This analysis, written by Italian economist Luciano Vasapollo, leader of the Network of Communists, points out that Cuba is in the crosshairs of US imperialism because of what it represents, and its defense is not only military or diplomatic: it is a permanent war of position, in the economic, cultural, symbolic, and social spheres.
“The intensification of US aggression against Cuba, in the context of the frontal attack on Bolivarian Venezuela, is not an accident of history nor a momentary deviation from Washington’s foreign policy,” Vasapollo, who is also a co-founder of the Italian chapter of the Network of Intellectuals in Defense of Humanity, states.
The simultaneous attack on both nations, he says, “reveals the specificity of the current phase: the empire strikes where experiences of solidarity-based cooperation, social planning, and regional integration emerge as alternatives to the global market dominated by financial capital.”
“The empire strikes at experiences that, even amidst contradictions and difficulties, have challenged its hegemony on the continent, building practices of solidarity-based cooperation, social planning, and integration as alternatives to the global capitalist market,” the analyst emphasizes.
This aggressive escalation is “the coherent expression of an organic crisis of capitalist imperialism, which can no longer govern through hegemony and is increasingly resorting to coercion,” he stated, quoting the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci.
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