European leftists can't seem to grasp things that should be plain as the nose on their face: The end state of socialism countries is catastrophe. Like a noose, it may be slow in the drawing, but it is quick and hard at the end.
But no, they still want to search for what minor tweaks would make socialism work. “The Left outside Venezuela can help rebuild the movement,” [British historian Mike Gonzalez] summed up in The Jacobin, “by participating in an honest accounting of what went wrong [in Venezuela].”
Next time we’ll do it right!
Coming soon to a theatre in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego, etc.
Socialism would really be very nice, if it worked. Too bad it doesn’t, but that’s the way it is.
The answer is simple: blame the USA/CIA/XYZ Corporation for quietly destabilizing Venezuela.
Look on any leftist blog - its there, and its the salve they use to ease their cognitive dissonance.
Establish a definition of a personality type that can function in socialism. Slaughter everyone outside of that personality type.
That’s who socialism is, always, eventually made to “work”.
The left wouldn’t know introspection if it ran up and bit them on the ass.
Hopeful process of change...
Yeah, that's the ticket, Hope and Change.
Seriously, we've heard this BS before, and not just from Obama. Those distressed lots of people who thought that communism will FINALLY work are, generation after generation, fools who believe in a pipedream.
It is ALWAYS the same. Lies for the masses; riches for the party leaders.
The party, the ideals, the very talk of hope and change have one purpose.
To give someone power over others.
Send every American professor to Venezuela for a year.
I had two communist professors at college.
One was a true communist. The money he made went to “the revolution”.
The other was a phony. He drove a sports car and screwed the college girls.
They were the epitome of communists.
The first was a true believer.
The second just claimed to be a communist to help himself.
What you are seeing in Venezuela is the natural outcome of putting communists in charge.
They take care of themselves.
Hmm..."People are starving and dying in street riots, Comrades. Perhaps it's time to start thinking about this." Right on top of this, aren't you, guys? No, actually it's time to break out the guillotines. In Europe. And we could use a few in the States too.
I don’t believe that Europe’s leftists are have any introspection, uncomfortable or any other way. To them they don’t see Venezuela or any other socialist state as a failure but the culmination of success. The command and control economy and totalitarian rule over the masses.
“Maduro has turned dictatorial”
Surprise, surprise. It’s though the human race has a herd mind set.
Wake up! History repeats itself! And we are doing it again.
Our MSN and the rats are calling the Nazi’s “right wing” and Trump a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party. HUH!!!!
We are de-evolving. Maybe God will take out some of the moronic rat voters that cross streets with their faces planted in cell phone without even to bother to look up to see if traffic is coming but it’s up to us to wake up the rest. GET ACTIVE!
Leftists are incapable of real introspection.
Period, end of story.
“Now, some on the left are calling for a more clear-eyed assessment in Europe of what is happening in the troubled nation.”
How about a clear eyed assessment of what’s happening to Europe?
“...Asa Cusack, managing editor of the Latin America and Caribbean Center blog at the London School of Economics, wrote in a recent Guardian piece: “For many academics on the left, broadly supportive of chavismo’s aims, this democratic slide has been a cause for much heartache and soul-searching.”
That’s because they are so damned smart, they have to concoct yet another, deeper, yet subtler nuance for the SAME OLD GARBAGE that has not only never worked, but it has led to the slaughter of so many tens of millions in its indomitable efforts to bring utopia to earth. No matter how many times it has failed, it must be re-spewed, reformulated, reimagined, revised, revitalized, with only the slightest of tweaks here and there and of course only the very special people in charge.
Because they are so damn smart they are completely unable to imagine that there is anyone smarter than they are and there is no philosophy better than the one they espouse. Remarkably, this, they have in common with the stupidest people on earth.
But as grandiose and perfect as their philosophy is, it (1) obviously needs tweaking and (2) requires extra extra smart people (like they themselves have decided they are) to guide those tweaks to fruition. Only they can make perfect perfecter. This is the very hallmark of socialism. Only the elites can optimize life, so the non-elites must continuously give their lives over to the elites to optimize. It’s called tyranny. It’s called slavery for the non-elites. This is the only nuance 99% of socialists cannot see. For those who exalted few who *can* see it, it becomes the focal point for them to acquire as much power over others as they can muster. And that is Maduro and all his wonderful predecessors and precedents.
Soon Eurabians will have to ask the local mullah what to like
Uncomfortable introspection by socialists?
Never happens.
They look for revanchists, saboteurs, capitalist tools, and Christians to slaughter as impediments to “True Comminism/Socialism”. Every time.