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Socialisms Christmas gift to the people: $2.50 Barbie dolls

CARACAS, Venezuela Socialism has embraced Barbie, just in time for Christmas.

Mothers, grandmothers and beaming little girls are grabbing armfuls of the dolls in toy stores across Caracas, taking advantage of the governments order that large chains sell the plastic figurines at fire-sale prices during the holiday shopping season.

No sooner had saleswoman Crystal Casanova begun mounting a display of gleaming pink boxes on a recent weekday than a horde of women descended. Soon, she and her co-workers were letting customers grab the Barbies straight out of the Mattel-stamped cardboard cartons.

Within minutes, the entire stock was gone, with the dolls selling for as little as 250 bolivars $2.50 at the widely used black market conversion rate.

Venezuelas socialist government has long imposed price caps on essential products, from milk to laundry detergent, and threatened merchants who hoard goods or sell them at unfairly high margins with jail time.

Now President Nicolas Maduro is making the Barbie doll, often derided by leftists as a training tool for capitalist consumerism, a highlight of this years Operation Merry Christmas, which he presented as an effort to prevent speculators from ruining the holidays.

Maduros mentor, the late President Hugo Chavez, once denounced the stupidity of Barbie and called for Venezuela to develop its own iconic childrens toys.

Venezuelans have been snapping up the dirt-cheap Barbies.Photo: AP

Feminists, too, criticize the doll for presenting an unhealthy image of the female body, though in Venezuela, a land of beauty queens and abundant plastic surgery, its an image many women strive to meet.

The toy isnt the only product affected by the initiative. Across town from the Barbie bonanza, the government is selling big-ticket products directly to shoppers at a fraction of what they usually cost.

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Book Review | Essays On Catholicism, Liberalism And Socialism – Video


Book Review | Essays On Catholicism, Liberalism And Socialism
BOOK REVIEW OF YOUR FAVORITE BOOK =--- Where to buy this book? ISBN: 9781120828804 Book Review of Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism by John Donoso Cortes If you...

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How the capitalism solve economy problem and 3 advantage of socialism and market economy (IF81A) – Video


How the capitalism solve economy problem and 3 advantage of socialism and market economy (IF81A)

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The Voice of Scottish Socialism (E05) – Video


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This week Beinn Irbhinn discusses some political misconceptions, touches on the ideological differences between socialism and capitalism, and presents a study of poverty in Inverclyde and beyond...

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Kim Jong Il's Work Posted by Swiss Body on Its Website

Pyongyang, November 9 (KCNA) -- A Swiss committee for remembering leader Kim Jong Il to mark the 3rd anniversary of his demise posted an article on its website on Nov. 1 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the publication of his work "Socialism Is a Science".

The article said that Kim Jong Il published his famous work "Socialism Is a Science" on the 1st of November, Juche 83 (1994).

By publishing the work, he dealt a heavy blow to the imperialists trumpeting about the reactionary theory of "the end of socialism" after socialism collapsed in the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, it noted.

It carried the detailed gist of the work and continued:

The work serves as the guidelines and compass to be adhered to by the genuine revolutionaries in the world for the reconstruction of socialism.

The work is enriching the treasure house of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

The progressives are praising this historic work as "the Communist Manifesto for the times" and Kim Jong Il as a prominent thinker and theoretician and the great leader of the world socialist movement.

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