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Yes, Venezuela Is a Socialist Catastrophe; In the age of A.O.C., the lesson must be learned again.

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Indeed. Here we have the New Democrats espousing some of the CATASTROPHIC IDEAS that cost over 100 million lives in the 20th century..in PEACETIME, and have led Venezuela to its downfall.



Yes, Venezuela Is a Socialist Catastrophe

In the age of A.O.C., the lesson must be learned again.


Conspicuous by its absence in much of the mainstream news coverage of Venezuela’s political crisis is the word “socialism.” Yes, every sensible observer agrees that Latin America’s once-richest country, sitting atop the world’s largest proven oil reserves, is an economic basket case, a humanitarian disaster, and a dictatorship whose demise cannot come soon enough.

But … socialist? Perish the thought.

Curiously, that’s not how the Venezuelan regime’s admirers used to speak of “21st century socialism,” as it was dubbed by Hugo Chávez. The late Venezuelan president, said Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn, “showed us there is a different and a better way of doing things. It’s called socialism, it’s called social justice, and it’s something that Venezuela has made a big step toward.” Noam Chomsky was similarly enthusiastic when he praised Chávez in 2009. “What’s so exciting about at last visiting Venezuela,” the linguist said, is that “I can see how a better world is being created and can speak to the person who’s inspired it.”



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/...5AvKGadC3CbC4HNzw-VZLRxRHSwvS_jJvo761F0oRz4AQ

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