This is about akin to what would happen in the US if Walmart pulled all it's inventory overnight in a political response to new laws that restricted their gross profits.

The people in this video seem like urban folk who are used to eating processed food and working in manufacturing or the service industry. These are the parasites when their capitalist welfare is cut. I doubt the farmers are starving. They're most likely at threat from angry hordes of parasites looking for a productive body to latch onto.

There's toilet paper in Venezuela. It's the currency. That's why they give you so much. Good post OP.

Neoliberal drivel at it's most opaque. Socialism requires that the state control the means of production. Sanders isn't anything close to a socialist:

why Sanders is describing himself to the American electorate — of all electorates — as a 'socialist' or 'democratic socialist' isn't clear. His economics are Keynesian or Galbraithian, in common with mainstream parties of the left in the rest of the west — the Labour or Social Democrat parties. Surely 'Social Democrat' would be a more accurate and appealing label for the Sanders campaign to adopt. While Sanders claims to admire particularly the Scandinavian model, he neglects to point out that a characteristic of all social democracies is a low defence budget, reflecting not only a degree of anti-militarism, but also social spending as a priority. Beyond tinkering, though, Sanders has no appetite for significantly cutting the Herculean defence budget or criticising imperial adventures. His urging for the World's most authoritarian country, Saudi Arabia, to assert a stronger military presence in the Middle East is a bizarre position for a social democrat to hold. These odd clusters of attitudes are reflected in our placement of Sanders. Domestically the man is an undoubted progressive — not the least for his courageous attack on corporate campaign funding.

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"...Yet while Mr Sanders has built his campaign on a jeremiad against wealth inequality and corporate greed, he isn’t, properly speaking, a socialist—or even a democratic socialist. The better term encapsulating Mr Sanders’ positions is “social democrat”, a label that jibes with his rather mainstream embrace of “private companies that thrive and grow in America” and belief that “the middle class and the working families who produce the wealth of America deserve a fair deal”. To clarify matters, Mr Sanders flatly disavows the very heart of socialism as defined by Karl Marx: “I don’t believe government should own the means of production”, he says."

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You might also check out this article. http://www.dailypublic.com/articles/03092016/sanders-not-so-far-left-not-so-far-out

I'll be the first to admit I read that years ago. I guess all the horror stories and ISIS are finally taking their toll.

Most of their money comes from tourism. Turns out being literally one of the most horrid places to live for women and foreigners, among other things, isn't enough to stop people from going to stare at the stupid new buildings and shopping malls.

they keep bringing up that this country's problems are the result of socialism.they never bring up the fact that it is run by a dictator, or that most of the country is funded by oil money(see gas prices), let alone the united states cutting the country off from trading with most of the world. the whole thing seems off

Extreme socialism or capitalism dont work. You blend the two all successful countries already do this.

In particular before they got conned into letting refugees in. Countries in nothern europe with a heavy blend of socialism were doing just fine.

You just cannot have socialism and immigration. Also they are correct disarming a population never goes well for the poor or middle class.