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| Venezuela Imposes Mandatory 4-Hour Weekly Socialism Re-Education |
| 2007-04-19 |
| Venezuela's government will require workers to spend four hours a week in "socialist formation" classes, and is mandating employers form "Bolivarian Work Councils" to run courses on the job, El Universal reported, citing Labor and Social Security Minister Jose Ramon Rivero. The classes will first be held only in public sector jobs, beginning with a pilot program at the nation's Labor Ministry, and will later spread to private businesses, after President Hugo Chavez decrees a law outlining re-education guidelines and rules, the newspaper said. Topics to be addressed in the four-hour classes include Venezuelan history and "basic tools for analyzing reality, the environment, the role of the state and socialist scheme," to speed the transition from capitalism to socialism, Rivero said, according to the newspaper. Chavez has asked that socialist education, the so-called "Third Motor" of his Bolivarian revolution, be carried out beyond schools, in factories, workshops, offices and fields, the newspaper reported. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #14 I sometimes shoot, sometimes shot, sometimes shoot shot. You figure it out. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-04-19 19:36 |
| #13 How about 4 hour "Gun control" Classes, also called "Target shoting And safe handling" |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-04-19 19:35 |
| #12 Maybe we need four hours of capitalist training every week for capitalist societies, too. Then again, maybe not because capitalism makes sense and we don't need support groups. This seems like a precursor to the village meetings some communist societies have to keep the population under control. They meet every morning to discuss anything or anyone unusual they have seen in the last 24 hours. The police act on the input. Very effective means of keeping the population on the straight and narrow red path. They probably give a nickel as a reward to anyone who comes up with something interesting. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-04-19 18:00 |
| #11 'We do the concentrating, they do the camping' |
| Posted by: eLarson 2007-04-19 17:20 |
| #10 Yeah, if anybody hasn't been paying attention up to now, that's the official "line between authoritarianism and totalitarianism" that Hugo just goose-stepped over. Full-on Cultural Revolution claptrap. Wonderful. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2007-04-19 16:06 |
| #9 Measles making a comeback in the land of 21st Century Socialism. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-04-19 15:04 |
| #8 Nah, the recalcitrant ones will have to be sent to special camps where they can concetrate on being good socialists. They could be called, oh, I don't know, maybe concentration camps or something. |
| Posted by: Rambler 2007-04-19 14:58 |
| #7 How long 'til the 're-education camps' start construction, somewhere in the Bolivian jungle? |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-04-19 14:04 |
| #6 "And if you still don't understand, we will yell it at you through a bullhorn!" |
| Posted by: Raj 2007-04-19 13:22 |
| #5 The 4 Hours Hate? Inflation, I guess. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-04-19 13:21 |
| #4 "basic tools for analyzing reality, the environment, the role of the state and socialist scheme," In just four hours? Nice... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-04-19 11:53 |
| #3 Must be importing American primary/secondary school curriculum approved and developed by the NEA. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-04-19 11:45 |
| #2 [Begin heavy sarcasm]Wow! I never saw this coming! Who would have imagined it! [End heavy sarcasm] The stalinization of Venezuela proceeds apace. |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2007-04-19 11:33 |
| #1 There's 1/10th of the nation's productivity flushed down the crapper. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2007-04-19 11:33 |