The self-isolation of Venezuela and Iran

What lies behind the "anti-imperialist" brouhaha of two of the most "progressive" strongmen of the world. From today's editorial of Christian Science Monitor:

The self-isolation of Iran and Venezuela comes out of a faulty vision in economics and a heavy hand in reducing democracy down to autocracy. The more they try to use oil wealth to win other nations over to an anti-US axis, the more they put their weak policies on display. Some revolutions aren't very revolutionary.