{"id":26860,"date":"2019-03-23T13:35:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T17:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=26860"},"modified":"2019-03-23T13:35:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T17:35:05","slug":"venezuela-and-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/03\/23\/venezuela-and-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela and Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Real News Network <\/em>has the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/stories\/venezuela-and-socialism-mailbag-with-paul-jay\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela and Socialism \u2013 Mailbag with Paul Jay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style:normal; font-weight:normal;\"><p>\n<strong>PAUL JAY:<\/strong> Not quite. Socialism, the way I see it, and as sort of the classical view, like Marx and Engels, and others, socialism isn\u2019t some theory. Oh, let\u2019s now have socialism. And so somehow either you have a revolution, or you elect somebody, and oh, now we\u2019re gonna have socialism. It\u2019s not how socialism develops. Socialism develops within the womb of capitalism. It happens spontaneously. Because it just makes sense when the economy itself is so socialized. So what does that mean?<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nThe issue here is socialism develops spontaneously. And people become conscious that social solutions just makes sense. And people develop that. Now, the people that own, the ownership class, they don\u2019t like this, because it starts to threaten.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rUVPLq3X-jE\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>This little episode frames the issue in ways that we all ought to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real News Network has the episode Venezuela and Socialism \u2013 Mailbag with Paul Jay. PAUL JAY: Not quite. Socialism, the way I see it, and as sort of the classical view, like Marx and Engels, and others, socialism isn\u2019t some theory. Oh, let\u2019s now have socialism. And so somehow either you have a revolution, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26861,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26860\/revisions\/26861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}