The dinosaurs that make up the vanguard of leftist thought have no interest in addressing the corruption and repression of Cuba’s socialist puppet dictatorship in Venezuela. These people are still living in their Jurassic utopia where communism has not destroyed nations, murdered over 100-million people, and the philosophy of Marx and Engels “has never really been tried.” As expected, they are completely oblivious to the extinction-level event taking place in Venezuela.
Clifton Ross in Caracas Chronicles:
The Jurassic Left Doubles down on Maduro
If you thought people on the Left had already lost heart and given up on the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela, think again. Right now, we’re in the middle of the “Emergency Days of Action to Stop US Intervention in Venezuela.”
“The corporate media – the voice of the Pentagon and White House – has set up an international campaign of blatant lies that try to present the terrorist actions of the fascist hoards [sic] as repression from the Revolutionary Government,” the campaign website helpfully explains. “The truth is that these terrorist acts are directed against state’s buildings and agencies and against the supporters of the revolution. The aim of these protests is to create chaos to declare a ‘humanitarian crisis’ and demand US intervention.”
Who talks like this anymore? The International Action Center (IAC) does. It comes out of the revolutionary communist Worker’s World Party (WWP), both of which are connected to the founding of the International A.N.S.W.E.R. organization (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism).
If you’re tempted to think these are just tiny millenarian communist cults, think again. Early in the last decade, A.N.S.W.E.R. organized some of the largest demonstrations against the Iraq war, and International Action Center continues to be a central hub of left-wing activity in major US cities.
That such groups well into the 21st century could be called “progressive” is oxymoronic. They’re living fossils from a bipolar world – remnants from the Cold War when the CIA and theKGB each went around toppling governments in their enemy’s sphere of influence. You remember the Cold War, right? Half of you won’t — folks born after, say, 1982 can hardly be expected to. But some dinosaurs are reputed to have extraordinary memories despite their utter obliviousness to present reality.
For many on the younger Left that came up post-Cold War, this paleolithic Left is no mere oddity. They show up to “be the vanguard” at demonstrations and “lead” the marches. Another glaring irony: this utterly retrograde, backward-looking left seems to feel it owns its place at the head of the parade.
Then there’s this left’s perspective regardingthe current uprising in Venezuela. Insinuating it is a result of “US intervention” removes all agency from the Venezuelan people and imposes a frame as patronizing as anything the imperialists could come up with. Young people in Venezuela take their lives in their hands – they face heavily armed agents of state violence, they get rounded up and imprisoned en masse, when not wounded or out-right killed to fight for what they believe – but none of it matters, because their ideas and thoughts, their very existence as autonomous beings able to think and act for themselves is erased, in one bold stroke, with one brain-dead accusation: imperialists! This is the “white man’s burden” turned on its head.
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