It's possible to have been lukewarm towards Chavez, not so much because you're keen on Marxism, but because you weren't entirely sure about the opposition being

It's possible to have been lukewarm towards Chavez, not so much because you're keen on Marxism, but because you weren't entirely sure about the opposition being genuinely pro-democratic. I don't think you have to be particularly left-wing, let alone Marxist, to look back at history and see that fighting democratic movements because they were labeled as Communist or Marxist may not have been the right approach. You compare Chavez to Trump. What if instead of having an election, Trump's opposition had forcibly removed him when it was clear impeachment was going nowhere? Some people would have made a sincere case for the negative consequences of that even if they opposed Trump. >he rejects on principal the salient effects of private property rights I think this accusation needs more support, surely Boudin constantly does things that imply private property rights.