Venezuela: Nationalist Rulers Still Serve Capitalists

The crisis generated by capitalism is causing division within the ruling class that sees their profits decrease because of market competition while daily living conditions worsen for workers. Bosses use individualism, racism and nationalism to divide us and win us over to defend their wars for maximum profit.
While workers participate in this struggle, they wind up defending the ruling system, representing one or another capitalist side. The end result is the same or worse than the previous condition.
Historically we see endless examples of how the working class is manipulated and deceived by false “pro-working-class” movements. This is how — in Syria, Ukraine, South Africa, Bolivia, Venezuela and Colombia, among others — workers are involved in imperialist wars. Unfortunately the working class falls prey to this deception, which does not change our pitiful political and economic situation.
This is the case in Venezuela. Its traditional government as a lackey for the U.S. bosses became a nationalist one with a somewhat socialist front but now beholden to the rulers of Russia, China and Cuba — meaning to other capitalists. So now the Western bloc led by U.S. bosses which support fascist governments, as well as the media in Colombia, Panama, Chile and elsewhere, are trying to destabilize the “democratically” elected Venezuela government and portray it as the foremost violator of human rights.  
These same critics had supported the murder of more than 5,000 workers under Venezuela’s fascist government of Carlos Andres Perez. The international working class should never support any ruler who only looks to dampen the class struggle by buying political consciousness with crumbs that only maintain human misery and degradation. These modern “progressive” movements move the working class away from communism by defending private property, free trade and the investment of private capital — all of which enforces wage slavery for workers.
The imperialist power game over oil means capitalist genocide for workers. It has submerged Venezuela’s working class in a fratricidal fight that defends one group or another and results in killing each other.
What must be done? PL’ers are involved in some Bolivarian organizations and discontented sectors, reaching out with our messages of support and solidarity to build a revolutionary communist movement. We denounce “supreme saviors.” We do not worship the Chavezes, Maduros, Petros or Obamas. We put our communist program forward in the class struggles to strengthen proletarian internationalism and introduce our paper CHALLENGE to spread our revolutionary philosophy, using it as our tool of combat. Join us.