Honestly, leftists around LATAM are pretty divided. Most of the people around here say the revolution has been betrayed, however some say it was a tactical retreat.
There is a Chavista professor from Venezuela (Luis Bonilla-Molina) that says that since Maduro there has been a re-alignment of PSUV from the working class social base to a more middle class and petty bourgeois strata. This plan to normalize relations with the US is being cooked since the Maduro period and what we see with Delcy is an acceleration of the process.
However, some Marxists/leftists with transit within the Maduro/Delcy government still defend the tactical retreat angle, like Breno Altman and Diego Ruzzarin himself. The thing is, Venezuela wants access to their dollar reserves and want investment in new oil fields and refineries. Even if US is getting privileged access to Venezuelan oil right now, they will only be able to take advantage of Venezuelan oil in the future. Since the crisis in the US is escalating, Venezuela could take advantage of this relief in sanctions and investments later on.
So, most looking from outside are seeing a full betrayal while some people with transit in Delcy’s government talks about retreat. It’s very hard to deal with incomplete information, but IMHO, I’m more aligned with the betrayal POV. I have never seen countries ceding to US imperialism (other than China and Vietnam, which did actual socialist revolutions) and flipping the tables afterwards.
There is a Chavista professor from Venezuela (Luis Bonilla-Molina) that says that since Maduro there has been a re-alignment of PSUV from the working class social base to a more middle class and petty bourgeois strata. This plan to normalize relations with the US is being cooked since the Maduro period and what we see with Delcy is an acceleration of the process.
This to me makes sense and goes beyond some dumb great man theory betrayal narrative. If you seriously consider the implications of a Rodriguez betrayal, Maduro doesn’t look good at all and even implicates him in the betrayal as well.
Rodriguez’s cabinet, which is just Maduro’s cabinet, goes along with the betrayal without a single protest resignation, which means Maduro either is a traitor as well, couldn’t find anyone else within the PSUV who wasn’t also a sellout, or is just really, really stupid. If he couldn’t find anyone else within the PSUV who wasn’t also a sellout, the change in social base would be a good explanation, which would once again implicate Maduro since the shift happened under his tenure. Even the armed communes not rising up to overthrow Rodriguez over her alleged betrayal also implicates Maduro. Either Maduro was incredibly, incredibly stupid and just gave the communes a bunch of shitty Mauser bolt-action rifles or he simply lied about arming the communes because he doesn’t want the communes to have the means of defending themselves from the Venezuelan military.
In a weird way, the insistence of pinning the betrayal on Rodriguez without implicating Maduro is just cope of not wanting to face that their previous support of Maduro as a principled and competent socialist was a mistake. They don’t want to write the apology card to the PCV who were sounding the horn that Maduro betrayed Chavismo and even boycotted the results because they thought Maduro stuffed ballots.
Personally, I’m 70% that this is Venezuela being forced into unequal treaties and 30% that the rot started with Maduro or possibly even Chavez himself.
Honestly, leftists around LATAM are pretty divided. Most of the people around here say the revolution has been betrayed, however some say it was a tactical retreat.
There is a Chavista professor from Venezuela (Luis Bonilla-Molina) that says that since Maduro there has been a re-alignment of PSUV from the working class social base to a more middle class and petty bourgeois strata. This plan to normalize relations with the US is being cooked since the Maduro period and what we see with Delcy is an acceleration of the process.
However, some Marxists/leftists with transit within the Maduro/Delcy government still defend the tactical retreat angle, like Breno Altman and Diego Ruzzarin himself. The thing is, Venezuela wants access to their dollar reserves and want investment in new oil fields and refineries. Even if US is getting privileged access to Venezuelan oil right now, they will only be able to take advantage of Venezuelan oil in the future. Since the crisis in the US is escalating, Venezuela could take advantage of this relief in sanctions and investments later on.
So, most looking from outside are seeing a full betrayal while some people with transit in Delcy’s government talks about retreat. It’s very hard to deal with incomplete information, but IMHO, I’m more aligned with the betrayal POV. I have never seen countries ceding to US imperialism (other than China and Vietnam, which did actual socialist revolutions) and flipping the tables afterwards.
This to me makes sense and goes beyond some dumb great man theory betrayal narrative. If you seriously consider the implications of a Rodriguez betrayal, Maduro doesn’t look good at all and even implicates him in the betrayal as well.
Rodriguez’s cabinet, which is just Maduro’s cabinet, goes along with the betrayal without a single protest resignation, which means Maduro either is a traitor as well, couldn’t find anyone else within the PSUV who wasn’t also a sellout, or is just really, really stupid. If he couldn’t find anyone else within the PSUV who wasn’t also a sellout, the change in social base would be a good explanation, which would once again implicate Maduro since the shift happened under his tenure. Even the armed communes not rising up to overthrow Rodriguez over her alleged betrayal also implicates Maduro. Either Maduro was incredibly, incredibly stupid and just gave the communes a bunch of shitty Mauser bolt-action rifles or he simply lied about arming the communes because he doesn’t want the communes to have the means of defending themselves from the Venezuelan military.
In a weird way, the insistence of pinning the betrayal on Rodriguez without implicating Maduro is just cope of not wanting to face that their previous support of Maduro as a principled and competent socialist was a mistake. They don’t want to write the apology card to the PCV who were sounding the horn that Maduro betrayed Chavismo and even boycotted the results because they thought Maduro stuffed ballots.
Personally, I’m 70% that this is Venezuela being forced into unequal treaties and 30% that the rot started with Maduro or possibly even Chavez himself.