Those who try to excuse the failures of socialism

Heidi Munson:
Once Again Everything but Socialism is to Blame for Socialism's Failures
A late night comedian was serious in extolling the virtues of socialism and blaming the failures on others in Venezuela.
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While Oliver was portraying the dire circumstances in the once wealthy nation, he was extremely quick to point out that socialism is NOT, NOT, NOT to blame. NOT.

As usual, whenever we see the fruit of socialism leftists who are in favor of it, without fail, blame something else. The wrong people were in charge. There was corruption. Mismanagement. (Oliver opted for all three.) But it’s never—not ever—the fault of socialist policies which leaves such misery in its wake. It’s merely a coincidence that every time socialism is implemented, the result is government corruption and wide-scale suffering (and often death) of the population.

Following the Russian revolution, Stalin had the farmers killed (too wealthy, you know). Clearly, he didn’t think through the fact that when you exterminate the those who know how to grow the food, you probably won’t have as much. Predictably, famine followed. Former Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, didn’t murder half the people in the oil company (PDVSA), but he did fire and replace them with political appointees, thus, expropriating the company (that’s definitely not socialistic). And now the nation with the largest oil reserves in the world is going hungry.

Isn’t it interesting that, the more fully socialism is implemented, the more force must be used to maintain those in power following the resulting anger and resistance from the citizenry? The president of Columbia, for example, claims that the new Venezuelan constitution (which, again, won’t be revealed until after the election) will be very similar to a Cuban-style dictatorship. It seems that people crave socialism—until they experience it.

But it’s not socialism when the government expropriates companies, according to Oliver. It’s not socialism when the government takes revenue from said expropriated companies and gives all sorts of “free” stuff to its citizens (until the money runs out). And, for sure, it’s not the fruit of socialism to see widespread economic collapse following the implementation of these not-socialist policies.
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It is not just that those who try to manage socialist economies are not smart.  No one is smart enough to manage an economy as well as the free market does.  Even if you had supercomputers trying to manage supply and demand it would not work.  They would always be wrong.  No one can predict how many eggs and slices of bacon are needed in New York City every day.  It changes from day to day and the market readily absorbs those changes by fluctuating prices to meet it.  When there are too many eggs, the price drops.  When there are too few it rises.  Rationing by price is much more efficient than trying to dictate prices as was done in Venezuela.

Socialist can't repeal the law of supply and demand as much as they might try.  When you multiply the products delivered by capitalism times all commodities and not just eggs and bacon for any country there is no way to do it as efficiently as the markets do it.  Having clowns in charge of the market gives you what is happening in Venezula.

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