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“We are betraying everything we claim to believe in.” It implies we were once faithful to high values and principles. That is a liberal approach, not a fact.

A different perspective by Richard Seymour

Trump did not hide that a major reason for the attack and kidnapping of Maduro was aimed at putting the US in control of Venezuela’s vast oil reserves , described as “our oil” by Trump. However, there are other factors behind Trump’s move against Venezuela.  The new  National Security Strategy  makes it clear: the Monrow doctrine of the 1820s is back on steroids.  Back then, President Monroe declared that European nations must not interfere or try to control Latin America, as this was now the ‘sphere of influence’ for the United States of America.  Now under Trump, globalisation has given way to ‘Making America Great Again’ by firmly establishing Latin America as the US imperialism’s backyard.  That means no country can be allowed to resist US policy and interests.  ‘Friendly regimes’ must be installed to enable both privileged American use of resources and the ability to deny those to competitors. That means growing Chinese influence and investme...

The classic mindset of the “neoliberalised left.” Inside the United States, the crisis is reduced to a few violations, a few instances of lawbreaking, or a handful of limited reforms—as if making the process “legal” automatically means power itself has been restrained. The same intellectual currents that, at home, strike an anti-corruption moral pose and limit the debate to legal procedures, show up internationally with vague “anti-imperialist” slogans—without any serious analysis of capital, state power, and global hegemony. The truth that should be kept in full view is deliberately removed: capital is not just markets and companies. Capital is organised political power. Hegemony m eans the ability to set the world’s agenda—to decide what counts as “legitimate,” what is “illegal”,  what is “security,” what is “terrorism,” and who has the right to use force and who does not. The logic of rebuilding empire

The  devaluation  of the world of men is in direct proportion to the  increasing value  of the world of things. — Karl Marx, 1844