Reading Jacobin articles on Venezuela has been fascinating. They're fairly honest about facts-on-the-ground, which makes for some interesting contortions to avo

Reading Jacobin articles on Venezuela has been fascinating. They're fairly honest about facts-on-the-ground, which makes for some interesting contortions to avoid criticizing socialism. The two leading stances seem to be "it would have been totally fine except for enemy action" and "sure, chronic shortages are a predictable issue with not paying for things, but at least the starvation is distributed equally!"