In order to maintain the dictatorship of the proletariat one must first have a dictatorship of the proletariat. What is the point of a national bourgeois reformist party continuing to hold power if they no longer further the interests of the nation?

They deserved critical support insofar as the national bourgeois PSUV continued to resist imperialism, but if they flip and instead aid imperialism then what is their utility to us? Why should we critically support them any longer?

[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

In retrospect the Bolivarian Revolution was always more of a left wing nationalist and Bonapartist politicial project than a social revolution from below. Perhaps things were heading in the latter direction and their system was hollowed out by sanctions but it speaks to a core weakness and "top-heaviness" if a revolutionary movement can be defeated via a decapitation and palace coup like this