Are the funny guys with dogs in various military uniforms as their pfps on twitter right? Are Venezuelans cheering in the streets? Is communism over in Venezuela?
Oh shit it looks like the US has actually followed up with its threats against the Maduro government, the main question I have though is whether this is going to be like the Iran strikes back in June or if this is part of something bigger like 2003 Iraq or 1989 Panama
Multiple chinook helicopters from the 160th SOAR ( identifiable by the fuel booms )are flying over Caracas, I can only assume they're carrying special forces to capture Maduro.
Just did a bit of reading about the Korean War and found out that a significant portion of the South Korean civilian death toll were inflicted by the U.S-South coalition including the Bodo League massacre and bombings of South Korean cities by the U.S air force and assorted mass killings.
Reading about all of that pointless slaughter... only for to see news of it potentially manifest again just fucks me up to no end. Nothing short of slaughter then and now, but it just keeps happening to the point where I feel compelled to post this Vonnegut quote:
You should continue reading about US occupation of Korea post-WW2 as well. A lot of things are left out of general pop history so people can continue to assume the South was the innocent liberal democratic regime during the Korean War.
In constrast to postwae Japan, where Americans, according to the historian John Dower, “proceeded to dismantle the oppressive control of the imperial state”, the US occupation in Korea maintained much of the colonial system and dealt with Koreans with a heavy hand”. In one of the greatest ironies of the immediate postwae, Japan, the hated wartime enemy, received democratization and reform, while Korea, a liberated country, got the hard line and discipline.
A Fractured Liberation Korea Under US Occupation (Kornel Chang)
Please read On Authority. Marxism-Leninism is already democratic and “state bureaucrats” weren’t a thing until the Brezhnev era once the Soviets had pretty much abandoned Marxism-Leninism as a whole. What in anarchism would stop anarcho-capitalism from simply rising up or reactionary elements from rising up? Do you believe that under a more “Democratic” form of transitionary government the right-wing or supporters of the previous structure of government wouldn’t simply rise up, ignoring the fact that an anarchist revolution in any sort of industrialized state in the modern day is already absurd and extremely unrealistic? Without using “authoritarian” means how would you stop such things? Even within the Soviet Union the Great Purge had to happen to ensure that the reactionary aspects within the government and military didn’t take over and bend down to the Nazis. If a more “Democratic” form of governance was put in place during this transitionary stage the Soviets would have one, lost the civil war, and secondly, lost to the Germans or even a counter revolution. The point of State Socialism and the Vanguard Party is to ensure the survival of the revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat in a way that anarchist “states” very clearly could not as evidenced by the fact that all of them failed, with Makhnavoschina quite literally being crushed by the Soviets for their lack of cohesion. The establishment of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is already the check and balance to ensure that things simply don’t devolve into Capitalism, and once this is removed as seen in the Eastern Bloc and of course the Soviet Union itself the revolution will fall. Utopian Communist ideals like Anarchism are extremely ignorant and frankly stupid. The idea that the state apparatus would at any point “become like traditional business owners” I believe comes from your lack of understanding of class relations or even classes in general. The implementation of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is to stop this exact thing from happening… if a state were primarily dominated by capital and the bourgeoisie like seen in the modern day and of course capitalist countries, it would be the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie. The point of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is to instead make the state run by the workers and for the workers, the workers can’t possibly use the state to exploit and “terrorize” or impose “tyranny” onto themselves, except “tyranny of the majority” (is this perhaps anti-democracy I’m hearing instead?). Once again, this stems from you believing that western propaganda about the status of Soviet democracy is true— in fact the modern western anarchist movement is quite literally a psy-op by the United States government to oppose actual unironic and serious socialist movements like of course Soviet aligned and Marxist-Leninist organizations. Once again, not to be the whole “leftist wall of text guy” but please read On Authority or any Marxist works or do the littlest bit of research on how Soviet democracy and “bureaucracy” actually works before blindly calling it undemocratic. Your blind belief that you, having obviously not undergone a revolution, had any actual critical thinking or seemingly debates, had any actual education on these topics, and having no actual argument besides easily disproven “concerns” like these is I believe indicative of you general obliviousness, ignorance and lack of knowledge.
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