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Socialism in the 21st Century: Venezuela
Posted on 8/1/17 at 7:43 pm
Posted on 8/1/17 at 7:43 pm
Brilliant minds in well functioning capitalist systems disagree on economic controls to maintain market stability. Not only do they often fail at predicting outcomes, they disagree and have trouble even analyzing events after the fact.
Which leads me to my point concerning socialism, which has failed humanity in such epic fashion. Relatively the less wealthy and less intelligent will always outnumber the wealthy and intelligent. Socialism's dangerous combination of economic ignorance coupled with a complete disregard of human instincts is the witch's brew of economic destruction.
This leads us to a situation like Venezuela, where a former bus driver reigns as dictator over a nation with the worlds largest oil reserves who now have no toilet paper and dig through the trash for food.
Which leads me to my point concerning socialism, which has failed humanity in such epic fashion. Relatively the less wealthy and less intelligent will always outnumber the wealthy and intelligent. Socialism's dangerous combination of economic ignorance coupled with a complete disregard of human instincts is the witch's brew of economic destruction.
This leads us to a situation like Venezuela, where a former bus driver reigns as dictator over a nation with the worlds largest oil reserves who now have no toilet paper and dig through the trash for food.
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Posted on 8/1/17 at 7:45 pm to Strannix
I will upvote this post on the condition we're using the Marxist definition of socialism and not "capitalism with a welfare state," please advise.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 7:45 pm to Strannix
They still have one invaluable commodity: the world's hottest women. When will we be granting them refugee status?
Posted on 8/1/17 at 7:50 pm to Strannix
Posted on 8/1/17 at 7:51 pm to Iosh
Capitalism with a welfare state is capitalism.....
Posted on 8/1/17 at 8:08 pm to Seldom Seen
Am I looking at what I think I am?
Posted on 8/1/17 at 8:10 pm to Iosh
The area on the Venn Diagram of the intersection between Venezuelan left wing nutjobs and US left wing nutjobs is substantial
Posted on 8/1/17 at 8:12 pm to Strannix
quote:Yabbut... next time it will be different!
Which leads me to my point concerning socialism, which has failed humanity in such epic fashion.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 8:13 pm to cokebottleag
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Am I looking at what I think I am?
What the government rewarding loyal soldiers with their very own pack of tp? Why yes, you are.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 9:12 pm to Seldom Seen
quote:I wonder how long they have to make it last.
What the government rewarding loyal soldiers with their very own pack of tp?
Posted on 8/1/17 at 9:34 pm to cokebottleag
quote:Yep, the glorious toilet paper presentation ceremony.
Am I looking at what I think I am?
Posted on 8/1/17 at 9:37 pm to Strannix
Would love to get Ralph Wiggum's explanation on how its not "real" socialism 
Posted on 8/1/17 at 9:52 pm to DrunkerThanThou
Maduro is doing a very bad job right now, but Venezuela's economy didn't collapse because of "socialism". It collapsed because oil prices completely tanked, and their economy was extremely dependent on oil exports.
Posted on 8/1/17 at 10:00 pm to cokebottleag
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Am I looking at what I think I am?
Looks like those kits they gave you when you moved into the dorm during the fall semester..
This post was edited on 8/1/17 at 10:02 pm
Posted on 8/2/17 at 1:32 am to Asharad
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I wonder how long they have to make it last.
Until their next promotion
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