The imperialist-Trumpist coup, with the kidnapping of Maduro and his wife, has obviously activated, in Pavlovian fashion, the conditioned reflexes of the twentieth century, Stalinism, and campism: “it's for the oil! it's like Iraq! it's imperialism (US, of course, always and only US) and it's Zionism,” etc. There is no understanding in this chorus — which functions to disarm the resistance and counter-attack of the working classes — of the obvious concrete reality emerging: Trump has (…)