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Originally Posted by roachboy
so wait, ace: do your posts mean that you side with the economic elite in venezuela and that you support their particular versions of class warfare because you know what they are, how they unfold and what they mean?
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I don't have a dog in this fight, I just find it interesting. The people in Venezuela should decide how they are governed and how income is distributed. If I lived in the country I would side with those who shared what I would consider to be in my best interest. I am not altruistic, or blinded by theoretical principles, especially when it involves where my next meal is going to come from. In theory, however, I think the best economic systems are those where people have an incentive to invest in the future, or capitalism. In theory I side with what you call the "economic elite", although in capitalist systems the poor can easily become rich, this is not true in most other economic systems.
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or is this a simple exercise in a priori playing around, one that is not based on anything like information about venezeula, its class structure, its politics, its history? or are you of the conservative school that thinks the only socio-historical information that matters is that which is coincident with neoliberal ideology?
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I don't know. I don't understand the question.
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it seems to me that what guyy said above is accurate re. powerclown and dk...and it seems to me that you, ace, present a more data-centered version of the same thing.
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I think the difference is in the time horizon and point of view used. My thoughts are based on what will happen over the next few decades based on decisions being made today and I view Venezuela as an entity interacting with the world where decisions made will meet with reactions from other world entities - nations and international corporations