exchange nerds to hearing from a dependency theory based perspective of international relations that actually incorporates debt and institutions instead of just particular trade metrics -something more than the boring Mearsheimer tier shit - is to accuse you of being ACP/MWM shills or Russia/Dugin agents (reflecting the Russiagate obsession with him as “Putin’s Rasputin”). Crazy bc in that situation I’m not the Heideggerian calling for the worship of the US reactionary working class + petty boug + labor aristocracy + national boug & tailism for a US political party it’s them. These parties have huge overlap with the alt media and the larouche ppl
Disturbing how social media has churned out these people who immediately associate antiimperialist analysis (usually from writers in the global south & in the same tradition) with insane reality show heel characters they heard abt from streamers who feed them right wing ragebait 24/7. It comes up too often it’s creepy. Robert Evans and Zizek stans crawling out of the walls at any opportunity. Whatever at least people stopped talking abojt the stupid Hegelian e-girls
For books you want https://annas-archive.se/ they also mirrored & continued the now frozen scihub btw
Sweet, thanks, I bookmarked that site.
Yeah, there’s a whole gamut of online diversions, sometimes it feels like you’re playing a platformer avoiding all the traps and spikes. But in truth, they’re more like snares and shadow plays to get you caught up in a Plato’s cave, fighting with strawmen, and not advancing towards Marxism-Leninism. If you’re not here, ideologically, you’ve been ensnared, and your energy is being diverted into meaningless chatter. That’s why what you mentioned earlier is important, that we need more rigorous Marxist critics. I guess that’s what Tricontinental, the IMG, CTW, and other great orgs and channels do.
There’s a realization spreading now in the Global South that we need our own tech, and not to rely on Western, mainly US, tech. I bring this up, cause sometimes either we overestimate online activity or we underestimate it, thinking that real, on the ground organizing is most important. It is at the end of the day, but we spend time simultaneously in both spaces. So we go back to your call, and I wanted to tie that with the pursuit of sovereign tech, because as we’ve seen with Venezuela, the right has total control of online space. Chavismo has always had a presence online but because the US has Meta and Twitter, they’re minimized, shadow banned, etc. So we need our own tools to quell theirs. This can only be done under revolution, like China did. We have to build platforms independent from US meddling. It is a matter of national security in the world today, specially for our AES comrades.
Tricontinental and geopol econ (ben norton) breakthrough news etc have some sketchy history around reporting on the dirty war in Syria but overall I agree with what you’re saying. Losurdo and Rockhill don’t have 100% perfect takes either but unlike most writers their work actually prepares you to deal with that 😁
Frightening how much older all these ppl are there is just nothing going on in the US other than imitation of stale tactics AFAIK.