Tbh, what i find surprising is how little disagreement comes from party or people as well. they did have some agricultural worker protests about wages/rice prices, but not about everything else
Might just be, will you say the same if they restructure 50-150 billion debts with world bank assistance? If they declare gang violence by communes? There are two competing theories here, they are slow walking betrayal or they are biding their time, what’s your deciding factoid one way or the other?
There are definitely metrics that change the calculus, and look to the communes as the canary in that struggle. On the financial side of things it is challenging to say because of the dire economic situation, if they feel the best move they have is something that still sucks, as long as they are committed to their revolution it is what it is imo. If they start repressing the communes or rejecting chavismo, it’s a bad sign, but the communes could rise up and retake the government at that point still so it isn’t the end yet. For now all levels seem very confident and unified so I’m hopeful
I think you are overestimating commune power a tad, but also structural adjustment takes time to propagate, i suspect next 2-5 (pending the usa admin hurry) years will be relatively peaceful with privatizations here and there, so that people start to enjoy the superior porky wages/evangelical preachers, and then final push to dismantlement will come, so guess we just have to wait and see
Hmm maybe concentrating power in one person’s hand is a tad bit bad idea
Tbh, what i find surprising is how little disagreement comes from party or people as well. they did have some agricultural worker protests about wages/rice prices, but not about everything else
They are a unified movement and understand that the political figurehead is playing the realpolitik role she is supposed to play
Might just be, will you say the same if they restructure 50-150 billion debts with world bank assistance? If they declare gang violence by communes? There are two competing theories here, they are slow walking betrayal or they are biding their time, what’s your deciding factoid one way or the other?
There are definitely metrics that change the calculus, and look to the communes as the canary in that struggle. On the financial side of things it is challenging to say because of the dire economic situation, if they feel the best move they have is something that still sucks, as long as they are committed to their revolution it is what it is imo. If they start repressing the communes or rejecting chavismo, it’s a bad sign, but the communes could rise up and retake the government at that point still so it isn’t the end yet. For now all levels seem very confident and unified so I’m hopeful
I think you are overestimating commune power a tad, but also structural adjustment takes time to propagate, i suspect next 2-5 (pending the usa admin hurry) years will be relatively peaceful with privatizations here and there, so that people start to enjoy the superior porky wages/evangelical preachers, and then final push to dismantlement will come, so guess we just have to wait and see