Once again I thank you for your series, @dedicatedguy, on this subject, which touches us Venezuelans directly, but which should matter to many others.
As I said in your previous post, I think you treat the subject with a lot of propriety and substantiation.
I said in my previous post that I believe there is no such thing as "authentic socialism" or "true", according to which what exists in Venezuela would be a farce. I don't share that criterion, which is not yours, of course. I believe that what exists in my country is the concretion, in the Venezuelan way (but that doesn't have great differences with other historical cases), of what socialism has been and is: the "really existing socialism".
In all the experiences of socialist countries (whether they have disappeared as such or barely survive), cliques that have enriched themselves and have maintained the ideological discourse that justifies them in power have taken power. In the USSR they received the name nomenklatura, which also existed or exist in China, North Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua, and in Venezuela, with the addition of drug trafficking and other blatant forms of corruption.
I wouldn't pose the problem in terms of socialism or atomic bomb, since both are almost destructive to the root. The first is perhaps more terrible because it is the result of a slow, comprehensive and cynical destructive process.
Thank you for your reflections, @dedicatedguy.
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