"What socialist policy failed in Venezuela?" Noam Chomsky asks me rhetorically. "The policies of allowing virtually free rein to capital for enrichment?"
Noam should live there. But he doesn't. Yeah, it was socialism.
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To: Libloather
The Venezuela government siezed control of the means of production, and distribution of various industries. Text book socialism.
2 posted on
03/30/2019 4:18:21 AM PDT by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Libloather
Milton Friedman could be President of Venezuela and it would still be a corrupt, third-world hell hole.
Corruption is endemic to South America.
As much as the Spanish language it bathes everything down there.
3 posted on
03/30/2019 4:20:07 AM PDT by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Libloather
So, am I to understand that the reason socialism failed is because they didn't do it correctly....again?
Has to have the worst track record of implementation because it's never done correctly, somehow and keeps failing - this time because of "corruption". As if a fundamentally flawed system like socialism isn't inherently corrupt.
4 posted on
03/30/2019 4:20:33 AM PDT by
Sirius Lee
(In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
To: Libloather
Corruption is the other side of the socialist coin. You can’t have the one without the other.
To: Libloather
I saw this very same argument on DU a few weeks back. And the funny thing is, they said that while socialism absolutely will work if we'll just try it, somehow it always gets spoiled by kleptocrats - essentially the same argument above.
Nothing wrong with socialism, mind you. It has never failed. It's just that somehow kleptocrats keep messing it up. Think about that.
6 posted on
03/30/2019 4:21:12 AM PDT by
Hardastarboard
(Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the video")
To: Libloather
Seems to me that corruption and socialism are two sides to the same coin.
However, I also believe that corruption and government are two sides to the same coin.
To: Libloather
Unfamiliar with the concept of a syllogism?
1.) Concentration of power facilitates corruption.
2.) Socialism concentrates power.
3.) Therefore, socialism facilitates corruption.
To: Libloather
9 posted on
03/30/2019 4:24:50 AM PDT by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
To: Libloather
They’re one and the same!
10 posted on
03/30/2019 4:25:10 AM PDT by
Artcore
(Trump 2020!)
To: Libloather
So it wasn't socialism, it was just the wrong people in charge... again.
What is it about socialism that the wrong people get in charge every single time? Could it be that governments and economies just don't mix? In which case the problem is socialism.
The only half way good socialism is like in the Scandinavian countries where they saw they were falling behind in the 70s and 80s, sold off their state owned industries and became former socialists without needing a bloody revolution to do it.
11 posted on
03/30/2019 4:25:28 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
To: Libloather
"No serious person makes this argument," says Richard D. Wolff, professor emeritus in economics at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.Nor do True Scotsmen!
14 posted on
03/30/2019 4:27:40 AM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Libloather
Corruption - Socialism
What’s the difference?
15 posted on
03/30/2019 4:27:53 AM PDT by
ImNotLying
(The Constitution is an instrument for the people to restrain the government...Patrick Henry)
To: Libloather
16 posted on
03/30/2019 4:28:06 AM PDT by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: Libloather
The author assumes it’s possible to have socialism without corruption, that the people given total control of the economy won’t use that to enrich themselves.
18 posted on
03/30/2019 4:30:50 AM PDT by
SauronOfMordor
(Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
To: Libloather
“They just didn’t do it right”
To: Libloather
Hahahah lol....This dumb@ss doesn’t realize that corruption is the end game of all socialism...
21 posted on
03/30/2019 4:33:27 AM PDT by
nikos1121
(A day without my cryptogram is like a day without sunshine...)
To: Libloather
Hahahah lol....This dumb@ss doesn’t realize that corruption is the end game of all socialism...
22 posted on
03/30/2019 4:33:48 AM PDT by
nikos1121
(A day without my cryptogram is like a day without sunshine...)
To: Libloather
Chomsky is on my Airport List.
L
23 posted on
03/30/2019 4:34:13 AM PDT by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
To: Libloather
If it wasn’t for a capitalist system, our current corrupt government would have buried this country a long time ago under a socialist model.
To: Libloather
Richard David Wolff is an American Marxian economist, well known for his work on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis.
James Galbraith is a son of the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith.
Stopped reading there...
25 posted on
03/30/2019 4:36:40 AM PDT by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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