Is there any such thing as a Marxist regime without an invasion for territory?

The Soviets did it – in Chechnya and elsewhere inside the marginally consolidated Tsarist empire, including the vast booty they took in one quarter of the Ukraine in the aftermath of WWI. Then they moved on to other territories, including forays into Mongolia and Afghanistan over the years, as well as spreading their influence significantly in other nonmilitary manners.

Mao did it, rolling into Tibet and Xinjiang.

The Southeast Asians did it, with Vietnam invading Cambodia and China – which in both cases were curiously justifiable in the less ideological atmosphere of Southeast Asia. Vietnam and China are the only communist states that ever evolved.

Castro of Cuba did it – in spades. He first invaded Colombia and Venezuela in the aftermath of his vile ‘revolution’ and then spread bloodshed and death all through the South American continent and Central America, too, keeping his filthy paws off only Mexico. He menaced the U.S. with thwarted 9/11 style attacks, and he at least twice threatened to destroy the U.S. with nuclear weapons – in 1961 and 1982. Then he rained bloodshed and violence all through post-colonial Africa. He was an invader worse than all the others.

North Korea’s border wars are something of an invasion as is the armed-to-the-teeth DMV – and so are the sickola kidnappings of Japanese teenagers for indoctrination by the North all through the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

No form of regime was ever fonder of invasion and armament and violations of territorial boundaries than communist regimes throughout history. The facts speak for themselves.

What should be happening right now as Chavez consolidates his regime toward his brand of malevolent caudillo socialism?

He’s invading Bolivia. He’s got a puppet leader in the form of Evo Morales already sitting down there, and now he’s completing the process, not even trying to hide the fact anymore that he is now sending troops. Oh, he says he’s just there to help, but that’s what the empire of Napoleon III said when it sent its troops to Vera Cruz to install its Emporer Maximilian. The word ‘help’ is a malleable one indeed.

El Universal has the story of some 30 uniformed Venezuelan troops taking charge in Bolivia in this story here.