However silly a Chávez parody may be, real chavismo will match it
Quico says: From El Universal’s analysis of a National Assembly document entitled “Debate about the social relations of production, in Reference to the wholesale reform of the Framework Labor Law”:
In addition to the end of private property, the ideas highlight the need to “displace the market as an organizational mechanism and subsitute it by the life of human beings taken care of via conscious planning for the fulfilment of their needs.” President Hugo Chávez has already noted that strategic goods such as food, must not be treated as commodities, and so the law of supply and demand must not apply in this country.
Next up: repealing the Law of Gravity.
Post 68 of 100. We stalled a bit here, people, but we’re coming back…
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