Attempting to implement an economic system that requires its participants to be highly and aggressively individualist would fail almost instantly when applied to a culture that lacks such traits. Each culture has different family structures, social hierarchies, and levels of competition. Some even view competition negatively. Nothing is wrong with this; this is their culture and they have the God-given right to keep it. It is clearly ethnocentric to think that these people are inferior because of their incompatibility to certain economic models. Link
AW: So, how do you see the role of Marxism in the Bolivarian revolution?
ACh: In the same way that we have reclaimed the ideas of Bolivar, Rodriguez and Zamora, I think that we must reclaim the genuine ideas of Marxism, applying them correctly to our society. The scientific method of Marxism is a necessity. We are a movement based on the “principles of the tree of the three roots”: Simon Bolivar, Simon Rodriguez and Ezequiel Zamora. But if you read these principles you will soon understand that they are not at all in contradiction with Marxism, they defend the principles of democracy, equality and humanity. Marxist.com
