Venezuelan Fascism
Mike Walker, Col. USMC (retired)
All,
As Venezuela descends into economic failure and political authoritarianism, the young people are taking to the streets. As one youthful demonstrator recently told a reporter, “As long as there is repression, we will keep coming out.”
President Nicolas Maduro, the blow hard holding the reins of power in Caracas, is calling the people joining the student-led movement, “fascists.”
Really?
Let us take a closer look.
The founder of fascism was Benito Mussolini, a life-long socialist and nationalist.
He spent his early adulthood as an activist and leftist author becoming the editor of “Forward,” the official paper of the Italian Socialist Party. When the party split apart after the First World War, Mussolini took the expelled nationalist socialists and formed the National Fascist Party.
He believed in a one-party dictatorship and used the security services and his Black Shirts to intimidate and beat down – even assassinate – any opposition to his rule.
Nicolas Maduro is also a life-long socialist and nationalist. He spent his early life as an activist and radical union leader. As Hugo Chavez rose to power, Maduro was a principal organizer within the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
Maduro believes in a one-party dictatorship and uses the security services and his paramilitary colectivos to intimidate, beat down – even assassinate – any opposition to his rule.
The fascists in Venezuela are not the protesters, they are Nicolas Maduro and the thugs who keep him in power.
Mike
