Stupid, greedy people in power did that. You can blame socialism, you can blame popular sovereignty — Hell, you can blame the desperately poor if you like. Ginning up a scapegoat worked for Chavez. Maybe if you really put your back into it you could blame poverty itself, endemic bigotry, and the dire instability of Venezuela's tiny former land-holding plutocracy, but you might have to put on your glasses. Whereas you can make out the rough shape of humanity and curse it as socialism without bothering to even look up. That's cool. I'm not judgy. I have a similar hangup about slavery, genocide, colonialism and capitalism. Only, at heart, I know it's people not their -isms.
Stupid, greedy people in power did that. You can blame socialism, you can blame popular sovereignty — Hell, you can blame the desperately poor if you like. Ginning up a scapegoat worked for Chavez. Maybe if you really put your back into it you could blame poverty itself, endemic bigotry, and the dire instability of Venezuela's tiny former land-holding plutocracy, but you might have to put on your glasses. Whereas you can make out the rough shape of humanity and curse it as socialism without bothering to even look up. That's cool. I'm not judgy. I have a similar hangup about slavery, genocide, colonialism and capitalism. Only, at heart, I know it's people not their -isms.
Ok, so your point is, socialism doesn’t kill people just like guns don’t kill people. Evil, greedy people kill people using socialism.
Sound good. Doesn’t solve any problem though.