Give me your honest opinion. Was he a hero or a crook? What were his flaws?

No seriously, if you're such a fucking genius of revolution, why hasn't your party had one yet?

Amazing, now Hugo Chavez is a tankie. What planet are you on?

Let the state owned oil company run amok, put Maduro in charge

He was a army man, and his party was tankie as you can get, so guess what happened? Do even know how bad his agriculture plans were?

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liberal-tier comeback

He was such a "tankie" that he didn't even institute a proletarian state. Do words mean anything to you libshits anymore?

Please explain why anyone should take your theory more seriously than Chavez's when his theory built decades of resistance against the USA while helping millions out of poverty.

Tankie does not mean "when a man claiming 2 be soshmalist duz bad things xDDD". That's absolutely retarded. Venezuela had free elections, huge amounts private property and no economic planning under him. How is that tankie?

Social-democratic populist who spent too much oil money instead of saving it or investing it, thereby laying the groundwork for most of Venezuela's current problems. Oh and the ridiculous price and currency controls didn't help either.

He had chances to diversify the economy but listened to the wrong people in his party(the tankies). He did things in a authoritarian and strongman like fashion, which is sortie tankie like, but I never said he himself was a full blown tankie but influenced by them, I specifically said that he was a army man.

Being good at anti-imperialism does not make someone good at building a economy.
The economy ran on mostly oil, and now look what happened. Seriously, subsidizing agribusiness(getting rid of something that could've help educate people enough to farm properly) and building agriculture in places where they didn't know if enough water would be available or not was a disaster.

This is not the requirement to be a tankie, what is even more ridiculous is that no tankie has ever done that.

No one has said that.

I like Chavez and believe he had a good heart, was great at fighting against imperialism, but overall not good growing a economy.

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are you 12

Tankie also does not mean "not good growing a economy."

Worst member of the Pink tide by far, a tyrant that tried to construct a welfare state based on a petro economy in the 21st century. The PSUV deserves to fall for having everything going for them and failing the way they have. ALBA was a solid idea though and Bolivarian socialism is a pretty decent concept for LA: I will give him that.

If he was a real "tankie" he would have nationalized all the economy and made Venezuela independent from Oil exports.

Venezuela needs to Stalin treatment

What's ALBA?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALBA

Think socialist EU in Latin America.

this

No, but I was tired as shit at the time.

No one is saying that you fucking retard.

I guess you could say he didn't listen to them "enough" though.

you're retarded

saving and investments are capitalist tricks, don't fall for them

IMO, he should have gone full tankie. US was strong enough to wage economic warfare, but burned enough political credibility with the middle east to seriously intervine on Venezuela.
Being an authoritarian soc-dem in a fragmented country is wasting resources on internal fights.

Never was said you fucking imbecile.

was implied, you peanut brain

The economy would be diverse if the policies did not all fail, that was the point.

yep, you're retarded

What's with tankies and ruining agriculture anyways?

Good guy but a bit crazy.

gusano fuck off

And that's why the next YouTube video I'll be making will be called "Communists Are Complete Idiots".