Excellent your post and the series that you have proposed, @dedicatedguy. It is very clear and very revealing of deceptions. As a Venezuelan, I thank you.
When I was reading your post, I thought there were some things that should be added. But then, when I read your comments to those who wrote, it seemed to me that there was no need (plus the posts that will continue this series are missing).
I would simply like to add that you fall into a deception when you say, for example: "In Venezuela there is no true socialism. The only true socialism is the one that really exists (or existed), and its reality is a set of human defects such as authoritarian and totalitarian power, poverty, lack of freedom, false egalitarianism (priced by poverty and the penury of all), etc. So it was in the USSR, in communist China (today it is a mixture of savage capitalism with communist party ideology), the countries of Eastern Europe, North Korea, Cambodia, Cuba, etc. There is no different reference and there will be no different reference to a supposed libertarian and prosperous socialism. Greetings.