Hmm
I don't think you're being quite fair to him. While I agree that his post is off the mark, considering the literal socialism which has been afoot, I think I can see why he made the full quote. It's a very complicated topic, and it's understandable imo to try and instinctively resist what can be viewed as reductionary squaking (that others, not you, do in any history thread). Perhaps what he was getting at, or trying to get it, was that it's beyond simplistic to lay all the blame for their problems at the feet of "socialism" considering the litany of struggles they've had through the last several decades. I've read every page of that thread, and many of your top notch threads, and a lot of this kind of thing gets bogged down with weird partisan blame game crap.That's true of discussion around such topics on much of he internet and also irl, in my experience. Socialism is the worst yada yada yada. I can understand somebody less familiar with the material trying to push back against that stuff because it seems instinctively wrong and simplistic as a practice. Not that just "blaming oil" isn't also overly simplistic. After all, corruption, bungling, and terrible policy has screwed many a non-socialist nation as well. Latin America is a horror show of failed states.
