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Fuck, it was that easy? This is so fucking bleak, I can't even put it into words without some kind of proscribed reference to Minecraft
Idk, I'm just so fucking done. The world is totally fucked, and it's not gonna be unfucked in my lifetime
A revolution is not its leader, alone. Maduro is one guy, meanwhile Venezuela is full of a highly organized and very radical proletariat. This isn't over, it's just beginning. Trust that the people of Venezuela can defend their socialist project
I'm just shocked it was so easy, and am very concerned for whoever takes Maduro's place, especially after what the US and its vassals have shown themselves willing to do in the Middle East.
I'm not. People like the Bolivarian Revolution, but they don't really like Maduro all that much, as he has been the country's whipping boy for years now.
Now, I may be completely mistaken and this is just the prelude to a ground invasion or military coup, but I can see the benefit of the creation of a clean break from the Maduro government into an even more radical left wing turn. Maduro, at this point, may serve the state better as a martyr and example of U.S. aggression more than actually as a head of state.
Honestly from my understanding, Maduro did very little actual governing, mostly sticking to public addresses.
If anything the venezualan project might be better off without Maduro. He’s no chavez.
(Not that it makes it right or good that he just got fuckin kidnapped by the yankee dogs)
Yeah, not that kidnapping him is good, but Maduro, as a Martyr, could hello further cohere the Venezuelan proletariat.
That Marx quote about a Revolution needing the Whip of counter-revolution (hopefully) seems appropriate here