Chris shares his thoughts on his visit to Venezuela back in the day in which he witnessed first hand the incredible potential of worker's control of the means of production and the current election contest of Maduro against a Trump clone. Chavez instituted an incredible amount of reforms for the working class and laid a foundation for the Bolivarian revolution. Unfortunately under Maduro and the crippling sanctions put forth by US imperialism, the country caved to capitalist restoration. As Marxists we defend the gains made by the Bolivarian Revolution while decrying the limits of bourgeois democracy, and using Trotsky's Permanent Revolution to understand how to fight for something better.

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Further Reading

https://www.marxist.com/urgent-note-on-venezuela-how-did-we-reach-this-dead-end.htm

https://www.marxist.com/presidential-elections-in-venezuela-between-death-by-asphyxiation-and-decapitation.htm

https://socialistrevolution.org/supreme-court-approves-assault-on-communist-party-of-venezuela/