Hugo Chavez Continues March To Communism

J.J. Jackson* | April 8, 2006

Too many people think that when the Soviet Union fell, Communism died. On the contrary, communism and would-be communists are alive and well here in America and around the world. Hugo Chavez, is the latest to fashion himself as the man who thinks he can make it work. Like all good leftists, they can never ever admit that their ideology fails. They instead rationalize that it simply wasn’t done right and they are the one’s that know how to do it.

VENEZUELA?S populist president Hugo Chavez loves nothing more than to rank himself alongside South America?s historical revolutionaries.

Last week, we were back in the 1970s. Chavez seized two oil fields from France?s Total and Italy?s Eni, the first time Venezuela, even under Chavez, has gone to such extremes since it renationalised its oil industry in 1976.

The national oil company, PdVSA, last weekend sent officials to the two fields, which produce a total of 85,000 barrels of oil a day (bpd), and took control.

More striking even than the seizures, though, has been the international oil companies? spinelessness. Of the 22 oil companies whose deals Chavez announced he was rewriting in April 2005, only four ? Exxon Mobil, Statoil, Total and Eni ? have stood firm. thebusinessonline.com

As long as their are ignorant useful idiots in the world, there will be Communists.

The Communist Manifesto

(Book)

Authors:Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Martin Malia
Manufacturer:Signet Classics
Released:01 October, 1998

Useful Idiots - How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America

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Authors:Mona Charen
Released:February, 2004

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