This Friday evening, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, held a meeting with representatives of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest left-leaning political organization in the United States.

Happy to say ive heard lots of great things from comrades who were there who include several NPC members.

https://twitter.com/NicolasMaduro/status/1411121788701052933

https://twitter.com/Gaius_Gracchus_/status/1411129317208244224

https://twitter.com/nicolasmaduro/status/1411150426049810434

:maduro-coffee:

  • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Good faith criticism doesn't zero in on the bad and frame it in the worst possible light. It places a bad statement/act in context of whatever else the person says/does on the topic, and it considers that some bad things may be due to ignorance or mistake instead of the person being shitty.

    Take a look at some of AOC's other comments on imperialism, colonialism, and foreign policy. In that context, harping on her "deferred to caucus leadership" comment is blatantly misleading. It's the type of slant-by-omission you'd expect to see from someone running a smear campaign, not someone making a good-faith criticism. Clearly her views are more complicated than a blanket support of imperialism, and criticism should reflect that.

    • Vncredleader
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      3 years ago

      Yeah but that was specifically on her talking about Tibet. I get that she is generally better than that, but not every critique needs to be couched in caveats

      • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        If it had been limited to her comments on Tibet, I would agree with you. But it brought up Venezuela, too.

        If someone brings up a vague statement on Venezuela, frames it as damning, and omits a half-dozen clearer, much better statements on the topic, that's bad-faith criticism.

        • Vncredleader
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          3 years ago

          Sure, amidst good faith and warranted critiques. If something about Venezuela slips through into that, then I think the larger problem is with how statements like the Tibet one feed conscious and unconscious assumptions about the org. It confirms a bad faith read on Venezuela, because that negativity was vindicated with Tibet. I dont have an answer for that, nor would I say it is good; but it certainly is a problem and I get why it happens

    • black_mold_futures [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      frame it in the worst possible light.

      in context of whatever else the person says/does on the topic

      You're never going to get labor aristocrat Karens to do historical materialism, that would require reckoning with their material reality and not their idealist delusions.

      Clearly her views are more complicated than a blanket support of imperialism,

      she glows in the dark, but the light is very complicated patterns!