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

Eric Beck ersatzdog at gmail.com
Fri Jan 7 07:34:19 PST 2011


On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> 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.

How to put this delicately? How about this: what a load of crap. *Every* place has a form of dual power. It doesn't get born because of some great popular socialist consciousness or state-induced processes. How it manifests itself varies, and obviously perspectives on it would and should differ depending on location, but saying the outside--as if capitalism hasn't erased outsides--can't know the situation is silly.



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