One of the main reasons I’ve been feeling so depressed and down since the US forces invaded and kidnapped Maduro and his wife is that this action will not only harm Venezuela’s transition toward a workers’ state and its government, but also deeply affect the country’s low-income population, which makes up about 75% of Venezuelans.

One of the main reasons I’ve been feeling so depressed and down since the US forces invaded and kidnapped Maduro and his wife is that this action will not only harm Venezuela’s transition toward a workers’ state and its government, but also deeply affect the country’s low-income population, which makes up about 75% of Venezuelans.

But this action will also have two consequences for the global left. It will damage its reputation and kill the motivation of people to support leftist movements. It will also crush the hope of many low-income individuals who see socialism, communism, or Marxism as a way to address their low living standards and poverty.

The reformist, pseudo-leftist, welfare-capitalist, and corrupt states like Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, North Korea, Brazil, Colombia, Vietnam, and others with so-called human-faced governments have already done that. Perhaps the leaders of social-democratic, reformist, fake-left governments aren’t entirely to blame, since socialism (workers’ states) is impossible in one, two, or three isolated nations surrounded by the IMF, World Bank, the right-wing and imperialist UN, the US imperialist government, NATO imperialists, and so on.

All this negativity and the failure of Hugo Chavez’s transitional system toward socialism in Venezuela, Latin America, and the Caribbean have dealt a direct blow to socialist, Marxist, and communist ideology.

It’s going to be even tougher for poor, oppressed people to embrace leftist ideals, not just because past left-leaning experiments have largely failed, but also because people naturally tend to side with winners instead of losers..

That’s why I have no friends, and I hardly talk about anything with my right-wing, traditional Christian, church-going family in the Republican, Zionist state of Tennessee. It’s nearly impossible to find a leftist or Marxist in the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, which feels like a nightmare for communists.

Something has to give !!