[lbo-talk] Tariq Ali and the Bolivarian revolutions

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Just went to an interesting talk by Tariq Ali, mostly
on the middle east and the state of the Western left,
but Ali has written a new book, Pirates of the
Caribbean: Axis of Hope, and remarked that the real
center of anticapitalist resistance to imperialism
these days in in the northern arc of Latin America and
the Caribbean. This brought home how shamefully little
I know about all that, but it has a ring of truth. Why
try to make a red flag out of a burqua when you have
actual self-proclaimed socialists in power and kicking
imperialist ass in Latin America?  Seems to me that is
much more productive as a place to focus. Of course we
have to oppose continued and and extended war in the
Middle East, but if we are looking for hope, it's more
likely to be found in Venezuela and Bolivia than in Iran.

       
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