I went to the World Social Forum in Caracas in 2006 and it was great: rife with tremendous energy, panels on anarchism and Zionism and post-capitalist social organization, on food supply and ecological agriculture and militarism and financial architecture, on Latin American integration and South-South links. It was really nice talk. The World Social Fora were […]
Before this blog transitioned to its currently deplorable state of total focus on I-P with a side-trade in Iranology, I wrote a lot about Venezuela. I intend to write more, but it requires too much time. I actually lived in Caracas for 3 months a couple years ago, and have on my screen in front of […]
To the Boston Review:
I read Claudio Lomnitz’s and Rafael Sánchez’s piece accusing Venezuela of manifesting “signs of state-directed anti-Semitism” with a mélange of surprise and shock. Surprise, because frankly, criticism of Venezuela veers far too frequently into the hysterical. Lomnitz’s and Sánchez’s piece was a subtler and more textured analysis of the “uses of hate” in […]