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Over 4 million Venezuelans have left their country to date, according to data from governments receiving them, making this among the world’s biggest recent displacement crises.
There has been an 8,000 per cent increase in the number of Venezuelans seeking refugee status worldwide since 2014, principally in the Americas.
This is what the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) expresses in the section of its website dedicated to the Venezuelan exodus: "the largest exodus in the recent history of the region".
For the Venezuelan families, this entails the emotional shock of alienation and the dissolution of their lives. Those who escape bear the burden and risks of creating a new life, amidst strange customs and environments. Those who remain hold the fundamental responsibility of surviving.
We know that we will probably never see again most of our relatives and friends. The distances that separate us are immense and many, perhaps most of them, have left with the intention never to return. They will create their lives in other countries, which they will now call “home”.
And all this has been the direct result of an openly totalitarian ideology, which invites people to take all the spaces of society and exercise the absolute control over power, using any means at their disposal (including violence) to achieve an utopia of forced equality.
This is no surprise. The Marxist tradition clearly expresses —without any shame— that the fundamental objective of the Revolution is to impose a dictatorship —the dictatorship "of the proletariat"— at all costs.
Of course, the dictatorship of the working class is simply the dictatorship of the party. And yet, in democratic regimes the spread of these ideologies, whose ultimate (and explicit) aim is to annihilate democracy itself, is still legally permitted.
Imagine the terror and disillusionment of a Venezuelan refugee who abandons everything to escape absolutism, and discovers that the misfortune seems to haunt him throughout the entire Latin America.
It is the unstoppable tsunami of the ignorance and human stupidity, in the form of political movements that advocate for such "proletarian dictatorship"... the same one that destroyed Venezuela, and now spreads throughout the whole American continent.
Apparently, you don't know what you have until you lose it.
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Indeed it is a tragedy unfolding in front of us. I really can understand your wrath concerning socialist or communist systems, however what made the people accept such ideas in the first place? I guess neoliberalism didn' care much about the common man. When A.Humboldt visited your country en 1799 and visited the slave market, he was not only shocked by its view, he also understood the much bigger picture of the capitalist world brought to America by the Europeans.
I really wish that after the time of chaos your country will build a society which serves all people.
Thanks for your good desires, my dear friend.
Well I think there are many factors in our acceptance of such ideas, and as I said, ignorance is a big big one. I can see that clearly in my country, because here the same illness is greatly developed:
Perhaps the best example is the problem of the actual economic crisis: The government holds an intense propaganda everyday, at each hour, through all channels, saying that this problem is because of a economic war. So, everything that happens here is for the mythical everlasting capitalist devil that hates the poor and won't allow the "natural equality".
But, in fact, this crisis has been caused by the State itself, that decided to control every little aspect of economy, taking away step by step all our freedoms, and nullifying all the incentives that any person could have to keep working, sustaining the enterprises that produced the goods we need.
In consequence, most of the important fabrics and corporations fell, most of the entrepreneurs took their stuffs and went away, and now we don't have the goods, the food, all the things we need to live humanly.
In spite of that, every leftist keeps claiming the same eternal propaganda, the same story that drove us to this point. It's ignorance, it's pride...
I was part of them. I was deeply ignorant about the real dynamics of the world... and they wanted to keep me ignorant. Fortunately I always have the courage to question my own beliefs, to clean my thoughts from time to time.
They won't question themselves the same way, because socialism is their religion. You cannot allow doubts for your religion... not outwardly, but most important, you cannot allow doubts in your own heart. That's how fanaticism works.
I know exactly what you are talking about. 30 years ago "we"celebrated the last birthday of the former GDR, actually, it was a funeral. The good comrades lived in an ideological bubble, unpenetrable by reality. But it doesn't mean that every aspect of their ideology was wrong, as the great social-democrats R.Luxemburg and K. Liebknecht were right to fight capitalism in its most terrible forms. And believe me, when Western Germany swallowed the Eastern part, it was not a proof for the victory of the capitalist ideology. But that is already another story.
Your state will collapse as other before did. Hopfully, something better will evolve.
Hopefully. If not, our first duty will still be to stay strong, to resist. As a Venezuelan poet once said: I want to die standing, as trees die.
Congratulations, your post has been upvoted by @dsc-r2cornell, which is the curating account for @R2cornell's Discord Community.
Infinitely grateful for you friends. Thanks again, @blessed-girl.
The statistics do not lie, besides those who live here we have our relatives outside because unfortunately they have had to go to look for better condition ... and there are still international spokesmen who doubt that this government is a dictatorship, or that this government has destroyed country ... if we see that many people leave every day, and that the borders are full of people who want to leave Venezuela, the most logical thing to think is that something bad is happening here!
and the government to cover the reality, puts all the obstacles to leave the country, I have almost 2 years trying to get the passport of my little girl, and they have not yet approved. Whenever I go to SAIME they tell me that I should wait ... and yesterday, to top it off, they increase the rate to get the passport and the extension .... All this so that not many people leave the country.
Oh yes, I knew about that in the news, almost 200 dollars to deliver the passport in a country where people earn approximately 10 dollars every month. Some of us hold many jobs, and get a bit more than that: 30 dollars, 50 dollars... but still the difference is big.
We suffer terrible conditions here, but the leftists keep holding their fanatics views about reality, because their ideology is more important for them than reality itself.
We must be strong, dear @blessed-girl. It's our first existential duty to bear these hard situations.
Well, where is the solidarity as they always chant "Hoch die internationale Solidarität" but when it comes to Venezuela all those social democrats aren't saying a word. So I upvote this post in solidarity to you only. I still support worker's rights and basic income and I think that this is socialism and not a "junta" which thinks people can get paid and make a living with toilet paper instead of money. I even know people who bought coffee from the zapatistas because they think that they support human rights and a better living for people there in Mexico.
Oh yes, their solidarity is not with humanity or with the poor suffering people... their solidarity is with their political party. That's why they keep supporting these gangsters at the Venezuelan government.
Yes, I understand your view. Some years ago I also was a strong supporter of the left side.
Not everything is bad among those groups. Some of them have good intentions. But their core belief is very dangerous. Their core belief is the absolute control over society... their forced equality.
As Camilla Vallejo (a communist deputy in Chile) said in recent days, about the plans of the leftists in Chile "I prefer everybody to be poor, as long as they're equal..."
Okay, control and freedom are a contradiction because to guarantee freedom you have to control which ... So in order to be a socialist it is not necessary to govern a country. Again I wrote about party loyalty (Linientreue) in my article "Ist die Venus links von der Mitte ..." (is the planet Venus left from the middle ...) . People are facing hard facts and that can't be solved with fiction.
Yes, that's right. That's a big contradiction that keeps beating our lives everywhere. They don't care about freedom. They just care about control.
Mil gracias
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