Venezuelan Government Eschews Soviet-Style Socialism
Caracas, Thursday April 24,2014
Venezuelan Government Eschews Soviet-Style Socialism
Venezuela’s Vice President Jorge Arreaza says the country’s leftist government is embarked on a process of decentralization of power to avoid the “mistake” of socialism as practiced in Eastern Europe, where a “parasitic elite” arose
CARACAS – Venezuela’s leftist government is embarked on a process of decentralization of power to avoid the “mistake” of socialism as practiced in Eastern Europe, where a “parasitic elite” arose, Vice President Jorge Arreaza said Monday.
“Each day we are building more popular power, each day there are more communes. There are already 605 communes in Venezuela and we’re going for 3,000,” the son-in-law of late President Hugo Chavez told representatives of 104 communes at an event in Caracas.
The communes, which are political organizations rather than administrative units, date from 2006 and gather together local residents to self-manage their needs on the basis of productive projects using resources and abilities provided by the state.
The 21st-century socialism promoted by Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolution is rooted in the progressive decentralization of power, Arreaza said. “Concentrating power in the state: the mistake of the socialism that arose in Europe in the 20th Century,” the vice president said during the televised event.
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