Socialism is lauded in United States universities as the answer to economic inequality that will create a workers paradise. Bernie Sanders is also promising to tax the millionaires and the billionaires to make them share their wealth and pay much higher taxes so that poverty will be eliminated. No one can point to an example where socialism has improved an economy or actually worked. Examples where it has failed are abundant and tragic. The usual result of a socialist takeover is the destruction of business, a contraction in the economy, the impoverishment of the majority of the people, and the rise and enrichment of a ruling elite. And yet our university professors cannot seem to see and understand the damage that socialism inevitably brings.
Perhaps if they would look south to Venezuela, they would see a clear example of what typically goes wrong when a political leader takes a country to socialism. Venezuela is awash in oil, and in fact was the first member of OPEC. The country actually has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. That is one factor that led to their downfall. Hugo Chavez, long time president of Venezuela and protege of the Cubans, used oil to pander to the poor with free breakfast, and to line the pockets of he and his cronies. It buffered the damage done when he threw out foreign investors and expropriated their property and factories. It paid for imports when the actual productivity of the country diminished. It paved the way to create a country now completely destitute with the fall in oil prices. But you can be certain that the new socialist president, Nicolas Maduro and his cronies are still living well, even as the rest of the country starves. It is the way with socialism, everyone equal, everyone in poverty except for the chosen few at the top. The academics should get out of the classroom and look at Venezuela, at what they are preaching does to a country like Venezuela.
See some of the shocking effects of socialism in Venezuela, page 2:
The United States is the world’s leading debter. …. our debt will have us crashing soon…
Yeah, go ahead and vote for Bernie you fucking morons ,,,,!!!
Bernie people
The original author of the post is a fucking idion. Venezuela is NOT socialist. Anybody who says they are a) is a fucking idion/moron, b) can’t tell what socialism IS even if it hits them in the face, c) can’t tell the difference between their head and their$#%&!@*(cuz it’s shoved so far up there) and d) doesn’t fucking understand what happens when 96% of the economy is based on one resource/export that subject to market volatility.
It’s NOT FUCKING SOCIALISM.
It’s NOT FUCKING SOCIALISM, YOU STUPID$#%&!@*
From the comments of a cross-linked post:
“Jose Flores first and foremost, Venezuela is a complex situation, way more reasons than “socialism” have this country in the state it is, all systems are a joke and corruptible, all of them, democracy, socialism, communism, all of them, but the real reason Venezuela is fucked is because Venezuela has never played ball with the US government but y’all “anarchist” living in your parents basements already knew that right? and also they are not puppets to central banks, so what happens to countries like that? let’s see, gadaffi, shot and his corpse dragged in the streets, Sadam, hung, all because they wouldn’t make the US petro dollar their masters and central banks, Venezuelas main export is what? oil geniuses, with the super low price on crude it fucked them up big time, and the US fucking with their economy through embargos and other trade blockades, so if you think only socialism is to blame, we’ll your wrong, just watch, a central bank will take over eventually and oil corporations will get their greassy hands on Venezuelas oil reserves, it’s all orchestrated”
Source: https://www.facebook.com/alpha754293/posts/817488659549:67
“Ewen Chan Ernst Ghermann
False. 96% of their economy is based on petroleum exports, so when the price of oil crashes as it has recently, which, you can argue about whether oil prices are REALLY, TRULY, set by the market some other time – but it’s based on the price of oil (however it is determined).
That’s like saying that if only there were no price controls on stuff, then Flint, Michigan would have been fine (especially throughout the 80s). (Where they too, also depended SIGNIFICANTLY on a single employer/industry.)”
F**K. People are fucking stupid. Why is it illegal to fumigate/castrate them all???
VENEZUELA IS NOT SOCIALIST.
From the comments of a cross-linked post:
“Jose Flores first and foremost, Venezuela is a complex situation, way more reasons than “socialism” have this country in the state it is, all systems are a joke and corruptible, all of them, democracy, socialism, communism, all of them, but the real reason Venezuela is fucked is because Venezuela has never played ball with the US government but y’all “anarchist” living in your parents basements already knew that right? and also they are not puppets to central banks, so what happens to countries like that? let’s see, gadaffi, shot and his corpse dragged in the streets, Sadam, hung, all because they wouldn’t make the US petro dollar their masters and central banks, Venezuelas main export is what? oil geniuses, with the super low price on crude it fucked them up big time, and the US fucking with their economy through embargos and other trade blockades, so if you think only socialism is to blame, we’ll your wrong, just watch, a central bank will take over eventually and oil corporations will get their greassy hands on Venezuelas oil reserves, it’s all orchestrated”
“96% of their economy is based on petroleum exports, so when the price of oil crashes as it has recently, which, you can argue about whether oil prices are REALLY, TRULY, set by the market some other time – but it’s based on the price of oil (however it is determined).
That’s like saying that if only there were no price controls on stuff, then Flint, Michigan would have been fine (especially throughout the 80s). (Where they too, also depended SIGNIFICANTLY on a single employer/industry.)”
Y’ALL ARE FUCKING STUPID. GET A FUCKING CLUE.
Embrace the democratic socialism. Not