RE: ADSactly World - Is Venezuela a socialist country? What about Scandivanian countries?
Hi. Thank you for touching such an important topic for my country. I have always thought that Venezuela is not a socialist country, at all. It is assumed that the socialist countries develop policies in favor of improving the quality of life of their citizens, and that has not happened in Venezuela. Nor are their rulers supposed to be enriched by the public era, which has happened in Venezuela. What we have today in the country, is a band of criminals who took advantage of a supposedly socialist and egalitarian political offer, but what they really did was to take advantage of power to enrich themselves and impoverish the citizen. All unprecedented horror. It is difficult to make a political analysis based on the form of governing of these delinquents. Greetings.
No, the result of policies cannot determine the nature of said policies because otherwise, people could say "it is socialism but only if it is successful" which would be very absurd right?.
In fact, it is the policies regarding economic freedom that allow prosperity to thrive throughout the world, this is why every prosperous country has economic freedom (capitalism).
These misconceptions about socialism wouldn't exist if people took the time to research the meaning of that word/ideology.
Venezuela is full of socialist policies that caused the economic collapse, besides, the government's corruption is enabled thanks to the control they have over the economy, a control that wouldn't be possible without socialists policies regarding the central planning of the economy.
Yes, this always happens when socialism takes control.
Unprecedented only in Venezuela, there have been other socialists disasters throughout history, like for example the USSR, East Germany, Cuba, North Korea, among many others. The video in @d4rkflow's comment talks a little bit about previous socialists failures.