• novibe@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    99.9% good, except Venezuela never had a socialist revolution at all. It’s not socialist now and it never was. Some slight social democrat policies doesn’t make a country socialist. Socialising national resources, building housing, giving economic support to the poor etc. that’s not socialism.

    And Hugo Chavez led a coup before becoming president, in the 90s. He came to power democratically.

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      1 year ago

      The Venezuelan government not too long ago said its goal was to develop into a socialist country (which surprised me). Obviously that is only so many words, but that’s better than their absence.

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        1 year ago

        I mean… Chavez said that on his second government. And they didn’t move an inch towards socialism since.

        They have their own version of socialism, “bolivarian socialism”, which is basically welfare state and nationalising strategic resources. And that’s it. Like they even enshrine markets and private property as necessary…