Originally Posted by
Eric Cartman
You haven't mentioned one expensive socialist policy that caused the countries downfall but you have accidentally hit the nail on the head and gone a decent distance to proving me correct so thank you. You are right, almost everyone around Chavez got insanely wealthy. Is it a defined principle of socialism that the people in power gain extraordinary personal wealth? Clearly not, in the same way that theoretically capitalism isn't supposed to leave parts of society destitute as we see in the USA and UK? Nope of course not. Failed implementation is the issue here. The main problem with socialism is it concentrates absolute power and therefore the human instinct to **** everyone else over for your own personal gain is quite straightforward to achieve.
I know you really want to blame this theory because you have been taught to hate equality and intuitively adore the idea of an extreme meritocracy but it's more complicated than one being bad and another being good. What you are doing is no different to blaming 'capitalism' for our problems.