[lbo-talk] On Venezuela's Cooperative "Revolution"

[Carrol Cox]

What we have in Venezuela and some other nations is a form of dual power.
Criticism from outside of this kind of situation is simply meaningless.
Criticism of anything -- a poem, a piece of fruit, a hat-- requires that one
understand its genus, or else you will find yourself in the position of
someone  complaining that a hat doesn't taste good. In these states we have
a process underway -- that's all that can be intelligently said of it from
'outside.' There are no relevant criteria by which to judge such a process.
I stopped reading Marxmail posts on Venezuela, Bolivia, etc  several years
ago for this reason. No matter what their content, they were a priori
sillthis reason. No matter what their content, they were a priori sill

Carrol