Re: AUT: [Fwd: <nettime> From Venezuelan Writers, Artists and Academics

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Peter

You may be well be right. I wasnt really saying hey guys look the
"Bolivarian" thingy needs our support.  More like in the "spectacle of
empire" to  your average punter (whether left or not) the whole
Venezuelan situation is incommunicable to the extent that l they see are
uniforms and berets and "democrats" in the streets. I suspect you may be
right that any real change is trapped in the current circumstances, but
I think also you could maybe say Chavez has let the cat out of the bag
and it will be pretty hard for anyone to keep the "venezuelan multitude"
under wraps without a real application of force.

Martin


cannot relatJovanovic wrote:

> hi all
>
> Martin wrote:
>
>> Another thing that seems to raise its head here is the
>> incommunicability of struggles. I wonder if there was a lot of
>> confusion about this idea in Empire. One of my Panamanian students
>> led me down a path of considering it as a part of the segementation
>> of the imperial landscape. That is struggles are not at their core
>> incommunicable, but in the spectacle of empire they appear to be. How
>> many viewing the Venezuelan situation through the lens of the
>> spectacle can really feel any affinity with the Bolivarian struggle.
>
>
> And why should we feel any affinity with the Bolivarian struggle? It
> doesn't seem to be much more than threadbare social democracy that has
> done capital the great service of effecting a massive polarisation of
> Venezuelans between left and right rackets thus foreclosing any real
> revolt.
>
> cheers
> pete
>
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