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Wrong I have read Marx and understand him better and no they are not socialist at all. Coops are strictly voluntary.About "A coop is not socialist in nature as it is strictly voluntary", it must be nice to be so smart, and yet, never have read the actual writings of Karl Marx. By Marx's definition, they are socialist. Plus, America's most noted Marxist economist, Richard Wolff, who has economics degrees from Harvard, Stanford, and Yale, also says they are socialist organizations.
Frankly, you are clueless! Read Marx, he was advocating bringing democracy to the workplace. As it is now, your boss is the dictator!
they are voluntary and nothing about socialism is voluntary according to Marx which you clearly never read. Which proves you a liar.
Marx demanded dictatorship and despotism to impose the classless, egalitarian, socialist utopia he envisioned.
A marxist economist is by definition a fool with no credibility so you are proven wrong by Marx.Venezuela has already collapsed, and it is definitely time for regime change while there are still Venezuelan citizens who have not yet starved to death. You reached for a straw, and you missed.
About, "Venezuela has already collapsed, and it is definitely time for regime change", if it is time, the problem is America will not let the people of Venezuela decide for themselves. Why, because America wants American corporations to control the oil in that country. The people of Venezuela want public ownership of the oil so that the benefits can go to the country as a whole. America's capitalism finds that abhorrent!
And about, "Venezuelan citizens who have not yet starved to death", if they are starving, you should explain why we are adding to their misery with sanctions against the country. You should explain how the "Christian nation" that America calls itself has decided to kick these people when they are down.
Wrong.
The US has no opposition to the people of Venezuela choosing their own government. It is strictly the current regime which will not allow such democracy which is typical for socialism
If you believe that US foreign policy is interested in the people of Venezuela choosing their own government, you know nothing of what the US has done in the last 50 years and more.
The following list is instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
China 1949 to early 1960s; Albania 1949-53; East Germany 1950s; Iran 1953 *; Guatemala 1954 *; Costa Rica mid-1950s; Syria 1956-7; Egypt 1957; Indonesia 1957-8; British Guiana 1953-64 *; Iraq 1963 *; North Vietnam 1945-73; Cambodia 1955-70 *; Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *; Ecuador 1960-63 *; Congo 1960 *; France 1965; Brazil 1962-64 *; Dominican Republic 1963 *; Cuba 1959 to present; Bolivia 1964 *; Indonesia 1965 *; Ghana 1966 *; Chile 1964-73 *; Greece 1967 *; Costa Rica 1970-71; Bolivia 1971 *; Australia 1973-75 *; Angola 1975, 1980s; Zaire 1975; Portugal 1974-76 *; Jamaica 1976-80 *; Seychelles 1979-81; Chad 1981-82 *; Grenada 1983 *; South Yemen 1982-84; Suriname 1982-84; Fiji 1987 *; Libya 1980s; Nicaragua 1981-90 *; Panama 1989 *; Bulgaria 1990 *; Albania 1991 *' Iraq 1991; Afghanistan 1980s *; Somalia 1993; Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *; Ecuador 2000 *; Afghanistan 2001 *; Venezuela 2002 *; Iraq 2003 *; Haiti 2004 *; Somalia 2007 to present; Honduras 2009 *; Libya 2011 *; Syria 2012; Ukraine 2014 *
Massive fail as you provide no evidence that the US trying to thwart the people of Venezuela from choosing their own government.
The socialist dictatorship of Venezuela is the one preventing it.
your list is largely fiction and irrelevant to the discussion. Stating something happens in the past does not prove it is happening now so provide evidence or shut up and leave.
This is desperation, "your list is largely fiction and irrelevant to the discussion." Yet, not a single example of anything on the long list that is fiction! Plus the US government openly has sanctions against Venezuela, why are we doing that if not to bring down the government.
We are doing it to penalize them for their human rights violations and in fact the burden is on you to prove the list.