theisthanger556
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Every county is a mixture to one degree or another of capitalism and socialist or statism. What caused the current collapse in Venezuela is NOT capitalism, but Chavez's foray into socialism. There is really no one who disputes that. Except maybe you.
Strawman. I didn't claim that capitalism caused Venezuela's current collapse. I said that the neo-liberal policies in the 80s and 90s were terrible. And neither did Chavez's "socialism" cause the Venezuelan collapse. The neo-liberalism from the 80s and 90s certainly didn't help, but the plummeting oil prices as well as a corruption. In my original post, I simply stated that Venezuela is capitalist, not socialist. I didn't claim that Venezuela's problems are due to capitalism (althrough capitalism made everything worse).