US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.
US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.
we need to organize a bit harder, everyone. seriously!
You all are sleep walking into another forever war nobody wants. I implore everyone to read your own and Latin American history from the last 50 years. It’s not taught.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/901/The-School-of-the-AmericasMilitary-Training-and (Ask Anna for a copy.)
https://soaw.org/notorious-soa-graduates
do you think i should study a bit more socialist theory, and is there any way i can study in layperson’s terms without losing focus quickly?
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No, I read that book (The School of the Americas by Leslie Gill) before I knew what socialism was in a Political Theory of Latin America class. It radicalized me and I have used it to radicalize ex military confused libertarians and liberals. It is good without theory, it is pure history. If you read enough history, you can passively get theory via trends and vice versa. That is ultimately what they discuss anyway if the author is decent, via materialist analysis (though that obviously brings its own problems). I am happy to send audio and pdfs as needed to whomever. I am not sure if there is an audiobook of this one, but I am due a refresher regardless.
like i wanna study for socialist theory, but there’s something about it makes my head spin. do you have any tips on “studying in layperson’s terms”?
Listen to that voice and read this: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/russell-means-for-america-to-live-europe-must-die That voice is telling you something very real and important. Trust yourself.
i mean the text - i’ve heard of a study method which taking long paragraphs and boiling them down into very short ones. however, sometimes i CAN’T find the right words to a point where i prefer NOT to say anything. do you have any tips?
To summarise the text I attached… Trust the resistance. If it feels like you are forcing something that doesn’t fit, that is probably what you are doing. What are you actually trying to learn? Not “study theory” but what do you want to understand?
learning about socialism and studying it without losing focus quickly or having my head spin. seriously!
does anyone think i should study a bit more on socialist theory, and is there any way i can study in layperson’s terms without losing focus?
Organize against what, exactly?
The way I see it, it’s two assholes fighting. Both suck and are responsible of crisis and death of their own country people. Let them fight, then. Though I know Venezuela doesn’t stand a chance, unfortunately.
Whatever the situation is in Venezula, it’s not going to be a good thing for America to get entangled.
Hussein was a pretty bad dude, but our intervention in Iraq ultimately was bad for America and didn’t exactly make things in Iraq better.
Ah yes you are displaying the kind of intelligence the US military favours in its recruits. Non at all.
I won’t say my grammar is perfect, but I do try not to misspell things and insult other people’s intelligence at the same time.
You seem to be under the deluded impression that a war between two people only affects those two people, so yeah I’m insulting your intelligence. Do you even know what a war is, I know that’s a stupid question but I’m seriously asking because it sounds like you don’t?
you’re aware who does the actual fighting and whom the bombs will be raining on??
Replying to your shit take as soap box to answer your question and remind everyone that one the things we should be organizing is a GENERAL STRIKE
GeneralStrikeUS.com
Congratulations to Portugal for committing to a GENERAL STRIKE and gaining massive leverage: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/portugal-general-strike-stalls-transport-closes-schools-labour-reform-protest-2025-12-11/
do you think i’m a sh*tlib who thinks biden should’ve gotten re-elected? NOT assuming anyone, just asking. seriously!
It wouldn’t be a fight, it would be a massacre. Untold thousands dead, millions of refugees. Knowing this, how could you possibly wish for it?
would there a marxist revolution against both maduro and trump in venezuela? NOT repeating any US state department talking points (looking at you, hexbear!), just asking. seriously!
Why would there be a Marxist revolution in Venezuela if they already have a Bolivarian revolution going on? Venezuela is an extremely grassroots country, more than 10% of the state budget is allocated to local committees to spend however they democratically desire from what I gather. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans are actually enlisting as volunteers this past month to the country’s militias to defend the country from possible American invasion.