People will learn nothing from this
Karl Marx was a not a kind visionary who wanted a better world for everyone. He was an angry man with an agenda. Every attempt at communism / socialism since has at one point or another empowered such people - with dire consequences.
Too blind to see, and they shall so remain.
What about Venezuela’s close partner and coach, Russia?
In today’s America, where a HUGE percentage of the population gets their primary news from The Daily Show, and a celebrities twitter feed, if the networks choose not to cover it because a Democrat might look bad, it simply goes into the memory hole.
“...How can people be so blind?”
Easy. It’s called laziness, avarice, greed, envy, etc. All of the failings that make us who we are.
There’s a lot of stupid people out there.
The sad truth is that with reality staring in the face, libtards are just too damn stupid to recognize it.
It won’t be learned, because socialism is like the tricks of a con-man, with a significant exception: as opposed to a con-man plying his trade, socialists actually believe their own con. (Usually, but not always)
The continued scourge of socialism only works for two reasons: The arrogance of the socialist con-men who believe that “It hasn’t ever been done right before” and the sad fact that: the world will never run out of rubes.
Meaningful Freedom is for the competent doers who want to do things without govt intervention. When society loses the indepent minded doers there is not much hope
Chavez told the poor people that he would take the Rich’s MONEY and GIVE it to THEM!!! Sound FAMILIAR??? This is coming to America.
It is really easy to understand why if you look at these issues. Take for example Rush, and Sean, they have to always invent clever new words to describe socialists/socialism. Rush’s new phrase is “low information voter”, should read socialist, but he is so full of himself and is helping the GOP mislead voters with his clever but stupid terms.
As for Sean I am glad he lost his station in DC, he is still on here but I now can listen to Savage, who at least calls the fasicsts what they are, fascists.
Good analysis of socialism.
And unless you can condense this article to 147 characters or less, the vast majority of the sheeple who need this explanation, will never see it.
The main supporters did not "fall for it". They knew quite well that the system would eventually collapse. They figured that, until it DID collapse, they would enjoy power and wealth beyond what they would have earned in a free market economy.
The main supporters of socialism are the elites (who want power) and the underclass (who want to loot the property of the productive).
How can people be so blind? Because the defenders of socialism always insist it didn’t work because (1) the right people weren’t in charge, but THIS TIME they will be, and (2) not enough money was thrown at the problems that arose.