Socialism Isn’t the Enemy—Corruption Is, According to Noam Chomsky, James Galbraith, Richard D. Woolf, and Anat Admati – Pacific Standard

It’s Corruption, Not Socialism, That Brought Down Venezuela

These days it seems you can’t talk about socialism without being required to talk also about Venezuela-largely because certain people on the right bring up the failures of Venezuela every time the word “socialism” appears. Right-wing pundits claim incessantly that socialist policies are to blame for the terrible conditions that Venezuelans are now living through.