Venezuela: The Death Camps of State Collectivism Not Far Off Now

Quoting today’s Press:

Venezuela’s National Assembly yesterday stripped opposition lawmaker Maria Aranguren of her immunity from prosecution for alleged corruption, clearing the way for the legislature to grant the president special power to enact laws by decree. President Maduro has said he will use the extra authority to intensify actions against opponents and businesses waging economic war trying to destabilise the country …

Sadly, this is socialism, invigorated with envy and the mirage held out by leadership of a free lunch, on a quick trip to the always-destination of collectivism: authoritarian totalitarian tyranny. Under this monstrous ethic, we exist – as opposed to live - only for the lives of others, and the sacrifice of individuals en masse to the common good is a worthy thing.

It’s another statist bloodbath. When you place the common good above the life and civil rights of a single individual, all is lost. The path to every tyranny is always paved with good intentions.

Though this latest development will hardly affect Venezuelans. After Chavez took the free out of free markets, their command economy can no longer coordinate a supply of toilet paper, let alone food, so starvation will likely take out the majority before the show trials begin, and the bullets start flying.

The incredible fact is that with our welfare states and state crony capitalism creating our own disenfranchised underclass ripe for violent revolution, much of the West is on the long route to the same dark place … again.