03-31-2017, 08:57 AM
(03-31-2017, 02:19 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Venezuela is a perfect example of how pure socialism fails and eventually turns into autocratic rule. The Chavezistas like Sean Penn and Jeremy Corbyn like to pretend that capitalism and US "imperialism" are responsible for all the world's ills. The fact is that pure socialism has never worked and will never work. Of course, Maduro blames the imperialist dogs in the US for his countries woes (and GMDabo likely does as well). It must be nice to always have a scapegoat to blame your utter failures on.
That's always the thing about pure systems, they never work in practice, only in theory. Pure capitalism or socialism, great on paper, crap in reality. Pure democracy, great on paper, crap in practice. These things try to account for human behavior but they ultimately fail at doing so. And that human behavior will mess it up every time.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
