"Curiously, despite the obvious disparity between the military’s lies and reality, the American people, or at least their representatives in Congress, have largely bought those lies in bulk and at astronomical prices. Yet this country’s refusal to face the facts of defeat has only ensured ever more disastrous military interventions. The result: a self-defeating military, engorged with money, lurching toward yet more defeats even as it looks over its shoulder at an increasingly falsified past."
truthout.org/articles/the-us-military-has-a-legacy-of-wars-without-victory-and-weapons-without-end/
truthout.org/articles/the-us-military-has-a-legacy-of-wars-without-victory-and-weapons-without-end/
Truthout
The US Military Has a Legacy of Wars Without Victory and Weapons Without End
The only battles the Pentagon has won over the last 75 years are the ones for our taxpayer dollars.
"when a citizenry gains the ability to democratically allocate funds, they grow increasingly excited about directing those funds to other participatory institutions, especially workers’ cooperatives"
https://dsa-lsc.org/2017/09/30/organizing-beyond-the-point-of-production/
https://dsa-lsc.org/2017/09/30/organizing-beyond-the-point-of-production/
DSA Libertarian Socialist Caucus
Organizing Beyond the Point of Production
Marxists tend to emphasize the importance of organizing labor in workplaces or “the point of production.” In this pamphlet, the author sketches out the limitations of a dogmatically labor-centric approach and outlines the radical potential of workers’ cooperatives…
"Much of what had once made Venezuela an attractive model was deeply contradictory. The Venezuelan process combined diverse forms of popular empowerment with ultra-charismatic leadership; redistribution of oil wealth that involved bureaucratic-military cliques sacking the resources of the state; communal democracy from below with authoritarian forms from above; a discourse of socialist planning with very limited capacity for public management"
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/implosion-bolivarian-revolution
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/implosion-bolivarian-revolution
Dissent Magazine
The Implosion of the Bolivarian Revolution | Dissent Magazine
Because anti-imperialist discourse in Latin America serves short-term political purposes, the latter-day defenders of Chavismo have little interest in studying the political dynamics and concrete geostrategic interests behind really existing empire.