re: #380 FemNaziBitch

“But at this point, it’s not just wealthy Venezuelans who are upset with the government. The fact is, this socialism >(well, “socialism” - maybe more like state capitalism, if you wanna get nerdy about economic systems) hasn’t been all rainbows and glitter.”

I like that: “state capitalism”.

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That is a very important distinction that is lost on most Americans as they go into freakout over imagined Socialism. Chavez’ system is not and never was socialism except in name and that only because it was useful to him to call it that to tweek the nose of the US government.