The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded its 2025 Peace Prize to the leader of Venezuela’s far-right opposition, Maria Corina Machado, an event that is as significant as it is sinister.
The award was announced on October 9 in Oslo, Norway, a country whose wealth, strategic role in NATO, and large military investments position it as a bulwark for imperialist interests in Europe and beyond.
The award provides a glaring demonstration of the hypocrisy of capitalist public opinion as it is marshaled behind another catastrophic imperialist intervention in Latin America.
There is nothing unprecedented about bestowing the peace prize upon far-right or blood-drenched figures. If “political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,” as American songwriter, satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer quipped in 1973, the award to Machado hammers another nail into its coffin.
In the years in between, the prize went to mass murderers and war criminals such as Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, the former Irgun terrorist responsible for the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon, and Aung San Suu Kyi, whose government was responsible for genocidal violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority. Barack Obama received the award in 2009, on the eve of launching a major military surge in Afghanistan and as his government was unleashing a wave of drone assassinations. Then as now, the prize served not as a reward to peacemakers, but as a tool for anointing those favored by imperialism and to legitimize war.
Listening to her interview on NPR was kind of wild
She had nothing but praise for Trump and defended the decision to bomb the boats in the Caribbean. Then she made a bunch of proclamations about accepting US intervention for enforcing regime change, and then advocated for doing the same in Cuba and Nicaragua
Once Maduro goes and we liberate our country, the Cuban regime will follow, the Nicaraguan regime will follow.
And for the first time in history, for the first time in history, we will have the Americas free of communism and narco dictatorships
Ive heard a few people ask if she’s a CIA asset, amd while I don’t think it’s appropriate to speculate, I can see why the question is asked. The American State Department has been trying to install western-backed regimes in central and south America since the cold war.
Part of the reason we even have narco states in the south is because of the decades long proxy battle happening there.
The Nobel prize has a weird amount of legitimacy for how often it backs western regime change
I want Greta Thunberg to win the next one so badly.
Classic @[email protected] propaganda post
Focus on the substance, here’s the evidence laid bare: Geopolitical Economy Report. Stop acting reflexively ignorant.
Good thing you linked to a video from a group with a Marxist name to convince us that the World Socialist Web Site article is legit.
Yes, you are correct in that Geopolitical economy is a contemporary Marxist approach to understanding the capitalist world historically. I don‘t see the problem. You scared of Marxism? If billionaire owned western media does not provide factual reporting, you‘ll have to go elsewhere.
As I said, focus on the substance. Do you believe what is shown there is wrong? Like, the tweets of Machado or the quoted reporting from more mainstream outlets?
When I read the title, I thought the OP had editorialised it. Then, I clicked through and realised it was editorialised by the source itself. This is not serious news. It is effectively opinion. It does not belong here. Read the rules again, OP.
OP posts articles from WSWS all the time. They all have a Marxist bent. They have to link every news story to how the workers of the world are getting screwed in some way.
There are a lot to choose from in this article, so I’ll just include the one that indicates disdain for Stalin, as WSWS is very much in favor of Trotskyism. They don’t like Chavez and Maduro, but for all the wrong reasons.
However, with the aid of their Stalinist, Social Democratic and Pabloite hangers-on, these governments have fostered illusions that sustainable social and democratic gains could be secured for workers and poor peasants and imperialist oppression opposed on the basis of a nationalist program, without overthrowing capitalism.
It’s pretty accurate tho
Fuck WSWS. They support russian genocidal imperialism!
Yes a tankie propaganda site. You would need to read an evidence based publication to decide if she deserves the prize or not
You are a national extremist, using dehumanizing language (roaches, degenerates) against your politcal opponents. Things that fascists do. People should ignore you, Mods should ban you.
The claim, that socialist journalism supports “russian genocidal imperialism” is counterfactual, based on a deep misunderstanding what their analysis means and directed by your own ideological encrustation.
No, it is fair to call disgusting tankies roaches and degenerates.
There is no ideology involved. “North Korea is a great place to live and is a vanguard against imperialism” is not a serious statement.
We both know that the vast majority of tankies are bored teenagers and malicious demagogues. Don’t play dumb with me.
The tankie source does support russian genocidal imperialism.
You don’t even speak Ukrainian or russian and have never. You’re in no position talk about “deep misunderstanding”.
Thanks for proving my point.
No, it is fair to call disgusting tankies roaches and degenerates. There is no ideology involved.
Like, lol. But alright, let’s go, I bite.
No sane person would confirm, that it’s “fair” to use dehumanizing language. That statement only shows how far off the rails you are. But alright, what’s a tankie for you? I asked in the past, you didn’t answer. Every russian? People that support a socialist agenda? You use that as a blanket statement, as a degoratory generalisation against people that do not support your hate-fueled diarrhea. And the hate comes through in the form of dehumanising hate speech. Thanks for affirming that.
“North Korea is a great place to live and is a vanguard against imperialism” is not a serious statement.
Okay sure, so you do not think that North Korea does exist in a constant struggle against capitalist takeover? Sure, that’s an acceptable take. But why do you have to make things up and generalise, again, to then throw that fantasy take as a blanket over every “tankie”? I’m sure, there might once has been some person that might have said that, but what does that prove about anyone else, other than that person? You do realise this is disingenuous and dumb, right?
We both know that the vast majority of tankies are bored teenagers and malicious demagogues. Don’t play dumb with me.
I reject every part of that take - you seem to be living in oppositve-world. It’s driven by your ideological hate towards leftist thought. Do you ever leave your flat? Why do you keep generalising towards your degoratory use of the word “tankie”, only to excuse yourself to dehumanise people?
The tankie source does support russian genocidal imperialism.
Without yapping, prove their support for “russian genocidal imperialism”, and while doing that, please also prove the “genocidal” part. And I mean support, you know what the word means, right? Again, not just some kind of position that’s not in line with your hope and dreams for your national purity.
“The pattern shows that accusations of supporting ‘Russian genocidal imperialism’ primarily come from centrist liberals, NATO supporters, and establishment political figures who use these extreme characterizations to delegitimize any leftist critique of Western foreign policy, regardless of whether those leftists actually support Russian actions or simply advocate for diplomatic solutions and criticism of all imperial powers.” Some AI summary, because I can’t be bothered to do more for you.
You don’t even speak Ukrainian or russian and have never. You’re in position talk about “deep misunderstanding”
*no position You excluding my opinion based on nationality or language (without actually knowing which languages I speak) is an immature ad hominem, a clear sign of your nationalist character and also displays your lack of understanding socialist or communist thought. Are you claiming, that “tankies” are always russian or that every socialist is a tankie? What you say doesnt even make any sense. What’s with socialist Ukrainians, are they tankie cockroaches, too? So, do I either have to be a tankie or an enemy of a tankie to actually understand either take and formulate an opinion on them? You do have opinions on Palestine and Israel, I’ve seen. But you’re neither. You see the problem?
You’re full of shit and you are a hateful nationalist. Get fucked.
You know exactly what a tankie is, don’t play dumb.
I will most definitely call out idiots who roleplay as communists online and don’t speak any other languages. No one is buying your bullshit about “Ukrainian socialists”. The communists party of Ukraine was a russian proxy force. Genuine Ukrainian socialists (or anyone for that matter) would want nothing to do with some online roleplayers who come up with degenerate statements such “North Korea is the vanguard against imperialism!” and support russian genocidal imperialism.
It is amazing how the tankies are cuddling up to the fascists in support of Russian imperialism
Watch carefully. You won’t see civilization fall apart at this rate twice in a lifetime.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
