Only a 6 minute video and he managed to fit in:
- Chavez and Maduro betraying the revolution and not building socialism,
- Maduro outlawing “the actual communists”,
- Venezuela supposedly never took any serious steps to diversify its economy from oil,
- Russian and Chinese imperialism,
- Some big bourgeoisie are “puppets of China and Russia”,
- Russian imperialism in Ukraine,
- China debt-trapping Venezuela.
His conclusion: “we should not advocate for return of Maduro to power”.
He also managed to confuse the separate events of the US striking the fishing boats and the US pirating the oil tankers arriving at “these boats were supposedly transporting drugs while many were in reality obviously oil tankers going to Cuba” as if he didn’t pay any attention before and did some last-minute research before making the video.
You’re of course right that Turkey is quite reactionary. But Global South really just means “Not-Global North”. It’s not a coherent block.
As you must be aware, Turkey while formally being a NATO member, did not really follow the NATO line of “Russia bad”; nor did it follow the “Guaido is the president of Venezuela” line like the EU. It often opportunistically aligns with the West, like by helping with the assault on Syria; but economically, it increasingly follows an independent line (compare that to all the EU vassal states).
Indonesia also did a genocide against its own people in the 70s with US help, yet it’s one of the most important economies in BRICS now. India is similarly torn between East and West, like Turkey. There’s a reason all 3 of those countries are classified as “non-aligned”.
Again, Global South doesn’t mean “good”.
This was a good critique; I’ll take it. Feel free to recommend me to sources to read.
No worries, Turkiye is definitely one of the more subtler cases.
Btw, you seem to be a Turkish comrade. How seriously is the whole Turkiye vs Turkey taken? I didn’t mean to be inconsiderate, I just rolled with the name the article was using.
It’s not problem at all. I support the change since Turkiye is more correct name for the country.