Introduction
In Venezuela’s current state of affairs, there hasn’t been any significant news for the past few days, apart from the fact that some opposition leaders went to negotiate with the chavistas in Norway with the goal of figuring out a way to remove them from power without having any violent action taking place. However, as some people expected, the government doesn’t have enough incentives to leave power so the talks ended up being a failure.
There were a lot of people very disappointed because going to negotiations with the government means there is the chance for them to get away with their crimes, which is obviously an unthinkable option for the millions of people that have suffered due to their socialist revolution. Everyone wants to see them pay for the destruction they caused and the horrible crimes they have committed against the people. Besides, what previous negotiations were able to do was simply to buy time for the chavitas without actually fixing anything and much less achieving a change of government.
As time goes on, Guaidó’s public support will eventually start to decrease as people get frustrated due to the lack of result in removing the socialists from power. It has been almost 6 months since he became Venezuela’s interim president and despite having a lot of local and international support, the chavistas are still ruling Venezuela, or what is left of it.
The clock is ticking and for the good of all the Venezuelan people, let’s hope a solution is finally reached and Venezuela can once and for all reclaim the freedoms that were lost thanks to socialism.
As some of the readers might remember, for the past few weeks I have been writing articles about Karl Marx’s measures from the communist manifesto and explaining if they were applied in Venezuela, the previous article can be found here and today we are going to continue the discussion with the remaining measures.
Karl Marx measures
The next measure that still hasn’t been discussed is the following one:
- Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture Source: this measure could be divided into 2 parts. The first one saying “equal liability of all to work” wasn’t exactly applied in the country. I mean, no one is actually forced to do any job whatsoever, but there are constant calls from the government to encourage people to “defend” the revolution with any means. Although I don’t think that is what this measure is about.
The second part of the measure says “Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture”, I would say this was indeed applied. It is very common for totalitarian governments to create militant movements full of indoctrinated people and use them as they see fit. There has also been reports about public employees being forced to participate in government events because otherwise, their employment could be at risk. This is a common strategy used by socialists to coerce vulnerable people into supporting them and create their own “industrial armies”.
There are even reports about public employees being ordered to expose any person with a public job that doesn’t support the revolution so they can fire this person and give the job to an individual who does support the revolution. As we can see, the intolerance to other people’s opinions that socialists bring with them is totalitarianism at its best.
The most extreme case happened back in 2002-2003 when there was a massive purge in Venezuela’s well-known oil company PDVSA. In this purge, the government fired more than 2000 employees that were against the revolution. The result of this takeover has been a terrible decline in the productivity of the company, it is reported that this decline of productivity is over 70%, a real tragedy especially because the country’s economy depends on oil. The wisest thing would be to use the oil revenue and diversify it and invest it in other industries, something similar to what Norwegians did with their oil revenue, but in Venezuela, this wealth was stolen by the chavistas.
When it comes to agriculture, as I have already mentioned in previous articles like this one, the food production in Venezuela has been decreasing which is one of the causes of the massive food shortage that the country is currently facing. Even though the chavistas tried to create strong militant groups through the expropriation of several companies and keeping only the employees that supported the revolution, most of these companies ended up in bankruptcy thanks to the government’s mismanagement and looting. There is one successful company that produces a lot of food in the country and it is a private one, the well known “Empresas Polar” that creates a great variety of products and thankfully it has survived the current economic collapse.
One of the “solutions” from the chavistas to the food shortage, is to make people even more dependent on the government and give free food away through a government program called “Clap”. This can also be used as a tool to buy votes from the people and gain their support. Sadly, there are individuals willing to jeopardize their future in exchange for a box full of food.
Conclusion
In this article, I continued with the exploration of Venezuela’s current collapse and expanded the discussion to include a few issues regarding the government control over public employees and the creation of something resembling the concept of industrial “armies”.
Right now it is clear the socialist model is collapsing and it is just a matter of time until a big change happens to start rebuilding a prosperous society.
I would like to ask the Venezuelans readers if they have first hand experience of the chavistas government forcing public employees to somehow express support towards the revolution. It would be good to enrich this discussion with this type of first hand experience.
Thanks for reading!
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