Ep. 1183 Venezuela Isn't Really Socialist Anyway, Say Embarrassed Socialists
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Ever heard a socialist brush off the experience of Venezuela on the grounds that that country isn't really socialist after all? Here's how to reply.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1183. |
| 0:03.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:28.8 | Hey everybody. Tom Woods here. How do we deal with the objection that you can't really make any |
| 0:34.6 | hay out of Venezuela because it's not really a socialist country. |
| 0:37.8 | Of course, this is coming from the very people who not four or five years ago were saying, |
| 0:42.3 | ah, the terrible right wing, which is all their opponents, apparently, |
| 0:46.4 | can't face up to the fact that we have a successful socialist experiment staring them in the face. |
| 0:51.0 | So it's socialism when it's doing well. |
| 0:53.3 | Then when it turns badly, it's – I don't know what you're talking about. This is not a socialist country in the face. So it's socialism when it's doing well. Then when it turns badly, |
| 0:54.3 | it's, I don't know what you're talking about. This is not a socialist country in the first place. |
| 0:58.2 | So we're going to talk about that with Jose Nino. And we've had him on in the past. We talked about |
| 1:04.0 | the whole disaster in Venezuela. But now we want to focus on a more specific topic, namely, |
| 1:10.7 | to what extent can you, in fact, call |
| 1:13.1 | Venezuela Socialist? We're going to link to an article Jose wrote over at the show notes page, |
| 1:19.2 | tomwoods.com slash 1183. Jose, welcome back. Thank you for having me on again, Tom. |
| 1:24.9 | Better late than never, I'm having you on actually to talk about something that John Oliver said, but obviously the topic is evergreen and doesn't really depend on him. But he is on record as saying, in fact, a great many people of his persuasion have said that people are making too much out of Venezuela because Venezuela is not really a |
| 1:46.9 | classically socialist country anyway. And so they're trying to make a lot of hay out of what is |
| 1:52.4 | not the result of socialism. Whatever we may say about the conditions down there, they are not |
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