PaulS1950
Senior Member
As usual, the dupes don't know what it is. Socialism is always democratic, a fairly regulated capitalism with a good safey net. Communism is an extreme form, no capitalism, a controlled government owned economy, so extreme it's never democratic, always put in by violent revolution and kept in by totalitarianism and secret police.
Chavez gave the poor education, running water, health care, and housing- we're past that at least.
franco,
can you offer a few examples of countries that had or have successful socialist governments?
from: Hugo Chávez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 2008, Human Rights Watch released a report reviewing Chávez's human rights record over his first decade in power.[282] The report praises Chávez's 1999 amendments to the constitution which significantly expanded human rights guarantees, as well as mentioning improvements in women's rights and indigenous rights, but noted a "wide range of government policies that have undercut the human rights protections established" by the revised constitution.
Human rights, though important enough to place into his constitutional changes were not important enough to protect. To be fair there is no record of him actually killing any of his people but I wonder what will happen in that country with a new leader although the national police do not report all deaths due to their actions.
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