@CaymanPilot @drip_drip_drip @randahl

One does not need to feel any enthusiasm for the current regime in #venezuela to call out what appears to be a remarkably anachronistic revival of something known as 'booty imperialism'. #bootyimperialism is a term I encountered when reading 'Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy' by #josephschumpeter many years ago. He applied it to #soviet policy in #manchuria and elsewhere in the late 1940s. Seizing foreign oilfields would fit this description.