cancel2 2022
Canceled
It truly beggars belief that a country with as much oil as Venezuela is on the point of collapse.
The Venezuelan regime’s decision to unleash paramilitary groups on opposition protestors has revealed to the world yet again the moral bankruptcy of socialism. It also shows Jeremy Corbyn’s utter hypocrisy; he parrots on about universal human rights but is not prepared to speak out against the thugs who run Venezuela, a nation of almost 32 million people. We have been here before with socialist ideology but some people never learn. The Russian famine of 1921-22 was a direct result of Lenin’s collectivist policies. It led to around five million deaths. Between 1958 and 1962, Mao Tse-tung’s Great Leap Forward in China – a socialist project to industrialise the country – resulted in 45 million killed. In the late Seventies under Pol Pot, two million perished in Cambodia during attempts to collectivise the countryside. Lenin, Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot, Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and our very own Jeremy Corbyn have one thing in common: an admiration of Karl Marx. They all believe that systemic economic change can only take place through class struggle.
Venezuela is not yet Cambodia, but things are bad enough as it is. Chávez was in power from February 1999 until his death from cancer in March 2013. The country sits on top of the world’s biggest proven oil reserves and 20 years ago was one of the richest nations in Latin America. Chávez had the good fortune of oil prices climbing up to $147 a barrel and was able to lavish £640 billion on the country’s poor, creating a gargantuan dependency culture. He also quintupled the national debt. The country’s GDP collapsed by 19 per cent last year, imports are down 50 per cent, and inflation is running at more than 700 per cent. Chávez forcefully nationalised more than 1,150 companies, including the oil industry, public utilities, and many banks. Their productivity has duly collapsed. Today, nationalisation is a dirty word in Venezuela and the people are clamouring for these industries to be privatised again.
Venezuela is currently gripped by mass demonstrations against the government
With all this, Chávez quickly became the socialist darling of Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Diane Abbott and Ken Livingstone. Livingstone even invited him to Westminster. He gave a speech in which he said he fully identified with Labour’s traditions. He added that there is no Third Way between socialism and capitalism, and the only way forward for humanity is socialism. Chávez embodied the new economic order that Corbyn wanted to see spread to Britain and around the world. Bolivarian Venezuela was supposed to be the New Jerusalem, the great hope for the world’s poor and dispossessed. The Hard Left loved his anti-imperialist rhetoric and they wet themselves with laughter when Chávez referred to George W Bush as the "devil" in a speech at the United Nations in 2006.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...cialist-induced-chaos-yet-remains-corbynista/
The Venezuelan regime’s decision to unleash paramilitary groups on opposition protestors has revealed to the world yet again the moral bankruptcy of socialism. It also shows Jeremy Corbyn’s utter hypocrisy; he parrots on about universal human rights but is not prepared to speak out against the thugs who run Venezuela, a nation of almost 32 million people. We have been here before with socialist ideology but some people never learn. The Russian famine of 1921-22 was a direct result of Lenin’s collectivist policies. It led to around five million deaths. Between 1958 and 1962, Mao Tse-tung’s Great Leap Forward in China – a socialist project to industrialise the country – resulted in 45 million killed. In the late Seventies under Pol Pot, two million perished in Cambodia during attempts to collectivise the countryside. Lenin, Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot, Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and our very own Jeremy Corbyn have one thing in common: an admiration of Karl Marx. They all believe that systemic economic change can only take place through class struggle.
Venezuela is not yet Cambodia, but things are bad enough as it is. Chávez was in power from February 1999 until his death from cancer in March 2013. The country sits on top of the world’s biggest proven oil reserves and 20 years ago was one of the richest nations in Latin America. Chávez had the good fortune of oil prices climbing up to $147 a barrel and was able to lavish £640 billion on the country’s poor, creating a gargantuan dependency culture. He also quintupled the national debt. The country’s GDP collapsed by 19 per cent last year, imports are down 50 per cent, and inflation is running at more than 700 per cent. Chávez forcefully nationalised more than 1,150 companies, including the oil industry, public utilities, and many banks. Their productivity has duly collapsed. Today, nationalisation is a dirty word in Venezuela and the people are clamouring for these industries to be privatised again.
Venezuela is currently gripped by mass demonstrations against the government
With all this, Chávez quickly became the socialist darling of Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Diane Abbott and Ken Livingstone. Livingstone even invited him to Westminster. He gave a speech in which he said he fully identified with Labour’s traditions. He added that there is no Third Way between socialism and capitalism, and the only way forward for humanity is socialism. Chávez embodied the new economic order that Corbyn wanted to see spread to Britain and around the world. Bolivarian Venezuela was supposed to be the New Jerusalem, the great hope for the world’s poor and dispossessed. The Hard Left loved his anti-imperialist rhetoric and they wet themselves with laughter when Chávez referred to George W Bush as the "devil" in a speech at the United Nations in 2006.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...cialist-induced-chaos-yet-remains-corbynista/
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