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My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by hamid@crazypeople.online to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Venezuelan communes and participatory democracy is flourishing. In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication

I think this really needs to be stressed. Venezuela is a country building Socialism. Maduro and the PSUV is in power because of a genuinely incredible mass movement of communes, neighborhood committees, and other organs of grassroots democracy. This is qualitatively different from say, any of the Gulf oil monarchies

I highly recommend the books Building The Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela, and Commune or Nothing: Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project, for a look at these aspects of Venezuelan politics, because it's often papered over in discussions about the country.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 days ago

Absolutely. Venezuela is genuinely what self-described demsocs want, the Empire just doesn't care and will kill you regardless of how procedural and by international law your socialism is.