Vietnam Then, Venezuela Now – Labour’s Red Roots Showing Again


Excellent article in ConservativeHome this week about the marxist midden that Venezuela is fast becoming. http://www.conservativehome.com/leftwatch/2013/11/from-harryph-the-british-lefts-shameful-stance-on-venezuela.html

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  • The author exposes the widespread and deeply engrained support within UK Labour, including a clutch of MPs in the Opposition’s intended ministerial team, for the regime which has reduced Venezuela, a once-proud democracy, to a hell-hole.
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By chance I spoke to a Venezuelan lady at a party in Jakarta a few months ago, who confirmed the horrific situation there, and I really ought to have written something before now. Though RRA has touched on the miseries inflicted by the late (but unlamented, except by far left lackeys) Chavez and his successor, the linked piece above does the job well enough, so just read it, please.

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What I found fascinating were the comments submitted by left-libs who don’t seem to have any problems with white-washing a bloody red regime, but who, rather than refute the truths in the article, instead rabbit on about British Conservatives who either supported or at least didn’t criticise Chile when General Pinochet was in charge.

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They remind me of the local expat cultural marxist who took exception to my castigation of the Communist tyranny in Vietnam and reckoned that Myanmar was much worse.

So how is it today that the news from Chile is all about the seemingly free and fair election there? How come that reformist lady in Yangon is a lot more free these days than a few years ago, even elected to Myanmar’s parliament?

The point is surely that authoritarian states can, but communism won’t, democratise. Chile’s Pinochet actually stood for election and when he lost, he exited. Myanmar’s rulers are still in control, but have gone some way to ameliorate the conditions complained of by Western democracies. That opposition leader is now able to go to and fro about the country, and undertakes international tours, no longer confined to house arrest.

Not so Vietnam, which has indeed scrapped the idiocy of marxist economics, but remains a one-party state, no anti-communist movements or media allowed, nor Venezuela – read the article – and certainly not Cuba, where over fifty years have passed with not a whiff of of the freedoms promised by the lying reds of Castro’s gang when they seized power. 

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  • File photo of Cuba's President Fidel Castro standing with his brother Raul in Havana The Castro Brothers, tormentors of the Cuban people
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  • Apart from some splendid health care facilities, reserved for the red elite and their foreign collaborationists, Cuba is immeasurably worse off than in the pre-communist era. 
  • Yet we still see and hear Labour Party politicians, high and low-level, regurgitating tired tirades on behalf of these despotic cliques and their evil ideology.
  • Much the same as what we heard from their Labour predecessors, in the 1960s and 70s, the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign etc., which did all it could to place the Vietnamese people under the heel of Ho Chi Minh’s iniquitous heirs.

Why?

They are not, these Labour people, not all of them, stupid, ‘useful idiots,’ as Lenin said. They know what goes on.

So why do they consciencelessly spout rubbish in support of communism? 

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