Venezuela in Crisis: Defending the Bolivarian Revolution

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

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🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher is an American political theorist, commentator, and activist. He is an Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies at Drexel University in Philadelphia and Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Social Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is the author of three books: We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution, Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela, Decolonizing Dialectics.

Brett interviews Dr. Ciccariello-Maher on the history of, and the current situation in, Venezuela.

Topics Include: Hugo Chavez, the Constituent Assembly, the opposition, the Venezuelan Communes, the concept of dual power, Jacobin Magazine, the Bolivarian Revolution, and much more.

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His latest article on Venezuela: https://jacobinmag.com/2017/07/venezuela-elections-chavez-maduro-bolivarianism

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0:18.1	Workers of the world you night. We're educated. We've been given a certain set of tools
0:22.5	But then we're throwing right back into the working class. Well good luck with that because more and more of us are waking the fuck up
0:30.7	So we have a tendency to what we have we have earned
0:34.5	What we don't have we are going to
0:38.1	We unintentionally I think oftentimes kind of frame our lives
0:43.6	As though we are the predestined people want to be guilt free like I didn't do it
0:49.2	Like this is not my fault. I think that's part of the distancing from like
0:56.8	When the main function of a protect and serve
1:00.2	Supposedly group is actually revenue generation
1:04.7	They they don't protect and serve
1:07.3	Simply illogical to say that the thing is that affect all of us that can result in us losing our house that can result in us
1:13.6	Not having clean drinking water. Why should those be in anybody else's hands?
1:17.4	They should be in the people's hands who are affected by those institutions
1:21.4	People engaged and to to overcome oppression to fight back and to identify those systems of structures that are oppressing them
1:30.9	God those comments are amazing. Welcome to revolutionary left radio
1:35.5	I'm your host and comrade bread O'Shea and we have a very special guest with us today
1:40.2	I'm extremely excited about this interview
1:42.4	Um, so as not to butcher the name. I'm going to let our guest introduce himself and say a little bit about his background in academia and in revolutionary activism
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