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Exit polling in Venezuela shows opposition beating Maduro by wide margin
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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I am hoping for a peaceful transfer of power and Maduro basically going: ya, I won last time very closely and lost this time. Next time a new socialist government might win. That is how democracy works - just America gets all bent out of shape when the group they like looses and calls it rigged. (And then sends a boat full of paintball-gun armed men to assainate the president)
Of course I am already hearing things about the military stealing voting boxes and fighting in the streets, and Maduro has a history of arresting his critics and authoritarianism.
Neither Capitalism nor Communism are bad - discatoriship, suppressing free expression, and authoritarianism should be the enemy: whether it is from Maduro's socialist thugs, Iran's mortality police, or Trump's "ya won't ever have to vote again if I get back into power" Maga insurrectionists.
Capitalism is pretty bad if it's not tamed with good regulation.
Capitalism, as in, the ones with the money own all the things and make more money with the money they already have, is pretty fucking terrible.
That's what we have now, that's why governments are corrupted and powerless against the financial interests of the few in the face of ecologic disaster. That's why we must constantly justify our right to exist by selling out our lifetime for cheap, so we may afford food and shelter for yet another day; why everything gets commodified and turned to shit. Why people go hungry in the face of plenty, why we have homeless and empty homes, why we are in constant wars of greed.
Capitalism is a failed concept, old and long overcome systems of hierarchy and oppression translated to the modern world. Back then it was emperors and kings, now we have global corporations and billionaires who wield more money and power than most lords of old.
Now after that sermon, capitalism is defined through the capitalist class, the private owners of the land, resources, and means of production who have ceased providing value to the system and economy, and exist only off the gains made by their possessions and investments. This is the systemic flaw (by design): wealth and possessions, and with that also power, accumulate in fewer and fewer hands, even over generations through inheritance.
Now not having this class in the economic system would alleviate most issues with a market based economy, which today we know synonymously as capitalism, and could be achieved in various ways, even without a move towards a planned economy such as communism.
One example I like to cite on these matters is the Freiwirtschaft:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiwirtschaft