Why Cant the U.S. Left Get Venezuela Right?

[Judi Lynn]

JULY 13, 2017
by SHAMUS COOKE


As Venezuela’s fascist-minded oligarchy conspires with U.S. imperialism to overthrow the democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro, few in the U.S. seem to care.

Instead of denouncing rightwing violence that aims at regime change, many on the U.S. left have stayed silent, or opted to give an evenhanded analysis that supports neither the Maduro government nor the oligarchy trying to violently overthrow it. Rather, the left prioritizes its energy on lecturing on Maduro’s “authoritarianism” and the failures of “Chavismo.”

This approach allows leftists a cool emotional detachment to the fate of the poor in Venezuela, and clean hands that would otherwise be soiled by engaging with the messy, real life class struggle that is the Venezuelan revolution.

A “pox on both houses” analysis omits the U.S. government’s role in collaborating with Venezuela’s oligarchs. The decades-long crimes of imperialism against Venezuela is aided and abetted by the silence of the left, or by its murky analysis that minimizes the perpetrator’s actions, focusing negative attention on the victim precisely at the moment of attack.

More:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/13/why-cant-the-u-s-left-get-venezuela-right-2/

[COLGATE4]

1. The US doesn't have to 'conspire to overthrow' Maduro. He's managing

to do it all by himself.

[Marksman_91]

2. Why do you continue posting baloney from Counterpunch?

They're like the Infowars of the left. Anyone who has enough brains knows that the Chavista regime is a disaster and a narcototalitarian state, something that apparently you seem to not realize or admit to yet.