Re:Venezuela Forcibly Converts Pensions into Petro
by arielserafini on Monday December 17, 2018 @05:48AM
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I'm not even trying to get into the "true socialism" debate, but what they are trying to refer to is dictatorial policies, not socialist policies.
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Re:Venezuela Forcibly Converts Pensions into Petro
by lucozade on Monday December 17, 2018 @06:08AM
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I would tend to agree with you. What was state socialism has evolved into totalitarian dictatorship.
In fairness, pretty much every state socialist regime has, fairly quickly, evolved into a totalitarian dictatorship so it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
It's clear that Marx was right in the sense that societies evolve, but wrong in that state socialism evolves to communism: it clearly doesn't. It's why I find intelligent people advocating for socialism to be particularly heinous. What they are, effectively, advocating for is totalitarianism.