Posted on 06/30/2018 12:49:13 PM PDT by grundle
The New York Times just published this article, which is titled “The Millennial Socialists Are Coming.” The article talks about the growing popularity of socialism among Millennials, and points out several examples of socialist candidates beating long term Democrats in primary elections.
The New York Times article includes this link to the constitution and bylaws of the Democratic Socialists of America. Here is a brief excerpt from it (the bolding is mine):
“We are socialists because we reject an economic order based on private profit, alienated labor, gross inequalities of wealth and power, discrimination based on race, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, disability status, age, religion, and national origin, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo. We are socialists because we share a vision of a humane social order based on popular control of resources and production, economic planning, equitable distribution, feminism, racial equality and non-oppressive relationships.”
Let’s take a look at what those two bolded parts manage to achieve when they are adopted in the real world. Specifically, let’s take a look at what’s currently going on in Venezuela, which I have previously described in great detail in this lengthy and well sourced blog post, which I have titled, “The Maduro diet: How most Venezuelans lost an average of 19 pounds in 2016, plus another 24 pounds in 2017.”
The Democratic Socialists of America claim that they “reject an economic order based on private profit.” That’s exactly what Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was doing when he started implementing price controls on food in Venezuela in 2003. These price controls caused shortages of food. Anyone who understands Economics 101 knows that price controls cause shortages.
The Democratic Socialists of America claim that they support “popular control of resources and production.” This is exactly what Hugo Chavez did when he had the government seize more than 10 million acres of farmland from private owners. As a result of these land seizures, food production fell substantially.
Before Chavez died, he appointed Nicolas Maduro to be his successor. After Chavez died in 2013, Maduro continued Chavez’s policies.
In 2018, all of Chavez’s food policies are still in effect. The profit motive has been taken away from food production. Ownership of the means of producing food has been collectivized.
Because the Venezuelan government adopted the exact same polices that are supported by Democratic Socialists of America, most Venezuelans lost an average of 19 pounds in 2016, plus another 24 pounds in 2017.
And you don’t have to take my word for this. My blog entry that I mentioned earlier contains a very large number of links to sources which document exactly how this happened.
One thing that’s interesting about the links in my blog entry on Venezuela is that many of my sources are links to articles in the New York Times. And yet the current article form the New York Times on the Democratic Socialists of America makes absolutely no mention of the the kinds of horrible disasters that happen when such policies are adopted in the real world.
And before anyone goes and mentions the Scandanavian countries, I would like to point out that those countries have by no means adopted the polices supported by the Democratic Socialists of America that I quoted and bolded above. They have not abandoned the profit motive, and they have not turned their means of production over to collective ownership.
On the contrary, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark all have thriving private sectors with huge corporations that make massive profits.
MSM is laying low on Venezuela. Place might as well have dropped off the face of the earth for all you hear about it here.
I love how they’re attacking Pelosi and the establishment Democrats and Pelosi is all dismissive of the girl.
Stormy Daniels!
Babies in cages!
It's so transparent, yet the pinkos who run the so-called "news" media still find people to sucker for their distractions.
It’s too bad the snowflakes don’t ask their illegal alien pals why they really came here. They might find out it has nothing to do with cartels, gangs or “abusive husbands”. It’s all about going where the gringos are. Gringos have lots of money and love to give it away.
Trump supports obesity!
They see Venezuela’s destruction as a worthy goal to emulate ...
This needs to be highlighted as this now represents what the Democratic party is about. They own this.
with very low corporate taxes and very high individual taxes.
They were educated in indoctrination camps, come out knowing nothing about life, can't get a job, have no work ethic and want everything handed to them so being a socialist makes sense to them. You do nothing and get everything handed to you free from the government. They weren't taught where the money comes from and that socialism doesn't work and never has.
They expect to be at the top of the food chain
Everything else they want can’t be achieved without eliminating these two things.
Full Blow Socialism has never been achieved without brute force. Partial socialism is not achieved without the threat of force.
As far as popular control of resources and production that is impossible in any economic system. Someone or some group of people has to make decisions. You can’t have a referendum every time you want to buy an asset or change a product line.
Also, if liberals truly believe the U.S. is racist, then why would these liberals want racial and ethnic minorities to immigrate here?
Ha ha! So very true!
That’s an excellent comparison.
Socialists at the turn of the 20th: “We can make this work!”
Socialists during the middle 20th:
Choice 1: “We can’t make this work just yet though.”
Choice 2: “What’s a few thousand mass graves and slave camps compared to making it work?”
Socialist at the end of the 20th: “This wasn’t working.”
Exception, Venezuela: “Wheeeee! We’re a rich nation, so we can make this work!”
Socialists early in the 21st: “This time we can make this work, only with population replacement and political correctness. (Pay no attention to Venezuela behind the curtain)”
from the DSA’s manifesto “alienated labor,” a term from the Marxist-Leninist vocabulary.
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