Questioning leftist logic about Venezuelan socialist revolution

Also the US isn't the only country on the planet.

And also the failure had nothing to do with anyone's embargo. They have been able to export everything they wanted to export, except their output has dropped so low, that their oil production is less than a third of what it was (and all of it is purchased by China), and there are many goods that they used to export, but not have to import.

Still, even the left's reasoning for why THEY think it failed, deserves to be put into context.

A keen mind tends to chap communist asses.I tell them to use Gold Bond with menthol. :)

We famously don’t exchange goods under communism

FREE ENTERPRISE is the very definition of COMMUNISM!

The opposition to free enterprise lies in the private ownership of the means of production and the monopoly the bourgeois have on market forces.

you have something I want to buy, I have money, you sell it to me = free enterprise

it takes a special kind of fool to think of free enterprise as something only a government monopoly over means of production can provide