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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Essequibo: Annexation vs Incorporartion

"Annexation vs. Incorporation

Mainstream media has also launched a campaign alleging military skirmishes on the border of Venezuela and the Essequibo territory, including accusations of imminent annexation of the disputed territory by Venezuela. The campaign is clearly promoted by US mainstream media. According to Orinoco Tribune Editor Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza, many Western leftists have fallen into the trap of this narrative.

“The fact is that Venezuela is not the aggressor state in this dilemma,” said Rodríguez-Espinoza. “Guyana is by not recognizing the 1966 Geneva Agreement, with its recurrent military drills and high-level visits of US Southern Command officials to Guyana, its active participation in the extinct Lima Group aiming to isolate Venezuela diplomatically, the granting of oil concessions in waters that are not even part of the dispute and belong to Venezuela, with the arrogant position of Guyanese President Irfaan Ali rejecting multiple calls by President Maduro to resolve the issue using diplomatic means.”

“No one in Venezuela is talking about annexation or military aggression against Guyana,” he added. “No one is doing that. But the international campaign outside Venezuela is pushing in that direction, and that is very troublesome. The referendum is to symbolically incorporate the territory as another state and initiate plans to grant social services and Venezuelan citizenship to those living in the area. This is the most diplomatic and peaceful tool to begin exercising sovereignty over a territory that Venezuela has proven, with documents, belongs to it.”

The Venezuelan analyst and Orinoco Tribune editor also added that US mainstream media and the White House are trying to portray the recent Essequibo escalation and the referendum as an attempt by President Maduro to distract from economic problems and the opposition primaries. In reality—according to Rodríguez-Espinoza—the Venezuelan economy is recovering at a steady rhythm, and there is a positive attitude among Venezuelans regarding economic prospects. Meanwhile, few Venezuelans paid much attention to the opposition primaries, as the low turnout numbers demonstrated."

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Support Guyana sovereignty” 🤡

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ya Allah Latina Womxn Ultraviolence 😍 mi amor

/jokesadpain

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Imperialist Cultural Offensive:

"In analyzing a society and deriving its laws of motion, Marxism proceeds by studying its economic base, then also its superstructure (politics and culture) both in their particularity and in their interaction. The class that controls the economic base and appropriates the surplus product is the determinant factor in the long run, producing its own framework of political rule and dominant cultural precepts.

As Marx aptly said in The German Ideology:

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. … Insofar, therefore, as they rule as a class and determine the extent and compass of an epoch, it is self-evident that they do this in its whole range, hence among other things rule also as thinkers, as producers of ideas, and regulate the production and distribution of the ideas of their age: thus their ideas are the ruling ideas of the epoch.

However, the superstructure can become crucial in intensifying contradictions within the economic base or in breaking deadlocks towards resolution and general advance. Thus to be a cultural activist, one must understand the underlying contradictions and define one´s class stand. On whose side are we? As cultural activists, we stand with and for the people. We expose and criticize oppression and obscurantism in any or many aspects of this vast mental, communication, and behavioral complex that we call culture, and espouse revolutionary changes in society in that same space.

In the past two or three decades now, the world’s countries and peoples have been facing a renewed cultural offensive by the foremost imperialist powers. This offensive advances in parallel with their economic and political-military offensives. This cultural offensive is led by US imperialism. It is the “soft power” aspect of the US ambition for full spectrum dominance in the economic, political, military, social and other spheres, including outer space."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're 100% right and it's downright disturbing that you're downvoted. Depraved

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Mashallah good for Venezuela. Al mawt li amrika. Guyana is a full on Chevron NATO outpost at this point.

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