# Venezuela is Coming Apart at the Seams **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 21, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venezuela-is-coming-apart-at-the-seams/543958 "2010-06-21T04:57:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 51
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venezuela-is-coming-apart-at-the-seams/543958/51 "2010-06-22T07:59:36Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Tell me, **Sam** , is a leftist revolution ever justified, and necessary? From the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego, were there ever any nations tyrannized by ruthless oligarchies? If you were citizen of a country ruled by a Samoza, a Trujillo, Uguarte, Batista, that lavished what riches the nation possessed on the privileged few, what would you do? 1. Putting people against the wall and shooting them kills people. 2. Starvation, poor medical care, etc. kills people too. 3. All evil tyrants do #1. 4. Socialist evil tyrants also cause #2. 5. All socialist leaders become evil tyrants. 6. Not all capitalist leaders become evil tyrants. In the great balance, I’d rather a coup by a capitalist than a socialist for whatever country I lived in. [A](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GM_-_Countries_by_Economic_Freedom_Index.png) + [B](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arable_land_percent_world.png) = [C](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mort.svg) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venezuela-is-coming-apart-at-the-seams/543958)._