CatratchoPalestino

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[–] CatratchoPalestino@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago (15 children)

you’re using the term monroe doctrine pretty willy-nilly. it was a doctrine opposing imperial powers that weren’t america influencing latin america not to assist other imperial powers to divide up latin america. even still what does a treaty written up by the spanish empire have to do with whether or not venezuela is justified in starting a war. that’s like definitionally an imperialist war between venezuela and guyana. if americans had a referendum to annex canada to oppose british imperialism i’d also question the socialistic nature of that too

[–] CatratchoPalestino@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago (13 children)

I don’t think either call it hegemonism that’s a chinese thing and even then there’s a big leap going from hegemonism to imperial core

[–] CatratchoPalestino@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago (11 children)

I’m not upset seeing people opposed to america meddling in other countries affairs. I think america meddling in other countries affairs is both bad for other countries short term and bad for america long term. I’m opposed to assuming that because a country appears to have a government nominally opposed to the united states it’s for the working class movement. this ideology has its roots in american trotskyist parties in the 60s like the worker’s world party and it’s global class war line. I consider my own government or the pedro castillo government to be better than the opposition by a large margin but I don’t consider either to be good

[–] CatratchoPalestino@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago (17 children)

I’m not south american and can’t speak to how good an ideology bolívarianism is. I only know a war over some empty jungles to support some nationalist claim to land doesn’t help the workers in either country. and that the communist party in venezuela doesn’t back maduro and considers him a rentier capitalist sitting on oil while the workers can barely afford bread

[–] CatratchoPalestino@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago (16 children)

see I’m gonna trust lenin and marx over a yale and colombia professor who only has ties to the british. zero ML countries adhere to world-systems theory and for good reasons

[–] CatratchoPalestino@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (30 children)

I don’t have access to their correspondence but I’m gonna assume Áñez wanted power and opposed Evos reforms, the OAS didn’t want to see reduced exports and political power entrenchment, and Exxon probably donated a fair amount of money to allow economic liberalization to take place. I hope you realize people in our own countries have their own thoughts and motivations and aren’t just automatons that do what the CIA says. the coup in my own country was done by military generals upset over having their airbases turned over to civilian use as an example

[–] CatratchoPalestino@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (32 children)

the resources are taken away from the individual owners ownership wise which sucks for those individual capitalists but aren’t taken away from the world market. the commodity relationship remains intact making it not against the west

[–] CatratchoPalestino@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago (18 children)

you need to reread lenin he never said anything about “imperial core” that’s just stuff made up by wallerstein called world-systems theory and is neither leninist or marxist

[–] CatratchoPalestino@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago (20 children)

neither is maduro are you gonna say maduro isn’t beloved as a “resister against the imperial core”

[–] CatratchoPalestino@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago (34 children)

the united states arrested our former president letting the democratic socialist take power lmao. you’re naive if you think demsocs actually oppose this “hegemony of the imperial core” whatever that would look like in practice

[–] CatratchoPalestino@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago (37 children)

communism is internationalist. it’s about supporting the proletarians of the world not supporting some in some countries and supporting capitalists in others. this is the basic amount of solidarity to be expected from comrades

[–] CatratchoPalestino@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (100 children)

yours is not the only one captivated. mine and many across latin america are so captivated we actually elect these people to power lol. it’s fine anyway since I selfishly want the government in iran to remain in power long enough to kill israel you can selfishly want the anti-american governments to stay in power to oppose your country. also honduras is a western country too lmao

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