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Finally. Some real Marxist analysis. Haven't seen one of these in a while.
Ill take time to digest your nice response.
To answer your question, I work at a public company in Venezuela and we had to attend a conference by a government official about the Russian war on Ukraine. This was barely like 2 or 3 weeks after the war started.
This guy started getting closer and closer to the Jewish Question, and ended up naming "The Jews" at the center of this conspiracy theories to justify why Russia had to invade Ukraine. I had to text everybody I personally knew at the conference to tell them "dont let him bullshit you, this is straight up Nazi talking points" and we discussed it after everything ended.
Feel free to come back if you disagree. I'm happy to talk these ideas through.
Have you spent much time on Lemmygrad? There's quite a bit of Marxist analysis over there.
I would not have expected the conference to be in Venezuela! This is why I don't like to make assumptions. I thought you were going to say you had attended an academic conference somewhere in the west.
Could you link me to any websites that will give me a better picture of Venezuela (or Latin America in general)? I started reading Telesur and found one resource – the Simón Bolívar institute – from this video (at 1:27:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iapefs8EXCc&list=PLQFBO6UUfDCQoIxtdxX5dVRwl1kS9IhnV&index=7. If you know of any other good resources, I would be grateful. It could be blogs, local news websites, 'independent' publishing. I would prefer websites written in Spanish, as I can then improve my Spanish as I'm learning. Even better if they're Marxists.
Im not on lemmygrad often.
The left in Venezuela is kinda fucked. There is almost no Marxist discussion in Venezuela anymore, and the PSUV now is kinda outlawing the communist party.
Right now the mainstream Left in Venezuela feels like 1960s Cuban Revolution from Aliexpress. There is almost no intelectual discussion anymore, its all propaganda, it is extremely homophobic and Russia/China/Iran loving, and USA bad without explaining why USA bad.