In a way, he's right........This is the reality of a true democracy.........
I have to disagree.
It's true that pure democracy can lead to socialism--- that's why Aristotle referred to "vulgar democracy" as "rule of the poor".
But that's not what's happening in Venezuela, where the necessary conditions for democracy have been stripped away by Chavez, who, is not a democrat, pure or otherwise. That's why for as long as he could, he fought the legality of the referendum on him before winning it through dubious means.
Contrary to those on FR who continually repeat that the United States is a republic and not a democracy, it's in point of fact both and always has been (as most of them actually know), and with the expansion of the franchise to men regardless of the status of their holdings, blacks, women, has only become more democratic--- which is a good thing, considering the harm the expansion of the power of our least democratic branch, the United States Supreme Court, has done in the last one hundred years alone.
What Chavez is doing is FAR from "true democracy".