I can't believe 20 of you can't appreciate a perfectly good burn despite how good or bad of an argument the slime dude was making or whatever.
I can't believe 20 of you can't appreciate a perfectly good burn despite how good or bad of an argument the slime dude was making or whatever.
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Wasn't that specifically about the NEP and the label stopped applying once the central planning apparatus had been developed and capital had been collectivized? By that definition China in the early 50s (before collectivization and what loose central planning and logistics they had were implemented) and post-Deng would be state capitalist, but not in between.
Venezuela isn't even state capitalist, it's just a normal capitalist welfare state (except in a periphery country instead of in the imperial core) where large swathes of the economy are still held by the same private oligarchs that owned them before Chavez came to power, and that private oligarchy (in collaboration with the US) has been the root of repeated coup attempts and a sustained program of terrorism, lynchings, and economic warfare aimed at forcing regime change, with footsoldiers drawn from the ranks of the aggrieved petit bourgeoisie and PMC white supremacists.
Like the Chavista movement was and is good, and their programs to expand education, combat racism, expand housing, and proliferate agricultural coops have both made a massive positive difference in the lives of millions of people and helped to partially mitigate the economic warfare and destruction of food and capital by the private oligarchs, but they have been either unable or unwilling to eliminate the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie so far (and there are, obviously, strategic geopolitical reasons for that like trying to avoid the worst violence the US likes to leverage against anyone who does, instead accepting a slow burn of economic warfare and terrorism by the US).
Thanks. That's all that is stated on the picture.