Shotgun leftists – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:01:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png Shotgun leftists – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 Critique, Solidarity and Movement Building: A Reply to Lucas Koerner https://onvenezuela.com/critique-solidarity-and-movement-building-a-reply-to-lucas-koerner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=critique-solidarity-and-movement-building-a-reply-to-lucas-koerner Thu, 13 Feb 2020 05:37:02 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=1322

More questionably, shotgun leftists offer “unequivocal” support to governments identified as leftist, revolutionary and/or anti-imperialist, e.g., Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia under Evo Morales, and Nicaragua, and in some versions of the genre, any state opposed by the United States. What is questionable is not supporting left/revolutionary states, but doing so unequivocally. This can and often does lead to willingness to turn a blind eye to these states’ objectionable, even appalling actions, including widespread extra-judicial killings, and suppression of political liberties that leftists around the world have fought and died for. By Gabriel Hetland. Full text-> FAIR

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