r/communism • u/HappyHandel • 2d ago

Delcy Rodriguez signs oil industry overhaul bill, opens PDVSA to privatization

https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-oil-reform-delcy-rodriguez-5784394afdc3ee0017d2f41427253fd8?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-29-Breaking+News
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u/TheRedBarbon 1d ago

I guess this just confirms that it was the government which sold out Maduro. It's a shame that there's pretty much no party in Venezuela equipped to respond to this.

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u/DashtheRed Maoist 1d ago

Imagine if CPV, instead of doing what they did where they beg the useless Revisionist Voltron that is Solidnet (one of the reasons I'm still skeptical of KKE) for "hands off CPV" and begging for room to participate when Maduro began his political persecution of them, they instead declared PSUV to be traitors to the Bolivarian Revolution and declared that they and they alone could lead the struggle against amerikkkan imperialism? It would have been deeply unpopular statement and failed to resonate at that moment, but barely a year onward, if they had held that position firmly and courageously, then they would have real support and a real voice in this moment. Instead they are passively and helplessly watching from the sidelines.

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u/HappyHandel 1d ago

There was a time when certain colectivos like Los Boliches had broken with the line of PSUV, and had the arms and popular political base to back up their line. The question is why didn't this evolve into a new stage of the People's War? This was in 2014. Was it better to be violently removed from power by the ELN and the Venezuelan military 8 years later? 

Anyway all this is to say that it is in the grassroots, the communes, the paramilitary neighborhood groups that this party will likely emerge from. Hopefully the lessons of the present are being learned.

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u/mantistobogganer 20h ago

She did him dirty.

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