Oy vey don't blame socialism guys! It was free market forces.
>Socialism works we just ran out of money!
No shit retard. God people are fucking stupid.
>>74171283
LOL god damn I hate leftist.
>venezuela's crisis is because of the oil crash
its because they grabbed their entire oil industry and gave it to retards with no idea what they were doing
In what ways is Venzuela socialist?
>Centrally plans the economy around one product.
>That one product loses value.
>Economy goes to shit.
>Fault of "free market"
>>74173402
In literally everything.
>>74171283
>institute price controls
>no medicine available because why would someone produce medicine for below cost
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>And lets just ignore endemic corruption in the state run oil business
>>74171283
here you go
>>74173402
>>74174258
The government is even redistributing toilet paper.
where's Sean Penn and all the other Chavez worshipers now?
>>74175081
sounds more like state socialism to me.
only becuase socialism failed 1 time doest mean it cant work, look at Norway
>>74173402
>another defender of socialism
>>74176208
I have something to say about that.
just 5 minutes ago the American Bernie Sanders left was admiring Venezuela's "economic miracle"
I hope people learn from this
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/hugo_chavezs_economic_miracle/
>>74176318
you psoted picture of someone? probably nazi, thats not an argument
>>74171283
>it was the free market forces, not the socialist system that ignores the free market forces while being dependent on them!
>>74171283
>using Venezuela as an example of how socialized medicine works
>not using any of the dozens of western countries where it's nothing like this
Gee, no wonder /pol/ sucks so hard.
>>74171283
Oil based turbines? The fuck are thoses?
>>74174956
tbf the gulf states are largely built on the backs of quasi-slave labor.
There are better examples you could present for capitalist petro-states
>>74175081
Great article that I read the other day about how the Venezuelan government arrested, then shook down a businessman for providing toilet paper to his workers
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/05/venezuela-is-falling-apart/481755/
>>74176555
clearly the thread has been showing how its an example of socialized everything.
>>74173402
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
>>74176555
Yeah, it only works in countries that can afford enormous tax sinks, and even then it's not an improvement over the free market system.
Venezuela wasn't real socialism. Countries like Sweden is real socialism. Pay no attention to the demographics of the two countries. That's racist.
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>>74176726
jeez, calm down you turds. I simply didn't know.
>>74178735
It had its whole economy centrally planned (planned by government) on just oil.
Oil tanked and now they're fucked.
Other oil dependent states don't hurt as much (Russia for example) because they are diverse enough to not become a failed state when the price of oil tanks.
Oh and Venezuela was a corrupt shithole that really didn't manage their oil wealth properly to begin with... They were only an acceptable state because they had so much oil.
>>74171283
>socialism works oh shit we ran out of money
That's precisely the problem with socialism/communism. Good lord they are dumb.