Comments by "DXR" (@MrDXRamirez) on "What You’re Not Being Told About Venezuela Crisis. w/Abby Martin" video.

  1. Louis Napoleon, Simon Bolivar, Hugo Chavez, were all military and political leaders who played a leading role in establishing a sovereign state. They were all inspired by the French Revolution of 1789, the birth of the nation-state and the rank and file of the military over which they commanded were the working classes and peasantry. ICE recruits compared to US military recruits come from different class backgrounds, while all the branches of the US military is homogenous, ICE and local enforcement are heterogenous from the same or similar class and social backgrounds. A dictatorship of the military could nearly be synonymous to a dictatorship of the proletariat because the military rank and file is all proletariat and peasant origin in Venezuela. Interestingly, the US military is all proletariat through internal divisions. There is bound to rise from history an American version of an enlightenment military leader. The three historic figures had the peasantry and the working classes on their side and staged coup de'tats instead of social revolutions. Napoleon made allies out of the working classes and peasantry to overthrow the nobility and monarchy, Bolivar used French enlightenment ideas of independence for Venezuela from Spanish rule the same way the American revolution fought independence from British rule. But their countries and culture were dynamically different and so their top down revolutions were also very different in effect. Chavez led a revolution of national sovereignty of the peasants and working classes under conditions that made it ripe for a social revolution, it was their day to establish a state that was rooted in the working classes, peasantry and poor, effectively, uniting the military with the lower social classes of society. It was time to shed colonialism in its modern form. Chavez brought enlightenment ideas to the working classes and transferred oil wealth to lift the social strata from poverty. Why this late into the 21 century, it could have happened sooner in the same sense the landed aristocracy across Latin America would have been overthrown long ago if not for American interests in cheap labor-markets and money markets in Latin America. The same reasons the Emancipation Proclamation of Lincoln is yet to be fully enforced by the central government in America to improve race relations. Apartheid was abolished in the 1990's peacefully. Power relinquished without violence. American descendants of slaves and the Venezuelans workers and peasants share a history of denial of freedom from their oppressors. 200 years has passed and to this day been colonialism in its modern forms is not formerly abolished in the US. Venezuela is beginning to erase the class differences, which might be why the middle classes become more reactionary fearing survival as a middle class, and in a process of decay.
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