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The attempted coup d’état in Venezuela was orchestrated by the U.S. Department of State. This imperialist offensive is part of the Trump administration’s shift in U.S. policy toward Latin America. We need a massive anti-imperialist campaign against this. A revolutionary policy for the situation in Venezuela must be based on the understanding that an imperialist country is orchestrating a right-wing coup in a country that is oppressed by imperialism. This is not about “authoritarianism vs. democracy,” as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently put it <https://www.leftvoice.org/bernie-sanders-ocasio-cortez-legitimize-regime-change-in-venezuela>. Imperialist countries always talk about “democracy” when intervening in semicolonies. The revolutionary, anticapitalist and anti-imperialist left must side with the oppressed country against the oppressor country, regardless of the regime that exists in the oppressed country. For example, Saddam Hussein led a regime in Iraq that was much more repressive than Maduro’s, yet all the anti-imperialists of the world mobilized against the invasions of Iraq, first in 1991 and then in 2003... Read full article: https://www.leftvoice.org/the-monroe-doctrine-in-venezuela-and-the-necessity-of-an-anti-imperialist-position _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
