[pp.int.general] Opposing austerity

[Daniel Riaño]

you must be joking. Chavez is demagogically running his country towards
catastrophe, unless you think that living in a country with a year homicide
rate per 100,000 inhabitants of 67 (USA is 4.8 and Europe is 3.5, <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate>)
is *already* a catastrophe. Not to mention generalised corruption at every
level. It is not that "some opposition candidates have been arbitrarily
barred from running". That fact is that there is not a chance for *any*
opposition to pacefully make into Government.

But not everything they say about bolivarism is this kind of silly nonsense
from "commondreams.org". There is of course a lot we can learn from left
thinkers. For instance, Karl Marx excellent bio of Chavez's idol Simon
Bolivar *for the New American Cyclopaedia*
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1858/01/bolivar.htm

2012/5/17 Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org>

> People should see this article about Chavez (in Venezuela) and Tsipras
> (in Greece).
>
> https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/16
>
> Chavez's administration is not a paragon; it has its bad aspects.
> Some opposition candidates have been arbitrarily barred from running
> (though real opposition candidates do run).  Opposition TV stations
> have been closed, though some of them were inculpated in the coup
> attempt.  There continues to be a lot of corruption in Venezuela,
> though Chavez did not create it.
>
> These criticisms of Chavez do not invalidate the point of the article:
> that his economic policies are a better model than the standard
> right-wing model.
>
> The Pirate Parties -- at least in Europe and other countries under the
> banksters' control -- cannot ignore this issue.
>
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