[We publish here our translation of a recent commentary by our comrades from Proletarios Revolucionarios in Ecuador about the recent US military action within Venezuela.
The original Spanish version can be found here.]
What is happening today in Venezuela was already largely foreseen, analysed, and addressed in 2015:
https://proletariosrevolucionarios.blogspot.com/2015/05/notas-sobre-venezuela-2015.html
Now, given all the garbage circulating in the media and on social networks, we feel it necessary to highlight and update three points from this article:
1. Communist theory prioritizes class analysis over geopolitical analysis and even over economic and political analysis:
The U.S. is invading Venezuela primarily to prevent an uncontrollable proletarian revolt both in Venezuela and in the U.S. itself, given their increasingly worsening material conditions and the history of revolts in both countries in recent years. This is a preventive counterrevolution on a global scale by the one who is still the ultimate leader, manager, and policeman of the global Capital-State. It is the dialectic between class war and imperialist war in action. Capitalist war is always a war against the proletariat. This is the foundation or real basis of this class conflict, not a conflict between nations.
After this, other reasons emerge, namely: using the war industry and seizing Venezuelan oil to revive the crisis-stricken US economy and compensate for the falling rate of profit and devaluation (economic analysis); overthrowing the leftist government of “21st-century socialism” because it failed in its historical task of effectively managing the current capitalist crisis from the state in that strategic territory, and instead installing a right-wing, perhaps “neo-fascist,” government to do so (political analysis); and, of course, obtaining more resources and a better strategic position within the inter-imperialist competition against China, Russia, and Iran (geopolitical analysis).
In short: communist theory prioritizes class analysis over geopolitical, economic, and political analysis.
2. The Invariant Position of Proletarian Internationalism and Revolutionary Defeatism:
Class analysis in this type of conjuncture underpins the internationalist communist position that only the revolutionary struggle of the international proletariat can defeat the international bourgeoisie in war.
In this case, this implies that the proletariat of the US region must fight against the US bourgeoisie and state, and that the proletariat of the Venezuelan region must fight against the Venezuelan bourgeoisie and state. The same applies to Palestine, Ukraine, etc. Every bourgeoisie and their states must be defeated through the transformation of the imperialist war into a revolutionary class war on a global scale.
This, in turn, implies rejecting any “anti-imperialist,” sovereignist, patriotic, or nationalist position—typical of the reactionary left wing of Latin American capital—which always defends one of the two bourgeoisies and their states at war, both of which are always, together, against the international proletariat.
In short: what we have here is a class struggle, not a struggle between nations. And therefore, only the world proletarian revolution can defeat imperialist war, or rather, capitalism and its wars.
3. The predictive and preparatory nature of communist theory:
If our 2015 article already foresaw what is happening today, in 2026, between Venezuela and the U.S., it is because foresight is part of the nature of communist theory. Obviously, since then, the facts and the players on the scene have changed, etc.; but the structures, dynamics, and trends of capitalism and the class struggle remain the same. However, that’s only half the story, so to speak. The other half is preparation. Along with radically and mercilessly explaining and criticizing everything that exists, communist theory aims to prepare the international proletariat for class war and worldwide social revolution.
Historically speaking, today it is once again the Latin American proletariat’s turn to fight, since in this region war is literally just around the corner (the US is not only invading Venezuela, but has already threatened to invade Cuba, Colombia, and Brazil). Sooner rather than later, it will be time to position ourselves, organize, arm ourselves, and act. Not to “defend the sovereignty of the great homeland against Yankee imperialism,” but to fight and defeat the international bourgeoisie and all its national factions. It will mean using class analysis, proletarian internationalism, and revolutionary defeatism as material weapons and contributing from this region to the global communist revolution.
In sum: communist theory aims to prepare the international proletariat for class war and world social revolution.
Proletarios Hartos de Serlo (Proletarians Tired of Being Proletarians)
Quito, January 2026
League of Internationalist Communists 