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The Mission system of a fully public state financed planned economy is about as explicitly socialist as economies come.
So... the party of real communists, many of whom support Maduro... they're not going to be targeted for assassination now that Maduro's gone, right?
Real piece of shit for maintaining power rather than handing it over to the reactionaries.
Why couldn't Maduro be more like a real hero, Allende?
None of that is actually happening? Despite the "supposedly" socialist government, private companies have gained greater power over how the economy is run and, more importantly, over workers. In recent years, Maduro's government has been actively working against workers.
Assassinated by whom? Trump? Maybe, I don't know. They might wipe out all the parties that align themselves with the left, which would be almost all the historical parties such as the PCV and Acción Democrática.
Okay, I admit I expressed myself poorly. What I meant to say was: Chávez did much more for the country than just perpetuate his power, unlike Maduro. Much of what he did, however, was built on sand, which meant that when he died, everything collapsed the moment Maduro took power.
What Maduro and his entourage have been doing is trying to keep a sinking ship afloat.
And i don't want Maduro to be like Allende, but he could at least have been more like Chávez, and then we wouldn't be in this mess.
Misión Barrio Adentro is, what? A figment of the imagination of millions of people?
4.6M homes built by the GMVV aren't real?
You might as well deny the existence of the US Post Office.
Barrio Adentro was idea of Chavez, not Maduro's, Misión Vivienda as well, Chavez couldn't complete them while alive.
The only socialist mission Maduro did was Misión CLAP, and that was and emergency because we where literally starving cuz of Maduro's incompetence dealing with the private sector and its hoarding.
Once again, Chávez would have done better...
And the USPS was an idea of Ben Franklin's it didn't disappear on his death.
Maintaining and administering socialist programs is socialism. You don't need to reinvent the wheel with every new government.
So the programs are the only thing that matters?
Okay, I admit it. The programs exist. With their ups and downs, they work, and I can say with certainty that without CLAP, my family and I would have starved to death in 2016, and without Barrio Adentro, I would have died of COVID in its day. That's one of the things that keeps me on the left despite living in Venezuela: I know the programs, the ideas, work...
But they're not enough.
Material conditions trump ideology, yes.