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Santiago Licata (Argentine, b. 1986)

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While political agitation must at times be adapted for a public steeped in propagandized precognitions, I believe the common liberal's point that Harris would not have kidnapped Maduro and Flores shows the very shallow limitations of an understanding of imperialism that boils down to military, and to a limited extent economic, aggression. Speculating if Harris would have done x or y thing differently of the same is useless insofar as you're looking to uncover the mechanisms and conclusions of capitalism's imperialist stage. A Harris administration would have unequivocally pursued a continuation of US influence in Latin America, as every single US presidency has since Haiti's revolution. The question of the specific methods and forms are secondary to the exact same underlying motivations for the preservation of a global economic system that hinges on the unequal relations between capitalist states, as important as they are to pick apart within that framework. If you understand imperialism as being identified with military intervention, you'd believe imperialism is a policy like any other that disappears and reappears according to the whims of foreign policy makers. Imperialism is the very foundation the current capitalist world economy which will spend both blood and diplomatic goodwill in the pursuit of its self-preservation.

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