It's outrageous that the taxpayers are expected underwrite the public broadcasting systems that air the overflowing septic tank load of seditious, Marxist crap from this haranguing bitch at Democracy Now!
Posted on 03/19/2008 12:39:21 PM PDT by bs9021
Venezuelans Fight for Liberty
by: Bethany Stotts, March 19, 2008
Despite ongoing evidence of Hugo Chavez’ repression in Venezuela, academics continue to either downplay or embrace Chavez’ anti-capitalist message. Binghamton University Emeritus Professor James Petras compared Chavez to Franklin D. Roosevelt in a 2004 column....
Petras also appeared on Democracy Now!, supporting Chavez’ gradual expansion of powers....
Two leaders within the Venezuelan student movement, Yon Goicoechea and Gustavo Tovar, heartily disagree.
The Venezuelan student movement played a key role in the December 2007 defeat of Chavez’s constitution referendum. Tovar, author of Students for Liberty, credits Goicoechea and Freddy Guevara for saving the country from an amendment that the movement claims would have excluded half of Venezuelan voters. He described the events leading up to the Chavez’ ultimate defeat, saying
“The leaders of the past was just about to say that Chavez won, the leaders of the past. [Yon and Freddy] said, well, you can say whatever you want to say—we are going to the streets. We know that we won and you will have to do what we want to do because we are supported by the truth. We don’t know what supports you. And that day our history changed.”
Tovar and Goicoechea believe that the future of Venezuela will be free of the Chavez’ repression, whom they consider a leader of the past. “Venezuela as a country cannot be defined just by Hugo Chavez. Hugo Chavez is one man of 26 million men that lives and have the pride to be Venezuelan people,” said Goicoechea....
The ultimate goal of the student movement is liberty enshrined around human rights. Tovar defined liberty as “the possibility for a human being to choose and to reach his goals, his dreams” with the only limit being...
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
It's outrageous that the taxpayers are expected underwrite the public broadcasting systems that air the overflowing septic tank load of seditious, Marxist crap from this haranguing bitch at Democracy Now!
Venezuela has been a socialist state for a 100 years.. Every presidente trys to give “the people” some goodies.. if you knew the extent of it you would be disgusted.. Chavez is not something NEW.. he is normal in Venezuela..
When you choose to be free, nothing can stop you. But first you have to choose.
Amy is a Millionaire Marxist. Why are my tax dollars paying for her treason?
You appwar to confuse socialist with paternalistic. You cannot say that the govenment has been nationlizing private enterprises for 100 years, can you?
You appear to confuse paternalistic with socialism.. Communism IS socialism and its all caused by democracy.. Democracy is the disease that spawns socialism as a symptom.. But democracy is the disease.. I know thats a Holy word to socialist.. but it is a social disease.. Yes, Venezuela has nayionalize various parts of the economy for masny decades.. What was not nationalized was parasited as thoughly as a Vampire would do.. SO, and Exxon and Dow Chemical just gave up.. and left.. as well as much less wealthy companys..
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Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx
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