Tucker Carlson and a crazy socialist college professor: the entertainment we don’t deserve, but get anyway.
Carlson has a history of finding unique (to be nice) leftist personalities to debate on his show, and Friday, he found a professor who thinks the U.S. is to blame for socialist Venezuela's corruption.
Princeton University professor Cornel West, who also happens to be an honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America — believes Venezuela and other socialist countries have been “crushed by external nations,” including the U.S.
Carlson brought up the go-to conservative argument against socialism in the 21st Century when he cited Venezuela as a failure of the economic system.
“Has it struck you as interesting that it’s never actually worked anywhere?” Carlson asked. “The question is not, ‘what are our goals?’ Our goals are the same. How do we get there is the question, so what happened in Venezuela? They call that Democratic socialism but they don’t have toilet paper. And it’s less equal than ever.”
“Any time there’s been the attempts of ordinary people to engage in self-determination they can be crushed by external nations,” West responded. “Look at U.S. policies toward Venezuela — have been very, very ugly.”
West went on to argue that socialists have never been able to truly “pull it off,” stating socialism has "only been a movement so far.”
Socialism, West says, is “an attempt to resist the greed at the top, the racism, the sexism, the homophobia, the various ways in which humanity is violated, rather than affirmed.”
Never mind the humanity of the tens of millions who have starved to death due to the economic failures of socialism and redistribution, or the additional millions who were persecuted by Marxist inspired regimes who claimed to stand against the “greed at the top.”