I’m sure we’re going to hear from new york times liberals any minute about this, and how this is a violation of democracy.
My concern with Bolivia, the BLM movement and any other future revolutionary situation is actually largely technical. In my mind, I basically tune out all the elections, all the supposed laws, how many people have been oppressed and whatnot to focus on a question of physics. Is your force > your enemy’s force? If no, so what if the fascists kill, torture, imprison a billion people? At the end of the day, you are still powerless to stop them.
Like yeah, we can complain and moan about the various injustices the capitalist state and the fash are committing till the cows come home. How we actually emerge victorious and seize power will still ultimately have to be answered.
Basically, with regards to Bolivia specifically, I’m interested in what the Bolivian people can do if the OAS does intervene. What will they do when the fascists stop pretending the legal system has any actual power and start ruling with the power that grows out of the barrel of a gun?
Well, they’ve been protesting a lot and as a result, the government has been using that military on them. If the OAS does something, I’d think it’ll escalate into some kind of conflict.
It’s bad to pick fights that can’t be won though. What Bolivia needs is a vanguard that can organise an effective resistance first.
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I’m sure that MAS isn’t universally loved, but given what they had with Evo, they’re starting to think “maybe it wasn’t so bad.”
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didn’t like Evo
Did they have coherent reasons or was it just pure racism?
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