Socialism always starts as a “people’s movement,” with mindless and ignorant people being directed by elitist con men in the background, telling the foolish that by bringing down the “rich,” everyone will share in the abundance that socialism will bring. It is always a lie, and invariably almost all the people end up in poverty, with the exception of the top socialist leaders who live like kings. Fidel Castro is certainly one who has lived that life, and his protege, Hugo Chavez destroyed the Venezuelan economy pursuing the same socialist policies.
When the economy comes crashing down, it is necessary for the leadership to blame an outside source, and when Chavez was alive, he continually named the United States for all of the woes the country was suffering from. In fact, the oil rich country provides 9 percent of the U.S. gross oil imports, which must be a considerable sum of export income to the nation of 30 million people. As such, the U.S. provided a huge portion of the countries income, but Chavez resented that as well.
Venezuela has expropriated foreign and domestic businesses, which means that the people have little invested in the country and are becoming very unhappy with the leadership as it nosedives to complete economic ruin.
For more on the Venezuelan “people’s paradise,” see page 2:
Jesse Delfin wtf r you guys up to
communism is also economy, it’s just regulated by the govt even more so than socialism.
Interesting Alex Luis Ascencio.. It’s Bernie a socialist?
F**e post guys picture is old
no I’m As far from liberal as one could be and I think you need to read what I wrote again and the economy is a measurement of the state of a specified area. Seriously I don’t think you understood anything I wrote.
a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole…. That is socialism… Venezuela doesn’t fall under it.
And then the rich manipulate the market and skim off the top and the greedy government destroyed the country not socialism.
Omg… read through a friggin dictionary… please.
You don’t get to change the meaning of words because it feels right to you.
Words have established meanings tp them.
Now go fucking read the definitions of the words you are debating.
Ryan Lee….
Did you actually say that capitalism is a form of government?
Are you stupid?
…but but but its not “Democratic” socialism, if it was “democratic socialism it would have totally worked…. (Sarcasm)