The bourgeoisie is not content with seeking to directly enlist the proletariat in its wars; it also relies on its left-wing organisations to push the proletariat to accept sacrifices and rally behind this or that bourgeois faction, deemed more ‘progressive’, ‘anti-imperialist’, etc.
Part of the left is thus calling for support for Maduro against Trump's adventures in Venezuela. For the British Trotskyist group Socialist Workers Party (SWP), "there can be no ambiguity or prevarication within the left and the trade union movement: the overthrow of Maduro by the United States will only delay the struggle for liberation in Venezuela and throughout Latin America. […] Take to the streets, show your solidarity with the Venezuelan people who are resisting imperialism, demand that the British government condemn Trump's gangster invasion." In truth, Venezuela’s ‘21st-century socialism’ is nothing but a sham, an abominable machine for exploiting the working class, a regime that has brutally repressed the struggles of the working class. This “beacon for the left, progressive movements and resistance to imperialism” (according to the SWP) has driven eight million migrants (out of a population of 28 million) to flee poverty and repression.
Similarly, fighting Trump's ambitions in Greenland would be tantamount to preserving ‘European values’. For one of the leaders of La France Insoumise, Manuel Bompard, France should “obviously” defend Greenland militarily in the event of an attack by the United States. Let us remember, however, that it is this democratic Europe that is pursuing the same policies of plunder and destruction in Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere! Its ‘values’ did not prevent the Danish state in the past from carrying out despicable eugenics campaigns against a population that it now claims to protect from American appetites!
Despite this, Trotskyism still manages to sell us its nationalist rubbish by defending Greenland's independence: “As anti-imperialists and internationalists, we declare our unconditional solidarity with the struggle for self-determination of the communities of Greenland,” in the words of the Révolution Permanente group in France. This is what internationalism means to the left wing of capital: calling for the creation of a new imperialist actor that would inevitably join forces with the United States, Russia, or even China to defend its national interests!
There is nothing left to hope for from capitalist society! Everywhere, the bourgeoisie exploits and murders! Everywhere, wars are conflicts between competing nations, between rival bourgeoisies, where the exploited die for the sole benefit of the exploiters, of whom the leftists are the most zealous representatives!
EG, 15 January 2026