{"id":14412,"date":"2026-01-03T14:10:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=14412"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:46:26","slug":"venezuela-and-the-new-world-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2026\/01\/03\/venezuela-and-the-new-world-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela and the new (old) world order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Cross-posting from <a href=\"https:\/\/terrestrialism.substack.com\/p\/venezuela-and-the-new-old-world-order\">Terrestri(e)alism<\/a>. These cross-posts will end, so please <a href=\"https:\/\/terrestrialism.substack.com\/about\">subscribe there<\/a> if you want to make sure you won&#8217;t miss any.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, taking over Venezuela is neither about democracy nor about drugs. It\u2019s about four closely related things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>oil<\/strong>, which means maintaining the fossil-fuel industrialism that is running the world into the ground;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>power<\/strong>, specifically the continuing anti-constitutional takeover of the United States, which requires something new every day to prevent opposition from consolidating;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>distraction<\/strong>, specifically, from the Epstein files and Trump\u2019s plummeting approval ratings; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>geopolitics<\/strong>, specifically, the neo-imperialistic carve-up of the world between authoritarian power blocs (at least three of them, with one, China, now being pushed aside from Venezuela).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the new world order, which is the final flaring up of fossil-fuel imperialism. Opposition to it will have to be bottom-up, anti-imperialist, and thoroughly ecological.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way to think about this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2025\/03\/06\/end-of-the-interregnum-or-just-the-beginning-of-its-end\/\">reconfiguration of the world<\/a>&nbsp;is as a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2023\/01\/31\/climate-change-as-class-war\/\">class antagonism<\/a>. (I present this idea in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2025\/11\/26\/terra-invicta-author-forum-open-access-info\/\">introductory chapter of&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2025\/11\/26\/terra-invicta-author-forum-open-access-info\/\">Terra Invicta<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;and am developing it further in a forthcoming publication.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>We could identify a historical series of \u201cclass antagonisms\u201d over the last 500 years: between colonizers and colonized groups, between landowners and serfs, between owners of capital and proletarianized workers, and between metropolitan elites and diverse subaltern populations. All of these have been made complex by internal divisions and cross-cutting filiations, including the emergence of \u201cmiddle classes\u201d as well as diverse international coalitions and alliances. Democracy has, in its different forms, largely (if not always) worked to mediate and mitigate these antagonisms, though also in uneven ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As authors like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-ca\/On+the+Emergence+of+an+Ecological+Class%3A+A+Memo-p-9781509555079\">Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-ca\/products\/775-climate-change-as-class-war\">Matthew Huber<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-us\/Nature+is+a+Battlefield%3A+Towards+a+Political+Ecology-p-9781509503773\">Razmig Keucheyan<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-ca\/products\/135-fossil-capital\">Andreas Malm<\/a>&nbsp;have variously argued, the globalization of climate change impacts comes marked by an emerging \u201cnew class antagonism.\u201d There is not yet any consensus on the constitution of these classes, which are hardly self-aware as such. But they are the best way to read current conflicts so as to guide our actions toward a better alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huber, for instance, pits an ecological \u201cworking class,\u201d the class of those \u201calienated from nature and forced to survive via the market,\u201d against a seemingly insurmountable enemy he calls (citing Malm) \u201cfossil capital.\u201d He defines the latter as including a long list of \u201cforms of capital that generate profit through emissions\u201d &#8212; \u201cextractive capital,\u201d \u201cindustrial capital,\u201d \u201celectricity capital,\u201d \u201cgreen capital\u201d (including \u201crenewable energy developers, carbon-offset swindlers, and an emergent field of innovation based on carbon removal [\u2026 and] geoengineering\u201d), \u201cfinance capital,\u201d the \u201crentier class,\u201d petroleum-exporting \u201clandlord states,\u201d the \u201cmiddle class\u201d of \u201cmanagers, supervisors, and other infantry enforcing the rule of capital,\u201d alongside \u201cpetty-bourgeosie\u201d small business owners and others. How the alienated global working class is to come to class consciousness is a question Huber leaves untheorized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latour and Schultz, on the other hand, define the \u201cecological class\u201d so expansively as to be almost everyone: the \u201cproletariat in the production of wealth,\u201d the women whose role in that production has long been unacknowledged, the colonized who have been subjected to \u201cunfair trading\u201d for centuries, \u201cthe living beings and the Earth system\u201d whose role as \u201cwealth producers\u201d the ecological crisis makes unassailable, indigenous peoples, \u201cthe next generations,\u201d \u201clarge swathes of the intellectual classes\u201d including Earth scientists and the \u201cengineers and inventors, whose desire for innovation has been shattered by the narrow constraints of production,\u201d \u201call the activists, militants, people of good will, ordinary citizens, peasants, gardeners, industrialists, investors, explorers in one capacity or other, not to mention all those who\u2019ve seen their territory disappear before their very eyes,\u201d and even \u201cthe religions\u201d who \u201crepresent huge forces and deep emotions that have already managed, over the course of the centuries, to transform souls, landscapes, the law, the arts,\u201d and who include \u201call those who work, rite after rite, to make sure that the \u2018cry of the Earth and the Poor\u2019 &#8212; to take up the beautiful expression (or, rather, cry!) of Pope Francis &#8212; is finally heard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The difference between these two variations of an \u201cecological class antagonism\u201d is not only a difference in who belongs and who is welcomed, but also in what the struggle is over: is it over \u201cownership and control of production,\u201d as Huber would have it, or something altogether more ontological, involving the \u201cforces of reproduction\u201d or \u201cengenderment,\u201d to use Latour and Schultz\u2019s term, but also identity and affiliation with place &#8212; the \u201cearthbound\u201d who have either attached themselves to the maintenance of specific places or have never managed to&nbsp;<em>detach<\/em>&nbsp;themselves in the first place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To propose identifiable names to this \u201cemerging antagonism,\u201d I suggest that it pits a&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2022\/12\/03\/the-global-precariat-and-its-enemies\/\">climate precariat<\/a><\/em>, whose vulnerability to climate change renders it hardly able to protect itself from climate-related eco-trauma, against a&nbsp;<em>fossil-fuel protectorate<\/em>, which, while divided in other respects, works together to protect its interests at others\u2019 expense. The two are defined less by their economic position than by their relative vulnerability and, relatedly, by their capacity (or lack of it) to shield themselves from the impacts of climate change through continued investment in the fossil-fuel energy regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forming a triangle with these two is a nascent third force, a kind of \u201cattractor\u201d that exercises an increasing pull on both, which I call an&nbsp;<em>energy transitionate<\/em>. The third force could ultimately take the form of a \u201cgreen capitalist\u201d alliance or a \u201cgreen social-democratic\u201d alliance, or more likely something with elements of both in an uneasy truce that would, at its best, harbor the potential of a global \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d reminiscent of the New Deal that defined U.S. politics in the two and a half decades after the end of World War Two, which are sometimes considered the \u201cgolden age\u201d of liberal capitalism. It wasn\u2019t utopia then, and neither can we look forward to utopia anytime soon. But it was a workable compromise between industry, labor, and the state that not only generated but spread wealth for millions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"219\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-11.43.07%E2%80%AFAM-400x219.png?resize=400%2C219&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14422\" style=\"width:630px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-11.43.07%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=400%2C219&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-11.43.07%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=300%2C164&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-11.43.07%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=275%2C150&amp;ssl=1 275w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-11.43.07%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=768%2C420&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-11.43.07%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=1536%2C840&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-11.43.07%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=2048%2C1120&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-03-at-11.43.07%E2%80%AFAM.png?w=1000 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This tripartite division is heuristic and theoretical; it hardly captures what is occurring in real-world relations between, say, the United States, Europe, China, Russia, and other nations or blocs. Yet sociopolitical and ecological conflicts around the world, in the interests and perceptions that shape them, might be read as marked by this antagonism and its third \u201cattractor.\u201d Defining what might be a possible compromise for a future of precarious earthly regeneration is the task of our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every global conflict today bears the marks of this ecological class antagonism. I make that case about the Russo-Ukrainian war in that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2025\/11\/26\/terra-invicta-author-forum-open-access-info\/\">introduction to&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2025\/11\/26\/terra-invicta-author-forum-open-access-info\/\">Terra Invicta<\/a><\/em>. Briefly, it\u2019s that the war is environmental not only in the targeting of environments, energy grids, and nuclear power plants, but in that its<em>&nbsp;causes<\/em>&nbsp;are ecopolitical. Russia is a declining petro-state and Ukraine\u2019s role as its gas pipeline go-between and industrial support is significant. Add to that the libidinally powerful pseudo-history&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2026\/01\/01\/the-russian-idee-fixe\">that Putin obsesses over<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; in which Ky\u00efv is the \u201cmother of Russian cities\u201d and Ukraine by definition his imperial cradle &#8212; and you have the psychologically potent mix of eco-irrationalism that feeds the Putinist ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. under Trump is fully on board with Putin\u2019s fossil-fuel interests (less so his Slavo-historical obsessions), and taking Venezuela is entirely consistent with its own fossil-fuel imperialism. Whether Cuba or Greenland will be next, the same set of interests obtains. And if it\u2019s Taiwan that is next in the ring of imperial dominoes, we might not have oil to blame, but history and semiconductors will both be part of the picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The task for those of us who want to see a better, more sustainable, regenerative, and just world, is to continue working from the ground up to make that world&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2022\/08\/16\/toward-a-non-fascist-ecocultural-activism\/\">possible<\/a>, and to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2025\/02\/16\/we-are-all-dispensable-for-a-revolution-of-the-means-of-information\/\">communicate<\/a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2025\/01\/05\/theory-for-a-hybrid-war-world\/\">vision<\/a>&nbsp;of it as clearly as we can. Our work is cut out for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_%21Etry%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e3e75b7-a8e6-4eee-b5e6-d4fbdf7e3004_1304x1294.png?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_%21Etry%21%2Cw_1456%2Cc_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e3e75b7-a8e6-4eee-b5e6-d4fbdf7e3004_1304x1294.png?w=500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:416px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>&#8220;Class triangle&#8221; image updated to be more viewer-friendly<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posting from Terrestri(e)alism. These cross-posts will end, so please subscribe there if you want to make sure you won&#8217;t miss any. No, taking over Venezuela is neither about democracy nor about drugs. It\u2019s about four closely related things: This is the new world order, which is the final flaring up of fossil-fuel imperialism. 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