Saturday, March 15, 2008
Venezuelan government buys private chain of meatpacking plants; has sights set on major dairy company
The government has bought a private chain of meatpacking plants and has its sights set on a major dairy company, President Hugo Chavez said Friday, as Venezuela seeks to stem sporadic shortages of food staples. Chavez said the government purchased the meat plants as part of its efforts to improve food distribution while moving toward a socialist state. He did not identify the company or give details, but said it represents a majority of the country's meatpacking and cold-storage transport facilities. 'We've nationalized a great chain,' Chavez said, adding that the government bought it outright without 'trampling' the seller's rights.
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At such high oil price levels Chávez can still afford to 'buy' social peace, by not outright expropriating strategic capitalist concerns. But he shouldn't think that it's not going to get a lot harder in future -- especially when push comes to shove, and the necessity for a general expropriation of all the big national capitalists will certainly be required in order to advance the Revolution and stave off counterrevolution. Assuming that will be what he or the government will want, by then.
ReplyDeleteAnd after all; as he points out himself -- this is the imperialist plan: to disrupt the socialist economy thru engineering artifical shortages of necessities. Which is exactly what is going on right now.
The socialist government of Venezuela cannot nationalize production fast enough, AFAIC. It is time to lose all social-democratic reformist delusions and reuly operate on the basis that capitalism really has become the antithesis of all that is good and human and decent in the world.