On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 06:55 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 01:16 AM, Fred Fuentes wrote: > >> That is why every single left minister in Chavez's cabinet is today in >> opposition to the government. It is why all the leftwing parties are in >> opposition to the government... Pretending that the Maduro government in >> anyway is progressive, let alone socialist, makes it both harder to >> campaign against the sanctions and for a left-wing alternative in >> imperialist countries and in Venezuela. > > I agree, but the only immediate alternative to Maduro is a pro-imperialist > government to its right. On the other hand, there is a strong argument to > be made that governments popularly identified with the left should resign > and campaign against - rather than impose - austerity as, for example, > should have happened in Greece in 2015 after the August referendum, and is > an option facing the governments in Venezuela and even Cuba today. Not an > easy choice by any means Where does the left opposition to the Maduro > government stand on this question? > >
Marv, I wonder why you think the Maduro government should have voluntarily handed over power after winning an election to campaign in opposition against austerity, but now believe -- after the Maduro government has implemented a macroeconomic stabilisation program that makes the programs implemented by rightwing governments in the '80s and 90s in South America look progressive --- that the right course for the left is to argue that Maduro should hold onto power as a rightwing dictatorship having almost certainly lost the recent elections in order to block the right? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33221): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33221 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109123065/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
