Gojkor, My point about Venezuela,and the other countries ,was not that they were some kind of worker's paradise, but simply that they were more democratic, and more worker-friendly, than any country in the global north.
I am aware Rosa Luxembourg was writing to Lenin about the situation in Russia, but I believe it is just as applicable to the USA, as it is to pre-revolutionary Russia, China, Vietnam, etc. Oligarchy is oligarchy, whether that oligarchy, wether that oligarchy be rooted in capitalism, or a hereditary monarchy. It all comes down to class oppression. The writers you link to from Jacobin and VenezuelaAnalysis, seem to suffer from the classic problem of the left of rejecting the good ,in pursuit of the perfect. Considering the support Maduro has from the Venezuelean people, he is obviously doing something right. No, we no longer have the old school manufacturing economy Marx was writing about, but I would argue workers are in a worse situation than they were 100-150 years ago, when the US was a world leader in manufacturing. Workers at Wal-Mart, or Amazon. Fast food workers, gig economy workers, etc. Every word Marx ever wrote is equally applicable to these workers. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7225): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7225 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80900386/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
