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Corbyn described Chavez as socialist, not Maduro. Maduro has undone the "socialist" stuff that Chavez had more or less enhanced like free healthcare and free education. Maduro certainly labels himself as socialist but, living in Venezuela, I can't identify any socialist policies going on.

Still lots of support for Maduro from Corbyn and his team.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/fact-check-corbynista-...

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I'm not even trying to get into the "true socialism" debate, but what they are trying to refer to is dictatorial policies, not socialist policies.

I would tend to agree with you. What was state socialism has evolved into totalitarian dictatorship.

In fairness, pretty much every state socialist regime has, fairly quickly, evolved into a totalitarian dictatorship so it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

It's clear that Marx was right in the sense that societies evolve, but wrong in that state socialism evolves to communism: it clearly doesn't. It's why I find intelligent people advocating for socialism to be particularly heinous. What they are, effectively, advocating for is totalitarianism.

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