What gave you the idea that I’m dismissing them?

You, you said "Russian-style authoritarian oligarchy, Islamofascism, or a Venezuela-style “socialism” in which the narrative only focuses on poverty."

This is blatantly false. And you don't even know what the alternatives are or aren't. Russia isn't an systemic alternative, it's the very same capitalist as in west, just 100 years late and too late to develop imperialism, it's only a political alternative which forced them, after over 2 decades of trying to join the capitalist core, to finally oppose it. Islamofascism is such a fucking blatant Bush-era propaganda that i won't even comment on that nonsense. Venezuela don't even have socialism, again it's not an alternative, it's a capitalist economy which was forced into politically opposing capitalist core because of over century of brutal exploitation by that core.

All three examples your presented are the same narration (even more extreme in case of islam) than the billionaire owned western media oligopoly and their political arms like US DoS spreads. You don't try to know more (some of examples are in this very thread, and the actual alternatives like China too), you dismiss them in the exact manner the capitalist core ruling class wants you.