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  • The most dramatic - "Delcy Has Overthrown Chavismo" - is from a Canadian, but he's not exactly a random Venezuela hater. His opinion clearly changed post-1/3; in the immediate aftermath his writing was defending the continuity of Bolivarian power with Rodriguez inheriting office according to constitutional procedure and being a trustworthy figure. The response piece - "Chavismo has not been overthrown; it is wounded" is by the EOC of Anticonquista, who claim to be a diasporic anti-imperialist organizaton, so I don't think on-the-ground Chavistas. It's worth looking at who each of the writers are, because I think the trend you're noting is generally true - criticism is harsher from the outside.

  • to be extra dialectical, @Jabril@hexbear.net were both overreacting and underreacting to your comment

  • Fair

  • That seems unlikely, I read the news mega

  • Good, focus on our own fucking planet.

  • Maybe even viewing it as a step or laying the groundwork is too simplifying and undialectical. It is more like a box drawn arbitrarily around one part of a process that has no clearly defined beginning or end in the long Latin American struggle towards sovereignty and independence from the demonic Amerikkkan empire. Left wing electoral victories never stopped; mass popular mobilizations were never squashed; right wing retrenchment in elections and through corporate consolidation have been ongoing throughout. The revolutionary process is long and complicated and the Pink Tide was just a way to contain and in some ways downplay the genuine victories of the Latin American peoples. Those presidents may have been displaced, but the people never were. All the people of the Andeans have become substantially more capable at asserting their power through a combination of electoral and non-electoral means, and the latter are coming more into focus at this exact moment. A few revolutionary victories will lead to a bigger wave of moderate leftist electoral victories, some portion of which will fall, and a decade from now we'll be talking about how the Pink Tide was impressive for securing socialist governments across half the continent and building up ALBA into a force that successfully repelled the US from Cuba, but it simply laid the groundwork for the unification of South American states about to begin circa 2036.

  • I would argue that the Pink Tide laid the groundwork for a greater wave of socialist victories that is about to begin, as we see in Bolivia. The material and organizational gains of the Venezuelan, Bolivian, and Ecuadorian projects substantially developed the capacity of the people to fight for greater sovereignty and socialism. Colombia is now undergoing that process and will hopefully be able to synthesize the lessons of its neighbors to avoid a reactionary backslide.

  • US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

    Among the documents in the tranche obtained by WIRED is a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that warns of widespread upheaval in response to AI adoption. Of particular note is a novel term for what the bureau purports to be an emerging extremism threat.

    "The chaotic atmosphere that may result from emergent AI technology in the next five years may fuel large-scale protests that devolve into civil unrest and anti-tech violent extremist activity, especially in large urban areas such as New York City," the report reads. The term "anti-tech violent extremism" does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI domestic extremism reports or guides and represents a novel grouping of a wide range of ideologies under a single extremist category.

    more behind the link worth reading

  • Lots of op-eds coming out of Orinoco Tribune, significant Bolivarian news outlet, on the state of Chavismo in the wake of Alex Saab's illegal extradition to the US. There's a wide variety of takes here, ranging from sympathetic and supportive to what is best described as the @InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net revolutionary defeat position. I'm going to post a bunch - the headlines alone say a lot, but they're all worth reading and all raise valid points to support their analysis. Clearly, even among supporters of Rodriguez, confidence is shaken. Some of them are obviously responding to each other.

    Delcy Has Overthrown Chavismo

    Chavismo Has Not Been Overthrown; It Is Wounded

    The Silence Has Been Broken in Venezuela

    The Return of the Repentant Dog: How the Purist Left Judges Venezuela From Afar

    On ‘Betrayals’ and January 3: A Non-Linear Reading

    Alex Saab and the Fragility of the Solidarity Movement

    Venezuela and the Perils of Ceding Sovereignty

    Betrayal in Venezuela

    The Post-January 3 Minefield in Venezuela

    I strongly encourage all comrades to read this collection of pieces with an open and dialectical mind to develop the best understanding of the state of the Bolivarian Revolution, the PSUV, and Venezuelan sovereignty.

  • I bought I light bulb I had to download an app, create and account, and sign in for

  • Some of Texas’s oldest barbecue joints close as meat prices skyrocket

    the treatler empire is failing at perhaps its most fundamental promise: unlimited animal flesh and blood for ritualistic consumption

    Over the past year, that number has risen 28 percent, a reflection of the spiking meat prices that have dented the pocketbooks of average grocery store customers nationwide. Inside the kitchens of Texas's more than 3,000 barbecue purveyors, whose very existence depends on a plentiful and affordable supply of quality beef, the effect has been close to cataclysmal.

    Owners and experts predict the closures will worsen this summer and continue for years, potentially reshaping the nature of Texas barbecue, which has drawn acclaim for its distinct regional varieties and craft-style preparation, winning Michelin stars for what was once considered gas-station fare.

    The reasons for the spiking prices are various, says Emily Williams Knight, president and CEO of the Texas Restaurant Association. Inflation, tariffs, meatpackers' pricing, and a national cattle herd at its smallest in 75 years because of drought, labor shortages, high operational costs and dwindling ranch land have all played a part. And with the threat of screwworm looming just across the border, experts warn that the herd could be even further depleted in years to come.

    Wow, all the causes of this problem are a direct and easily demonstrable result of how the cattle ranching industry works and the politicians they back at all costs? High GHG emissions, destruction of water tables and local water cycles for ranch land, the deportation of the immigrant labor force the industry depends on, monopolization of land and firms? Starting to think the rate of profit might have a tendency to fall

    death to the cattle rancher-settler-industrial complex

  • Marg bar amrika, of course

    Side note: I see they're using the Iranian calendar in the press release. How widely used is it in Iran compared to the Gregorian calendar?

  • because it's not like we can accurately poll organizers

    I can state anecdotally as someone who does a lot of recruitment for my

    branch that he is a major factor in the radicalization process of like 25% of the people I've taken through the process.

  • The Peruvian bougies are watching Bolivia right now and freaking the fuck out

  • Sorry, the wording is a little unclear. They're not going to go do terrorism, at least at the moment?

  • he's getting it (mostly) right starting from very different assumptions than the a-religious/pluralist left.

    A very important lesson I've learned recently is that although dialectical materialism is the best path to discovering the truth of things,

    A) DiaMat itself emerges dialectically from interaction with past and present intellectual, spiritual, philosophical, and scientific frameworks

    B) Those other frameworks, even the most spiritual and idealistic, are still capable of discovering real and useful truth

  • Dialectical Pope!!!!

  • It is the classic model of American liberation