“The reality of what is occurring here is that Maduro was willing to die for keeping socialism and Delcy is not.”
So Venezuelans should die in a horrific and (at best) pyrrhic campaign set in the backyard of the Empire, separated miles and miles by ocean from their biggest allies in the form of Russia and China, while their closest ally in the form of Cuba has been choked to near-death for decades since the 90s?
This is a strategic nightmare militarily. You can even see it in regards to the Zaptistas and the FARCs. Despite their best, the current geographic location absolutely does not help them in issues of foreign supply and advisory. Let alone the fact that Venezuela is on the east of the Panama Canal, which is under Comprador control practically. Either that or you go around the fucking continent. It’s a goddamn military nightmare in any form of doctrine. Cuba’s liberation was a real lucky shot (probably because they weren’t strictly Marxist-Leninist until after the revolution), but attempts to recreate such a revolution unfortunately did not go as planned in Bolivia, etc. Vietnam and Korea were literally touching the USSR and PRC, it was easy to organize foreign assistance and supply to these underdeveloped/ravaged places. You cant do that with Venezuela.
If they want to keep socialism instead of putting the proletariat back into capital’s chains? Yes. Doing otherwise is called being a traitor to the proletarian class. There is genuinely nothing else to call it.
[Cuba] weren’t strictly Marxist-Leninist until after the revolution
What do you mean by this? The revolution itself as a broad national liberation struggle of average people led by a vanguard of communists? Or do you mean that Fidel was not a marxist-leninist until after the revolution?
If you mean the latter, there is video of Che disputing it. When an interviewer said to Che that people in the US believe he “pulled Castro left” and that the revolution itself was pulled left by Che pulling the strings behind the throne, Che says otherwise. He says he likes this characterisation but his revolutionary and personal honesty must admit that Castro is “the most leftist man in Cuba and greatest danger to the US”, not himself. I do not believe that Che means this only occurred after the revolution because the interview question is specifically on whether Che pulled Fidel left. I’ve just spent a good deal of time digging up the specific timestamp for this, the question is at 23:01 of this video: https://youtu.be/hau5Rxkw-Wg?t=1375
My firm belief is that the idea they were not communists (and specifically Fidel) before the revolution was simply a clever play that worked to build a broad struggle and to reduce the chance of capitalist powers from intervening. Take note that in the following part where he is asked if Fidel was a communist at the time they met, he also says that he himself was not a communist at that time. I am quite certain they all became communists before the revolution was over, and quite probably had all become or at least flirted with such before it had fully began.
“The reality of what is occurring here is that Maduro was willing to die for keeping socialism and Delcy is not.”
So Venezuelans should die in a horrific and (at best) pyrrhic campaign set in the backyard of the Empire, separated miles and miles by ocean from their biggest allies in the form of Russia and China, while their closest ally in the form of Cuba has been choked to near-death for decades since the 90s?
This is a strategic nightmare militarily. You can even see it in regards to the Zaptistas and the FARCs. Despite their best, the current geographic location absolutely does not help them in issues of foreign supply and advisory. Let alone the fact that Venezuela is on the east of the Panama Canal, which is under Comprador control practically. Either that or you go around the fucking continent. It’s a goddamn military nightmare in any form of doctrine. Cuba’s liberation was a real lucky shot (probably because they weren’t strictly Marxist-Leninist until after the revolution), but attempts to recreate such a revolution unfortunately did not go as planned in Bolivia, etc. Vietnam and Korea were literally touching the USSR and PRC, it was easy to organize foreign assistance and supply to these underdeveloped/ravaged places. You cant do that with Venezuela.
If they want to keep socialism instead of putting the proletariat back into capital’s chains? Yes. Doing otherwise is called being a traitor to the proletarian class. There is genuinely nothing else to call it.
What do you mean by this? The revolution itself as a broad national liberation struggle of average people led by a vanguard of communists? Or do you mean that Fidel was not a marxist-leninist until after the revolution?
If you mean the latter, there is video of Che disputing it. When an interviewer said to Che that people in the US believe he “pulled Castro left” and that the revolution itself was pulled left by Che pulling the strings behind the throne, Che says otherwise. He says he likes this characterisation but his revolutionary and personal honesty must admit that Castro is “the most leftist man in Cuba and greatest danger to the US”, not himself. I do not believe that Che means this only occurred after the revolution because the interview question is specifically on whether Che pulled Fidel left. I’ve just spent a good deal of time digging up the specific timestamp for this, the question is at 23:01 of this video: https://youtu.be/hau5Rxkw-Wg?t=1375
My firm belief is that the idea they were not communists (and specifically Fidel) before the revolution was simply a clever play that worked to build a broad struggle and to reduce the chance of capitalist powers from intervening. Take note that in the following part where he is asked if Fidel was a communist at the time they met, he also says that he himself was not a communist at that time. I am quite certain they all became communists before the revolution was over, and quite probably had all become or at least flirted with such before it had fully began.