I don't know what you are going on about. I just don't know why it is more appropriate to compare Venezuela under Chavez with Pinochet's Chile than with any other capitalist countries.
> Gee, I thought we were comparing actually existing freedoms under > actually existing systems, led by actually existing people. I could > care less about Friedman. He's a dead right-wing ideologue whose > brazen dishonesty helped support at least one mass murderer. His > arguments are specious, one-sided, sloppy, and full of holes. To > repeat them on this list with no hint of awareness of their > baselessness deserves rebuke. > > So, instead of comparing Chavez to Pinochet --- where there is no > comparison, evidently --- Chavez, and by extension "socialism", is > accused of something the US government has done in the past, in > glorious spades. They make his supposed crimes seem like child's > play. Read McChesney and for that matter Tocqueville or Zinn if you > don't believe me. > > > Bill >
