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I call this story, The Tragedy of the Boy Who Cried No Wolf.

*sad trombone noises*

Brendanicus/Yuri-Aleksey seems to have deactivated or changed his blog name, but I'll NEVAR forget his dumb ass.

Incidentally, if Yuri had ever bothered to read something other than what his party propaganda, he might have possibly learned that the Ukraine and Russia both want the Donbas because it's been a coal-mining region and a center of heavy industry since at least the reign of Alexander II.

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What are your criticisms of Chavismo and Maduro just out of curiosity?

now i'd like to preface this with a disclaimer that any opposition ghoul would do nothing but sell the country out to the USA and UK every which way in a heartbeat--maduro is better than any alternative, whether that's guaidó or whichever neoliberal puppet they prop up to replace him.

anyway, there were two key problems with chavismo. firstly, it's fundamentally a national-bourgeois led social democratic movement. obviously in an imperialized country like venezuela this made it profoundly progressive, and the achievments of the bolivarian revolution were incredible--chávez cut malnutrition in half, cut unemployment in half, sent millions of children to school and gave millions of elderly people pensions. however, this project of wealth distribution ultimately had to accomodate the national bourgeoisie. which of course on one hand you can argue was completely necessary, but on the other hand allowed the parasitic classes to entrench themselves firmly within elements of the state apparatus and made chavismo as a project entirely incapable of confronting the national bourgeoisie or corruption.

these of course are the realities of 'democratic socialism', of sweeping a socialist into office in a bourgeoise democracy. through some extremely clever political structures, such as the new constitution, communes, and bolicarian circles--he was able to move much more radically than most in his position. but ultimately, he could not escape the fundamental limits of the source and constraints of his power.

the second is that--and this is a very tawdry and obvious piece of analysis--while it is of course admirable and correct that he seized the nation's oil wealth and enriched the country with it--the way he did it was obviously shortsighted. without a sovereign wealth fund, worker's democratic control of the oil industry, or a solid and far-ranging investment plan, he laid the groundwork for some of the current crisis on the assumption that oil prices would stay high forever.

maduro inherited these faults and added far more of his own. during the crisis that began in earnest in 2016, the other shoe dropped wrt oil prices at the same time as the US tightened their murderous sanctions regime. faced with economic crisis, maduro has broadly chosen to move from chávez' strategy of accomodation with the national bourgeoisie to a full on alliance. social programs have been slashed, pensions cut, wages have plummeted, and worst of all, maduro has sold off countless state enterprises in the hope that oft-prayed to benevolent deity, "foreign capital" would miraculously heal the economy. in the course of this he made an enemy of many early chavistas, as well as the leftmost wing of chávez' coalition -- he has mobilized the full force of the bourgeois state against the country's communist party and other genuinely revolutionary movements, most gallingly the marxist-leninist movimiento tupamaro.

so, tldr: chavismo was genuinely radical compared to even your average third-world social democracy--however it remained fundamentally constrained in what it could accomplish by the lack of an actual proletarian state, was unable to rid itself of reliance on the national bourgeoisie for that same reason, and made some very avoidable mistakes in the handling of the nation's oil wealth--maduro inherited those flaws but has been much more accomodating to both national and international capitalists to the detriment of the people of venezuela.

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Can you guys stop reblogging brendanicus already? Please? I know we're critical of callout posts around here, but this is a guy who has openly said that he thinks westsplaining isn't real, implied the Jina protests in Iran were a CIA colour revolution, called "listening to X voices" reactionary, promotes Russian propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine, and denies the Uyghur genocide. There's screenshots of all this stuff floating around if you know where to look, or you could just search his blog for what he has to say about this stuff and see for yourself.

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>gay romance show

>>probably aimed at LGBT folks

>heteronormative

Huh?

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Tankie blocklist update: Brendumbicus has changed their url to yuri-alexseygaybitch

Thanks for the update!

Everyone, Brendanicus is now yuri-alekseygaybitch

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If part of your party's propaganda is to focus on Ukrainian nazis when Russian minister Lavrov is out here being openly anti-semitic, it really says a whole lot about you T-T And that's only the tip of the iceberg with this guy.

Everyone please block this clown if you haven't already, he is by far the biggest scum I have seen on this app yet.

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I see you in my notes every once in a while and always think you're a megachud cause of your pfp. You do you but also maybe consider changing it? Lol

hate that i literally predicted this (not about you specifically) the other day lmao

i'm mostly joking in the sentiment of refusing to give up using pepe as a meme & my icon on here but i've had this as my icon since before the alt-right & other nazis started using him. i'm being hyperbolic in the above screenshot but i'm also not interested in ceding anything to nazis, even if it's something as infinitesimal as a frog meme. like my political action doesn't start & end there but this dumb frog picture has been the spirit of my blog since literally 2013/2014.

partially i'm also not in a rush to change it because if someone were to spend 5 seconds looking at my blog, they'd see that i'm not even remotely affiliated with those groups.

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