The socialist pest

Over 4 million Venezuelans have left their country to date, according to data from governments receiving them, making this among the world’s biggest recent displacement crises.
There has been an 8,000 per cent increase in the number of Venezuelans seeking refugee status worldwide since 2014, principally in the Americas.

This is what the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) expresses in the section of its website dedicated to the Venezuelan exodus: "the largest exodus in the recent history of the region".

For the Venezuelan families, this entails the emotional shock of alienation and the dissolution of their lives. Those who escape bear the burden and risks of creating a new life, amidst strange customs and environments. Those who remain hold the fundamental responsibility of surviving.

We know that we will probably never see again most of our relatives and friends. The distances that separate us are immense and many, perhaps most of them, have left with the intention never to return. They will create their lives in other countries, which they will now call “home”.

And all this has been the direct result of an openly totalitarian ideology, which invites people to take all the spaces of society and exercise the absolute control over power, using any means at their disposal (including violence) to achieve an utopia of forced equality.

This is no surprise. The Marxist tradition clearly expresses —without any shame— that the fundamental objective of the Revolution is to impose a dictatorship —the dictatorship "of the proletariat"— at all costs.

Of course, the dictatorship of the working class is simply the dictatorship of the party. And yet, in democratic regimes the spread of these ideologies, whose ultimate (and explicit) aim is to annihilate democracy itself, is still legally permitted.

Imagine the terror and disillusionment of a Venezuelan refugee who abandons everything to escape absolutism, and discovers that the misfortune seems to haunt him throughout the entire Latin America.

It is the unstoppable tsunami of the ignorance and human stupidity, in the form of political movements that advocate for such "proletarian dictatorship"... the same one that destroyed Venezuela, and now spreads throughout the whole American continent.

Apparently, you don't know what you have until you lose it.