RE: Venezuela
May 17, 2016 at 4:37 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2016 at 4:38 pm by Regina.)
From what I've read (might be horrifically wrong) it looked like he had some good intentions. I can't really argue with a lot of socialist principles, I agree with a lot of them. But everything was just awfully thought out and not implemented properly. Too much corruption and overspending, carelessness.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie