The Marxist Lens: Crisis in Venezuela, feat. Dr. Marc Becker

Professor of history and expert in Latin American studies Marc Becker talks about the events unfolding in Venezuela, including misconceptions, misrepresentation, and hypocrisy.

[markcouch]

I was halfway through this before I realized this was Dr. Becker, whose Latin America History course I took at Truman

[brendannyman]

Yall should do a video on the failed coup event. Where fisherman caught US mercenaries.

[infinitasalo]

Very insightful. I'd highly recommend Marc Becker's book Revolutionary Movements in Modern Latin America for info on the Bolivarian, Cuban, Sandinista, etc. revolutions

[gupyb]

Want to know the reason about Venezuela crisis?
David Ricardo.

Venezuela choose to use crude oil profit to provide public service instead of acquire the means of production of said needed goods and services.

They followed Ricardo's comparative advantage instead of Marx/Keynes developpement.

[PC]

Excellent video! I truly recommend ”A plot to overthrow Venezuela: how the US is orchestrating a coup for oil” by Dan Kovalik, which is amazing at explaining the whole topic. It’s already available in libgen

[JuanVasquezq]

How can anyone think that it is impossible to corrupt an electoral system? Venezuelan eletoral system is not unique, alot of countries in Latino America we have the same system, we elect out president, diputies and mayors in diff elections and yes, the same party can participate in all of this election and can eventually corropt all of them

[gonzogil]

Those UN that shows how much they have invested in "social needs" do not reflect the reality, or, the concrete situation. You know they inflate the number of that "they invest in" in order to be able to steal from the income the country has received? the fact that there is no infrastructure, any inspection would verify this, as well as the fact that military people (trained by the US army) did not prepare for what the US did, even though they insist on having an awareness of how the US operates (both as trainees, and as Latin Americans) should tell you something. Another structuring, and revealing highlight was shown in their public announcement, on every tv station in the country, that they were going to mortgage the country´s wealth to the banks in the US by issuing "structured bonds". They did this in public: the selling of the country´s future income. Before they entered into power they complained about this modality of destroying the country´s future: well now the country´s foreign debt (during an oil boom: I am a political economist graduate from UMKC 2007, and a liberal arts degree from JCCC, KS) is up to 200 billion dollars.So, no infrastructure nor investments. As you may know, that is a lot of medicine and education, and if you remove those things a lot of lives are going to not meet the best of ends. The same with the electrical grid. Zero investments what actually took place was that the money was stolen with the old oligarchical groups. It is difficult to be alive without electricity nowadays: schools, hospitals, etc. Basic necessities are not trivialities. The same people that entered into power in 1999 are still in power only now they are known as the boli-bourgeoise. Not precisely because they own many factories. They have helped brutalized, and torture my family for 10yrs along with the US embassy. Can one really claim that their systematic behavior is reflective of people being aware of the historical danger the US has posed? People that cared about such danger? My brother and I are American citizens that should give you room for pause. I have official FOIA docs to prove it. And the mighty US army, FBI, and Homeland Security refuse to release more. It is more like an intra-mural-child-raping scrimmage than anything else. You may not know, but did you know that have been involved in child abuse, for decades: operating internationally. Check the Counter-Intelligence documentary. If I was a leftist I would not be bending over backward to defend child-rapists, and torturers for the US government. It is weird to see this in a Marxist channel. I have yet to see that degree of mobilization to organize victims.

[gonzogil]

8:20min You cannot establish an electoral race for a new national assembly by presidential order. They have to ask the people first, and they have to vote on whether or not they want a new national assembly. The latter never happened. They just issued an executive order and force people to chose between both political groups. That is forcing people that is not giving them their place as the ones who decide whether or not they want the totality of social relations to be modified. Furthermore they modified the constitution and never asked the people to vote on the changes they made. They simply modified the entirety of the set of social relations without anyone´s input and proceeded to legitimize what their new role vis a vi the public was. These are a group of US-trained military people mostly. They are hardly in love with democracy. The hatred the pentagon has for US citizens is legendary. I present my family´s case.