Venezuelan Jacobins by George CiccarielloMaher Only the Venezuelan sans culottes can save the Bolivarian Revolution. AFP / Juan Barreto The slaves destroyed tirelessly. . . From their masters they had known rape, torture, degradation, and, at the slightest provocation, death… they did as they had been taught. . . And yet they were surprisingly moderate. . . far more humane than their masters had been or would ever be to them. . . The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. —C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins