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RE: Turmoil in Venezuela - Looking at the Brutal Reality of a Failed State (through #GooglyEyes)
Great post I live in the UK and the crisis happening in Venezuela is hardly ever shown on the mainstream news channels . But what i have seen on the news doesn't look too good with people paying for everyday essentials at
hugely inflated prices.
And to imagine that a decade ago the country was doing just excellent. How is it even possible to come to all this?! Truly baffling to imagine how monetary doctrine and political struggles can create so much misery in such a short time.
One of the venezuelan president, current or former, said to be a Trotskyist. People need to realize that mass-media is leftist and politicians mainly too, so they talk all that bullshit of well doing economy and so on, but truth is that some one with actual economical understanding can tell quickly it is fucked up before leftards even realize. Modern goverment forms are more like eels, they live when they can suck natural resources, then collapse.
so... what's at the core of the problem then? because I can't quite make up my mind yet.
I have to agree on your last point about modern government! Though, the creature you meant to compare it to is probably a leech, not an eel.
Thanks for correcting that leech*. Core problem is that guy was a communist, which led him to go for goverments total-control. Goverment trying to take care of everything creates massive amount of unnescesary byrocracy and mid-mens, eating all the profit. It is also a fact that micro-managing is not realy a job for state because it leads to empty shelvs because of systems incapablity to get feed-back. Also I'm not sure theres been too many Trotskyist in the last 50 years. I think that Trotskyism has been kind of dead from the get go, but it's main idea however is that communism must be violently spreat everywere around the world or it won't work.
total government control... heck, government control in general usually doesn't lead to good things!
But I am not sure where you are going with this "Trotskyist" thing and it appears you aren't certain yourself, taking into account that you weren't even sure if it's the common or former leader you are referring to.
I don't think Venezuela has been engaged in trying to spread communism?! But I cannot claim too know much about the situation, so correct me there if necessary, please!
I'm trying to say that the president didn't make any sense him self. Yeah, I have not dug too deep into what this trtskyism excactly other than violent spread of communism everywere. Wikipedia page basically just says that Trotsyism has very little differences to leninism.