From Bernie Sanders to the UK Labour party, from the Democratic Socialists of America to fatuous Hollywood celebrities, the Bolivarian Revolution was the great "anti-capitalist" shining hope for the left.
Venezuela is just the latest example that EVERY Marxist-inspired government quickly devolves from professed idealism into totalitarian mafioso regimes. The Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact countries, Cuba, North Korea, Ethiopia, and now Venezuela.
We need a graveyard for bad ideas that have been tried and repeatedly failed, to ensure they are not resurrected like zombies. That would include Marxism, supply-side economics, industry self-regulation, racial essentialism (both the right wing and left wing varieties), and more.
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Poor Venezuela, condemned to live in misery and hunger, in spite of its riches from fossil fuels, because of a corrupt, deeply incompetent and insecure dictator named Nicolas Maduro. As to his persecution of any and all that dare criticize his stupid misgivings and injustice in the making. And now, insult upon harm, Maduro has the gall to oust the UN from witnessing his abuse, so he may go on killing his own people out of ego and rage. How disgraceful can it get, without seeking urgent ways for the UN to remove this cruel beast from undeserved power, and restore some dignity to ordinary venezuelans?
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