TheDeadFlagBlues
Junior Chimp
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« on: January 08, 2017, 10:15:59 AM » |
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Of course, there aren't all that many parallels between socialism in Ecuador/Bolivia and socialism in Venezuela. In the case of the latter, the cause of the left was championed by a military man with clear autocratic tendencies who tried to overthrow the government and who had no formal political experience before he was elected. In Ecuador, the left was championed by an academic economist and, in Bolivia, the left was championed by an indigenous organizer of campesinos.
I think the lesson to be learned from Venezuela is that the left should never place its faith in military strongmen. That's not a very interesting lesson and it ought to have been learned decades ago but it's worth re-stating...
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