Venezuela is fucking shit, stop defending them

At this point they're better off getting couped. Chavez was a fucking hack and Maduro is aswell.

They're just a dysfunctional petro-populist social democracy, and not even the good kind. Norway used their oil dosh to create a proper social democracy, good public transport, healthcare and education, these are investments that last a long time and Norway could still provide a huge living standard without it. Like 80% of Venezuela's export money comes from oil, and they just use it to import commodities from producing countries instead of expanding their own production capabilities.

Not only are they not socialists, they even fucking suck at capitalism.

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Oh, and memezuela is constantly used by Holla Forums to discredit us, should've mentioned that aswell.

I honestly wonder if there are really leftists who claimed that Venezuela was socialist

I don't get how anyone can support them, not even the "M-MUH ANTI-IMPERIALISM" fags. If you're a tankie, they never implemented ML politics or central planning, if you're a market socialist, they never implemented any level of workers self management, and if you're a social democrat, they failed to even achieve a basic functional social democracy.

"Since 1999, the Chavez government returned more than one million hectares of land to Aboriginal people. Land reform enabled tens of thousands of farmers to own their land. In total, Venezuela distributed more than 3 million hectares. Child malnutrition was reduced by 40% since 1999. Five million children now receive free meals through the School Feeding Programme. Up from 250,000 in 1999. The overall malnutrition rate fell from 21% in 1998, to less than 3% in 2012. Venezuela is the most advanced country in Latin America and the Caribbean in the eradication of hunger according to the the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Access to safe drinking water has increased to 95% of the population, from 82% back in 1999. the newly National Public System created by Chavez, ensured free access to health care for all Venezuelans. Through the system, 7873 new medical centers were created in Venezuela. The number of doctors increased from 20 per 100,000 population in 1999, to 80 per 100,000 in 2010; an increase of 400%. The infant mortality rate fell from 19.1 per thousand in 1999, to 10 per thousand in 2012, a reduction of 49%. Thanks to Operation Miracle, launched in 2004, 1.5 million Venezuelans who were victims of cataracts or other eye diseases, regained their sight. The minimum wage increased from 100 bolivars/month ($16) in 1998, to 2,047.52 bolivars ($330) in 2012; an increase of over 2,000 %. This is the highest minimum wage in Latin America. Women without income and disabled people receive a pension equivalent to 80% of the minimum wage. Working hours were reduced to 6 hours a day and 36 hours per week, without loss of pay. Before 1999, only 387,000 elderly people received a pension. Now the figure is 2.1 million. From 1999 to 2011, the poverty rate decreased from 42.8% to 26.5% and the rate of extreme poverty fell from 16.6% in 1999 to 7% in 2011. In the rankings of the Human Development Index (HDI) of the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP), Venezuela jumped from (0.656) in 2000 to (0.735) in 2011, and entered into the category Nations with 'High Human Development Index'. According to the United Nations Development Programme, Venezuela holds the lowest recorded GINI coefficient in Latin America, that is, Venezuela is the country in the region with the least inequality. Public debt fell from 45% of GDP in 1998 to 20% in 2011. Venezuela withdrew from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, after early repayment of all its debts. The number of children attending school increased from 6 million in 1998 to 13 million in 2011, and the enrollment rate increased to 93.2%. The rate of secondary school enrollment rose from 53.6% in 2000 to 73.3% in 2011. The number of tertiary students increased from 895,000 in 2000, to 2.3 million in 2011, assisted by the creation of new universities. For the first time in its history, Venezuela has its own satellites (Bolivar and Miranda) and is now sovereign in the field of space technology. The entire country has internet and telecommunications coverage."

Anarchism, not even once.

Not even tankies are this dumb, fam. Weak.

You might call me a dumb anarkiddy but I atleast use the proper marxist definition of socialism. Or do you believe socialism is when the government does things?

At this rate, I expect a counter-counter meme soon.

Where did I call Venezuela a Socialist State?

It's obviously not, but supporting a bourgeois coup against a Bolivarian government is still so laughable that you'd have to be either cointelpro or a moron.

The 'Opposition' is gunning down left-wing activists in the streets (telesurtv.net/english/news/Socialist-Venezuela-Student-Leader-Killed-After-Backing-Maduro-20170506-0022.html), but so long as they don't actually hold state power, anarchists are seemingly fine with it. That's why I can never trust anarchists.