It’s 25 years this week since Hugo Chávez – an inspiration for leftwingers like Ken Livingstone and Jeremy Corbyn – was elected president of Venezuela. Chávez may not be the person primarily responsible for his country’s descent into dictatorship, anarchy and humanitarian disaster (that would be his hand-picked successor, Nicolás Maduro) but the foundation was laid by his unrestrained populism.

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What Hugo Chávez failed to understand about Karl Marx

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09.12.2023

It’s 25 years this week since Hugo Chávez – an inspiration for leftwingers like Ken Livingstone........

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