Venezuela is suffering from the social construct of its leadership. The leaders separated people from their original means of production and tried to plug everyone in a social distribution of an oil economy.
It never works out when your economy is so dependent on one means of production, but it was a easy way to get the entire nation dependent on the government.
Many people have left the country, others work in black markets. Some try to survive off the government systems. The government system is based on queues:
https://steemit.com/busy/@cjao20/3-when-i-was-poor-in-capitalism
Did you see my comment on that post?
I absolutely agree that its a leadership problem.
Yes, i was agreeing with you in that part, but also mentioning the economy was based mostly in oil instead of decentralized into different areas of production.
If the population could have kept their own individual means of production, the cascade failure of the government system wouldn't created such a problem.
Yeah, if the crapitalusts didnt have such a lock in their minds they are prime targets of my proposal.
With all that oil they could trade for what they couldnt produce themselves.
But, you know, crapitalism is the world's lord and savior.
As i said before, running an economy on a singular production scheme is a bad idea.
The government banning people in other sectors of production was/is a bad idea.
Communism doesn't save anyone from bad ideas.
If anything it distributes the bad idea equally on everyone.
Where did that come from?
I said they could produce everything they need to live and eat, while trading oil for whatever they couldnt produce themselves.
Like microchips, or outside help building their own factories so they can.
I certainly wouldnt advocate only producing oil.
Nor banning people from production they want to engage in.
As for communism forcing things on people, i thought we were past that, communism, as defined by anarchists, doesnt include force.
I may have read to much into 'all that oil' because that indicates less need for domestic production when centrally planned.