Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Venezuela on fire: What happened - Renegade Inc

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On 2017/06/08 03:57 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
(The same old critique. How is it that so little of this was heard 
before oil prices began to plummet?)


Because, I think, we haven't been good at connecting the dots between 
climate activism and general tendencies of Resource Cursing, applicable 
also in Venezuela. That failure to work across sectors is a more general 
problem, evident across the left, environmentalists, community, labour - 
certainly in Africa: 
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/13/disconnecting-the-minerals-energy-climate-dots/


It's why Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything is so vital.

Actually, the lefty critique of fossil extractivism in the Pink Tide 
zone that I just mentioned, from Edgardo Lander, has been rising fast in 
that region since at least the early 2000s. One very interesting group - 
Accion Ecologica radical eco-feminists based in Quito - has been central 
to the Oilwatch global network, along with their comrades at 
Environmental RIghts Action in Nigeria.


I hung out with them 6 years ago in the Yasuni forest trying to get a 
handle on "leave the oil in the soil" politics: 
http://links.org.au/node/2430


Here's a bit of a translation to an eco-social struggle in northern 
KwaZulu-Natal not far from Durban: 
http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/files/Leave-the-coal-in-the-ground-somkhele.pdf


Obviously there's a great deal of debate going on about whether 
'environmental justice' is the appropriate framing, or whether 
eco-socialism can get traction in scenes like this, as a result of 
various EJ limitations...




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[Marxism] Fwd: Venezuela on fire: What happened - Renegade Inc

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(The same old critique. How is it that so little of this was heard 
before oil prices began to plummet?)



“It’s important to admit that the Bolivarian governments in the past 18 
years were incapable of transforming the economic structure of the 
country,” says Dr Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández, a lecturer of 
Anthropology and Spanish and Latin American Studies at Sydney University.


“There remains a structure of rentier capitalism which is absolutely 
dependent on the rent obtained by oil production and exportation. 
Certainly much of the money that was obtained through that oil revenue 
ended up in public redistribution,” he says.


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