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I realize that some people would argue that we should use the word 'socialism' instead of 'communism', but that term is just to broad. When we say 'communism' we try refer to the 'all the way socialism' flavour they had, or wanted to have, in the soviet union. The word 'socialism' can also refer to 'social democracy' type of thing we have in large parts of Europe.
Of course I can't speak for Socialistlemur but i'm personally not against communism per se. If a country succeeds in implementing communism without letting its people suffer from poverty, a lack of freedom and human rights abuses, that would be *GREAT*! The thing is - i have never seen it happen. And it doesn't seem to be happening in Venezuela right now.
Whether the NLG are communists or not *is* relevant in this specific context - if they are communist, or socialist, or red, or "very left wing" or whatever you may call it, there's a great chance that they have a bias in favor of the current "socialist" Venezuelan government.
We are not trying to destroy people, democracy, liberal freedoms or the marketplace. We're just pointing out that there's a big chance that the NLG is not the most neutral source when it comes to this particular subject.
I agree with you that there is a thin line between pointing out a bias and "baiting" or "label flinging".
I just think that it is sad that many forum members who get very upset when someone says 'communist', find it OK to call people 'fascists', 'right wing pigs' or 'coup supporters' because of their political opinion. The same people think that the NLG should be trusted regardless of its political orientation, while disregarding anything written by papers like El Universal or El Nacional or blogs like Caracas Chronicles, just because they're "right wing media" that can not be trusted under any circumstance.
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