[lbo-talk] Chavez's socialist world vision

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Bhaskar Sunkara
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Bonapartism is a term usually used to describe a political movement
that relies on a strongman. I could have said left Peronism. Either
way, it was a bit of a silly descriptor since Chavez and the process
in Venezuela is more complex and contradictory than that. Most of the
work I've done has been on campus, so in particular segments of YDS
there is a marxist underpinning, in others more of a social democratic
one. It doesn't make a tremendous difference in practical activity at
the present conjecture (apologies, I hate that word unless Perry
Anderson is using it) to be honest. RE: the work I mentioned before:
http://radicalebooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/revolutionary-strategy-by-mike-mcnair.html

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CB: Yeah, there was humor in your usage, and actually it was kind of
witty. I guess I was coming off of reading your article on Iran and
thinking u were sort of criticizing Venezuela from the same "angle".
But I think I was "hyper sensitive" and misinterpreting u (smile;
defending my noble savage, Little Red Hope).