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Maduro is following on the policies and style. Chavez was nationalising oil, industry and agriculture, driving foreign and domestic investment out of the country from the mid-noughties. he set a 50% tax on oil which might sound like a good idea (nation rather than the corporations profit)...

Corbyn on Chavez " ... an inspriation to all of us fighting back against austerity and neo-liberal economics in Europe, showed us there is a different and a better way of doing things. Its called socialism, its called social justice and is something Venezuela have made a big step towards"...

that would be the group describing themselves as "brings together Socialist, Social Democratic, Labour and Democratic Parties", so not exactly hardcore socialism. not going to get into an argument over these well established definitions when we agree on where Venezuala has gone wrong.

our neighbours are social democracies, not socialist. btw i agreed entirely with your previous post, where you extolled the benefits of capitialism and private ownership, put it better than i would have, so i dont see where im talking bollocks.

this is mainly because the socialists held it up as an example to follow. it all well saying nice Uncle Corbyn will only apply some european style social democractic policies, the trouble is he and friends want to go further to the left, to democratic socialism just like Venezuela. and we...

are there others proposing to print £500bn or local equivilent to fund everything? and with that long list of crisis, seem to be confusing social policy with economic policy. or is that just highlighting the heart of the matter, in socialist thinking everything is an economic problem that can...

Corbyn supports them because the followed socialism, nationalise anything, state control of markets and prices, overemploy to remove unemployment, suppression of press and democracy (vote for anyone as long as they are member of the party). it works great for a short period until the...