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Why Can't the U.S. Left Get Venezuela Right?
Cooke, Shamus http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/13/why-cant-the-u-s-left-get-venezuela-right-2/
Publisher: Counter Punch
Date Written: 13/07/2017
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Article
As Venezuela's fascist-minded oligarchy conspires with U.S. imperialism to overthrow the democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro, few in the U.S. seem to care.
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Instead of denouncing rightwing violence that aims at regime change, many on the U.S. left have stayed silent, or opted to give an evenhanded analysis that supports neither the Maduro government nor the oligarchy trying to violently overthrow it. Rather, the left prioritizes its energy on lecturing on Maduro's "authoritarianism" and the failures of "Chavismo."
This approach allows leftists a cool emotional detachment to the fate of the poor in Venezuela, and clean hands that would otherwise be soiled by engaging with the messy, real life class struggle that is the Venezuelan revolution.
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