https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Seven-keys-for-understanding-the-current-crisis https://internationalviewpoint.org/Seven-keys-for-understanding-the-current-crisis 2017-05-19T14:22:15Z text/html en Emiliano Teran Mantovani Venezuela <p>It is not possible to understand the current crisis in Venezuela without analysing the factors that develop “from within” and are not entirely explained by the mainstream media. We offer here seven keys to the current crisis, emphasizing that understanding what is happening in Venezuela requires taking foreign intervention into account and being aware that the concept of “dictatorship” neither explains the Venezuelan case nor is a regional specificity of this country. We suggest that the social contract, the institutions and the frameworks of the formal economy are breaking down and that the future and the political definitions of the current situation are being channelled by force, through a number of informal mechanisms, exceptional and subterranean. We propose that the shared horizon of the two ruling party blocs is neo-liberal, that we are faced with a historical crisis of Venezuelan rentier capitalism and that communities, popular organizations and social movements are facing a progressive undermining of the social fabric.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV508-May-2017-" rel="directory">IV508 - May 2017</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Venezuela-+" rel="tag">Venezuela</a>