Re:Venezuela Declares Every Friday a Holiday to Save Electri...
by whydoesitmatter on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:53PM
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Socialism is worker's control of the means of production. I don't see democratic councils of workers making these decisions. This is Leninist style "socialism" from above, ie., state capitalism and democratic centralism intermingled. Not socialism.
Here's Noam Chomsky talking about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfdnbMd9BiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsC0q3CO6lM
Many socialists are critical of Leninist style socialism because it's not representative of socialism and it tarnishes the name.