This is actually the strongest argument for the legitimacy of America Hegemony when made by someone whose even mildly intelligent.
Of course it's still ludicrous for various reasons but the strongest being American primacy isn't the defining feature of the post WW2 make up of nations, contrary to even critics of American Primacy(Chomsky) . As Chavez himself pointed out the greatest change in the international system of the post WW2 era was the massive wave of independence movements in the colonized world , from Africa to South America , China, India, Indochina, West Asia and beyond. All of said movements (which varied in ideology but with Communism and progressive nationalism playing the largest role ) were and are a counterbalance against western imperialism. Along with the USSR through the Cold War of course. America then in it's post WW2 primacy took the mantle of restoring the previous collaborators to the imperial order while trying to stamp down and maintain domination of it's "backyard" in Central and South America.
In other words western imperialism getting beaten back is the primary reason why a global war hasn't broken out (even though for most of the planet during the Cold War and almost the entire planet now being under the totality of international capital). Western imperialism was at it's zenith prior to 1914 and as Enzo Traverso has shown the period of 1914-1945 can be constituted as a civil war with it's heart in Western Europe between rival imperial powers(yes that includes modern Japan) with the colonized world caught in-between yet being given the opportunity to fight for liberation as the imperialist slaughtered themselves and the brutality of colonialism came home in the form of Fascism .
This is actually the strongest argument for the legitimacy of America Hegemony when made by someone whose even mildly intelligent. Of course it's still ludicrous for various reasons but the strongest being American primacy isn't the defining feature of the post WW2 make up of nations, contrary to even critics of American Primacy(Chomsky) . As Chavez himself pointed out the greatest change in the international system of the post WW2 era was the massive wave of independence movements in the colonized world , from Africa to South America , China, India, Indochina, West Asia and beyond. All of said movements (which varied in ideology but with Communism and progressive nationalism playing the largest role ) were and are a counterbalance against western imperialism. Along with the USSR through the Cold War of course. America then in it's post WW2 primacy took the mantle of restoring the previous collaborators to the imperial order while trying to stamp down and maintain domination of it's "backyard" in Central and South America.
In other words western imperialism getting beaten back is the primary reason why a global war hasn't broken out (even though for most of the planet during the Cold War and almost the entire planet now being under the totality of international capital). Western imperialism was at it's zenith prior to 1914 and as Enzo Traverso has shown the period of 1914-1945 can be constituted as a civil war with it's heart in Western Europe between rival imperial powers(yes that includes modern Japan) with the colonized world caught in-between yet being given the opportunity to fight for liberation as the imperialist slaughtered themselves and the brutality of colonialism came home in the form of Fascism .