It’s clearly a color revolution with heavy Mossad and CIA influence. The “Ghaddaffi treatment” ruined Libya, there’s no chance of this turning into a socialist state right now.

It’s actually called the Human Rights Foundation, actually. It’s a real thing founded by a Venezuelan gusano.

From your own link

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a non-profit organization that focuses on promoting and protecting human rights globally, with an emphasis on authoritarian regimes.[2] HRF organizes the Oslo Freedom Forum. The Human Rights Foundation was founded in 2005 by Thor Halvorssen Mendoza, a Venezuelan film producer and human rights advocate. The current chairman is Russian opposition activist Yulia Navalnaya, and Javier El-Hage is the current chief legal officer. The foundation’s head office is in the Empire State Building in New York City.[2][3][4]

The Human Rights Foundation was founded in 2005 by Venezuelan human rights advocate and film producer Thor Halvorssen Mendoza in response to the alarming rise of authoritarianism in Latin America,[5] particularly in Venezuela.[6]

His family’s deeply personal experience with political repression—his father was arbitrarily imprisoned and his mother seriously wounded by security forces during a protest—shaped HRF’s early mission to boldly defend individual rights in closed societies.[7] HRF’s founding council included figures such as Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and former Czech president Václav Havel, who called the organization “an essential voice for freedom” and later chaired its International Council until his death in 2011.

Initially focused on Latin America, HRF worked on legal advocacy, international litigation, and public campaigns on behalf of political prisoners. It later expanded its focus to the global stage, taking on cases in countries such as North Korea, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. Today, HRF runs campaigns and engages in bold, unapologetic pro-democracy advocacy around the world, with a laser-sharp focus on countries classified as authoritarian or hybrid authoritarian.

Essentially, a gusano that lost out when Chavez nationalized the oil industry among others for the good of the people made a non-profit to deliver US State department propaganda around the world about the US Empire’s geopolitical enemies. They also shill for cryptocurrency. They’re a far-right think-tank.

I guess Venezuela is full of “Gusanos” as you call them because 7.9 million isn’t a small number hermano.

It is and was, but also has had people flee due to economic problems caused by the US Empire sanctioning them, not a fault of Maduro or Chavez.

Not denying Operation Gideon either, but can you please point me to where Biden did this? According to your own link the operation was primarily planned by Clíver Alcalá Cordones (retired Venezuelan major general) and Jordan Goudreau (a canadian american mercenary).

It was supported by the US government, and is merely one of many attempts by the empire to undermine Venezuelan socialism.

Venezuela was never socialist. Hell, the US is more socialist than Venezuela. Venezuela is more of a marxism-leninism when it comes to the government it has.

Marxism-Leninism is socialist, but Venezuela is closer to reformist socialism than Marxism-Leninism. The US Empire is capitalist, the large firms and key industries are privately owned and capitalists in charge of the state. I don’t know what you think Marxism-Leninism is, but if you want a primer, check out section 0 of the intro ML reading list I made.

Lastly, what Trump did is an illegal act of war both in the international laws side and in the laws of the united states as he didn’t even get congress to sign off on (not that this would make it OK either). However, the point isn’t that the US is good or bad (because the US currently has a corrupt and out of control government at the moment), it’s that Maduro did not get elected.

You haven’t proven that Maduro didn’t get elected, though, you’ve just posted that the majority of western countries and compradors believe him to not be. The majority of the world upholds Maduro as legitimate and the constitutionally recognized president of Venezuela. The US Empire has always been corrupt and “out of control,” Trump is just the latest in a long line of imperialists.

The nonprofit human rights foundation said it was fraud, the majority of south america said it was fraud even countries aligned more to China than the US. Source

Your source is the Human Rights Foundation, a US State Department - mouthpiece known for manufacturing consent for regime change. What’s actually true is that Maduro is the internationally recognized president of Venezuela.

Lastly, if the elections of Venezuela where legitimate and Maduro was the “good guy” as you appear to paint him as then why do we have a Venezuelan refuge crisis? Source

Gusanos fled Venezuela when their assets were nationalized. Continuous emigration from Venezuela is due to the economic act of war from the US Empire, including sanctions, blockades, and restricting trade with Venezuela. The working classes support Maduro in Venezuela, which is why the US Empire is relying on AI generated videos, older videos celebrating Maduro’s election in 2024, and so forth to pretend Venezuelans are celebrating his kidnapping.

Bonus: No one has ever told me that Biden stole the election in the US and also said Maduro stole the Venezuelan election, I don’t listen to propaganda networks like Newsmax or Fox News.

Biden is an imperialist, just like Trump. Operation Gideon happened under Biden, where the US Empire tried a Bay of Pigs style invasion of Venezuela. Desire to overthrow the socialist government of Venezuela has existed since Chavez nationalized the oil industry. You do listen to propaganda, likely CNN, BBC, or New York Times.

Edit: Not directly funded, but a mouthpiece nonetheless.

Maduro was democratically elected because the election was widely observed as fair, Maduro won 51% to González’ 43%, and because surrounding nations such as Bolivia, Cuba, Colombia, etc. recognized it as legitimate. The fact is, the same people that claim Biden stole the 2020 election are now telling you that Maduro stole 2024 in order to justify kidnapping him and his wife and steal Venezuelan oil. This is a tried and true tactic of the US Empire.

This is being pushed by US-funded “Human Rights Organizations,” while the CIA and Mossad are active within the anti-government protests. We need to be especially critical of news like this.

Taking a doomerist stance just forces the responsibility for organizing onto the global south, and is deeply chauvanist.

No? There has never been a legal path to fixing the US Empire, it has always required revolution.

Generally they already are a part of the Russian Federation if they want to be.

2 major factors: In any given society, the mode of production is reinforced by the culture, laws, and ideology of said mode of production. Secondly, people license themselves to believe that whatever they think benefits them is good. Capitalism reinforces ideas like individualism, NATO is good, etc, and we go along with it until our material conditions force us into seeing a new reflection of reality, be it at the workplace, or seeing hard evidence online, being the victim of a bombing campaign, etc. It isn’t a man behind the curtain, but capital and the capitalist class.

The US Empire is actively plundering the ROK, and uses it as a millitary base. Intervention is not imperialism, but a method that can be used for it.

Trade deals have diplomatic and economic influence. There’s no such thing as 100% power - 0% power, even in imperialist relationships. It isn’t simply “either/or” in those terms. Your definition is vague to the point of obfuscating how and why imperialism functions, and you’re using it as evidence to say the soviets supporting a liberation movement was “imperialism,” as though the goal was to plunder Afghanistan. This rejection of in-depth analysis is self-defeating, and gives us no understanding of how Tunisia can escape imperialism, while the definition I gave did.

There’s no material analysis in your definition, just vague mentions of influence. All countries influence those they have ties with for their own benefit. It’s a simplistic definition that obfuscates the nature of imperialism and how it behaves. Again, it’s like calling a tree a plant, and refusing to go into any further depth. Being general is not an inherent advantage, especially if the rules laid out earlier are observable patterns.

I understand that your definition is found in dictionaries, my point is that this definition itself is measured by vibes, not materialist analysis. The fact that you don’t personally consider Tunisian diplomacy to be imperialism doesn’t mean it doesn’t meet that vibes-based definition.

I agree, Tunisia isn’t imperializing the EU, but by the definition you gave, it can be construed that way. With the proper definition based on materialist analysis that I gave, there’s no way to misconstrue it as Tunisia being imperialist.

Let me ask this: why uphold the vibes-based definition over the materialist one? Why categorize all plants as trees, when this is reductive at best and wrong at worst?

I mean joining an org like PSL, training and studying as an activist and directly participate in organizing outreach, educating others, forming protests, and more.

Influencing the trade deals with the EU is infliencing them with diplomacy. It fits your definition, because your definition is vibes-based and not materialist. By saying that Tunisia has zero leverage against the EU, you’re drawing a hard line that isn’t implied in the original definition. I agree that Tunisia isn’t imperialist and that that’s absurd, but my point is that the vibes-based definition leads to absurd conclusions.

Let me ask this: why uphold the vibes-based definition over the materialist one? Why categorize all plants as trees, when this is reductive at best and wrong at worst?

I’m aware that the EU is imperializing Tunisia, but you’re wrong about why. Tunisia is using diplomacy to try to extend their influence and gain favorable trade deals. This is why your definition is vibes-based, and not based on materialist analysis. Taking the overview of imperialism into account:

-The presence of monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life.

This is true of the EU, not of Tunisia.

-The merging of bank capital with industrial capital into finance capital controlled by a financial oligarchy.

This is true of the EU, not of Tunisia.

-The export of capital as distinguished from the simple export of commodities.

The EU is exporting its capital to Tunisia, and largely gaining in commodities and raw materials.

-The formation of international monopolist capitalist associations (cartels) and multinational corporations.

This is true of the EU, not of Tunisia.

-The domination and exploitation of other countries by militaristic imperialist powers, now through neocolonialism.

The EU treats Tunisia like a neocolony.

-The territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers.

This is also true, though in the modern iteration the US Empire is primary, while its vassals like the EU are secondary.

How can Tunisia escape this imperialism? Protectionism, nationalizing its key industries and kicking out foreign capital, and focusing on industrialization to move up the value chain. Tunisia largely exports textiles and machinery, while being dominated by EU capital, specifically France, Italy, Germany, and Spain.

This is why a scientific analysis of imperialism is necessary. When you reduce it to something as vague as “influence,” all countries that have diplomatic ties try to use that influence for their own benefit. However, that alone doesn’t explain imperialism, the core point of which being some countries dramatically benefiting from others at their expense.

Returning to the soviet union, in Afghanistan the goal wasn’t resources, but to establish socialism and liberate them. They were not after resources or domination. The soviet union certainly influenced them, but not in the same manner as the US Empire.

By your definition, Tunisia is imperializing the EU due to their diplomatic relations and free trade agreements, where Tunisia tries to gain favorable trade deals. According to your definition, Tunisia is imposing its desire for better trade relations on the EU and thus imperializing it.

Now, this is of course absurd, but that’s why when we say it isn’t imperialist while following your definition that this is just vibes. There’s nothing scientific about your definition, nothing that can be used to analyze why some countries develop while underdeveloping others, nor how we stop this.

That’s why, in broadening and generalizing it, you’ve destroyed its analytical capacity. It’s like saying we should rename all of the different types of plants to “tree.” Not only does it remove the specificity of taxonomy, but also gets it wrong in many cases!

It does not go beyond how socialists define imperialism, it reduces imperialism to vibes. Imperialism is a material phenomenon with definite characteristics, not whenever a country influences another. When you reduce imperialism to vibes, it certainly makes it more broadly applicable, but you lose sight of how and why it functions, how to stop it, where it comes from, etc. It’s like arguing that lions and cheetahs are both cats, and that therefore cheetahs are lions.

Imperialism, in simplified characteristics, functions as follows:

-The presence of monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life.

-The merging of bank capital with industrial capital into finance capital controlled by a financial oligarchy.

-The export of capital as distinguished from the simple export of commodities.

-The formation of international monopolist capitalist associations (cartels) and multinational corporations.

-The domination and exploitation of other countries by militaristic imperialist powers, now through neocolonialism.

-The territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers.

The USSR had interventionist foreign policy, but it was not dominating other countries nor economically plundering them. In classifying it as imperialist, you run cover for the fact that the USSR was undermining economic plunder of the global south while the west was protecting and expanding that plunder.

Fastest way is for Kiev to cede the 4 oblasts that already want to be a part of the Russian Federation anyways, and NATO neutrality.