https://lux-magazine.com/article/our-animals-ourselves/
Three weeks ago, few Venezuelans knew Juan Guaidó’s name. Today, the 35-year-old is the international face of Venezuelan protest. More than a dozen countries have officially backed Guidó’s claim to be his country’s interim president and tens of thousands of people have turned out on the streets to support him.
After years of economic crisis and repression under Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian regime, politicians and the public have rallied around Guiado, who is leader of the opposition-held parliament, which was stripped of its powers in 2017. On Jan. 23, he was sworn in as acting president on the basis that Maduro’s second term was illegitimate and that the constitution says the parliament leader must take charge in a power vacuum. In the week since, Guaidó has appointed members of a parallel government and persuaded the U.S. to impose crippling sanctions that will make it harder and harder for Maduro to cling to power.
third one is the funniest, because iirc that's what his detractors call him; it means "guided," which is pretty ace nameplay
yes, there were mistakes and contradictions along the way, but revolution is messy business and back-seating every moment just comes across as utopian. this guy is either a trot or a lib that just needs to accept that he wants a social democracy.
it's kind of funny because just a few years ago i was going through an anti-revisionist phase and it took some time to realize hey, these are experiments happening in an imperialist world with a wide variety of cultural backgrounds and material conditions, have some understanding
Edit: lol of course

William Hinton posted:Lack of strategic consensus has had an incalculable influence on the reconstruction of China since 1949. The right and left swings that constantly distorted policy in the post-land-reform period were nothing new, but in the absence of consensus the swings tended to be far more extreme and far more destructive than they had before. Foot-dragging by an important section of the leadership that disagreed on strategic goals often served to undermine and slow down political initiatives. But by taking the opposite tack, these leaders could, if they felt like it, speed up those initiatives and carry them to extremes for the sole purpose of discrediting not only the initiatives themselves, but the overall direction of the movement. Once ultraleft errors make radical programs look absurd, the substitution of conservative alternatives becomes easy. Whether or not anyone ever consciously carried out such devious manurers, objectively the ball clearly bounded that way.
JohnBeige posted:currently reading the leaked supposed Alito decision regarding overturning roe v wade
How well does it hang together as a legal argument
littlegreenpills posted:How well does it hang together as a legal argument
probably less well than the people who made it
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winebaby posted:I left a copy of Cyclonopedia on my desk and now my partner has been ripping on the title for two days straight. "Are you enjoying Mindograms: Pescaterian Spaceship Relations?" Also the person at book store, whom I know, acted like ordering/buying it was a symptom of crisis. Fifty pages in, do not recommend.
cyclonopedia is cool imo, and your partner sounds rude as heck!
lo posted:winebaby posted:I left a copy of Cyclonopedia on my desk and now my partner has been ripping on the title for two days straight. "Are you enjoying Mindograms: Pescaterian Spaceship Relations?" Also the person at book store, whom I know, acted like ordering/buying it was a symptom of crisis. Fifty pages in, do not recommend.
cyclonopedia is cool imo, and your partner sounds rude as heck!
sorry, I also think it is cool, it's the mockery of my peers that i cannot endure
cars posted:my workplace sent out an email to everyone today saying that the corporate office is retroactively celebrating April as Arab American Heritage month and therefore they would like to “determine the population” of “Arab Americans” or those with “Middle East and North African (MENA) ancestry” in the company through self-reporting. ok
lmao