"Venezuelan Socialism" Now Venezuelan Communism
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Was anyone really naive enough to think that Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez would stop at "evil, greedy, foreign" ExxonMobil?
Stealing a pizza from a rich man and declaring it "collective food" does little good after the collective has eaten it. Stealing a pizzeria from a rich man and declaring it "collective property" does little good after the collective realizes it doesn't know how to cook a pizza. They'll trip and stumble, producing ("inexplicably" in their minds) fewer pizzas than the pizza man did. What few pizzas are produced will be seized by the government, to be handed out to "important" elites.
Soon supplies will disappear, to be diverted to the black market. Perhaps the collective will have to try baking pizzas with no gas, electricity or oil, after the government allocates ever-dwindling energy supplies to "more important" industries. Eventually the members of the pizza collective will simply eat the raw dough, drink the tomato sauce, watch the oven rust into junk metal -- and then starve to death. All the while blaming the pizza owner, or the pizzeria down the street, or the bank, or the United States. But they, in their own minds, will have remained noble, pure, and untainted by "greedy" capitalism. All the way to an early grave.
Don't believe me?
Behold thesocialist communist paradise. Same as it ever was...
President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that his administration plans to create "collective property" as part of sweeping reforms toward socialism, and that officials would move to seize control of large ranches and redistribute lands deemed "idle."At this point I think it's fair to reclassify Chavez, not as a socialist, but as a communist. We'll make it "small-c communist" to distinguish him from the Soviet-era (and Chinese) totalitarians.
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"It's property that belongs to everyone and it's going to benefit everyone," said Chavez, who vowed to undermine capitalism's continued influence in Venezuela.
Stealing a pizza from a rich man and declaring it "collective food" does little good after the collective has eaten it. Stealing a pizzeria from a rich man and declaring it "collective property" does little good after the collective realizes it doesn't know how to cook a pizza. They'll trip and stumble, producing ("inexplicably" in their minds) fewer pizzas than the pizza man did. What few pizzas are produced will be seized by the government, to be handed out to "important" elites.
Soon supplies will disappear, to be diverted to the black market. Perhaps the collective will have to try baking pizzas with no gas, electricity or oil, after the government allocates ever-dwindling energy supplies to "more important" industries. Eventually the members of the pizza collective will simply eat the raw dough, drink the tomato sauce, watch the oven rust into junk metal -- and then starve to death. All the while blaming the pizza owner, or the pizzeria down the street, or the bank, or the United States. But they, in their own minds, will have remained noble, pure, and untainted by "greedy" capitalism. All the way to an early grave.
Don't believe me?
The government has been forced to import food amid shortages of staples such as meats, milk and sugar.This -- in one of the most oil-rich nations on earth.
Behold the
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