Socialism (aka Communism) has been a miserable failure and an unmitigated disaster wherever it has been tried. Not only has it destroyed thriving economies, cultures, and families, it has been responsible for the deaths of over 100-million innocent people.
Nevertheless, those who are either ignorant of history or who are being purposely dishonest continue to tout Socialism as the cure for all that ills mankind. They promote the “social justice” and “equality” Socialism purportedly advances but neglect to tell you that everywhere it has been tried, the alleged quest for social justice and equality only serves to dramatically increase the level of human suffering.
From Venezuela to France, Socialism Is Failing All Over the World
Two news items, very different from each other, highlight the unquestionable failure of socialism: the cruel repression by Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro and the result of the French elections.
Venezuelan socialism is a self-deprecating expression of extreme socialist ideas, the type of Marxism that, when applied for the first time in Russia just 100 years ago, called itself communism. The French, on the other hand, like most Europeans, showed last Sunday they no longer have faith in the other variant of socialism, the “light” or moderate form that in many countries has been called Social Democracy or Democratic Socialism.
Both ideologies coincide on a fundamental point: their rejection of capitalism and the free market economy that give everyone the right to produce and consume according to their needs.
Some, like communists, want to eliminate it completely, while others want to control it and reduce it to its minimum expression.
Venezuelan socialists have shown that they have the same totalitarian calling as their Soviet and Chinese predecessors as well as their Cuban counterparts. Not only have they sunk a rich oil nation into poverty, they have also shown that their alleged democracy is a farce, for they do not hesitate to brutally repress their people when they protest.
The Venezuelan dictatorship’s constant aggression toward private property has created an economy incapable of sustaining itself or of offering the goods that people need. Scarcity, inflation and unemployment are the direct consequences of this way of governing, and it leads to repression and dictatorship when citizens try to rise against it.
Faced with this totalitarian form of understanding socialism, a different, democratic and less extreme version of it has sprouted in Europe and the United States. For decades, Social Democrats have been the main political party in Europe and have shaped the societies of almost all their countries, while in the United States, the Democratic Party has been promoting and implementing similar policies since the 1930s. But now the political landscape has changed.
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Any resemblance between Lenin in the poster and Mephistopheles is not coincidental.