Limousine Marxists

Don't you just love it when someone like Jane Fonda espouses marxism yet lives the lifestyle of a wealthy capitalist? She and her father made fortunes from acting in movies. She made another fortune from her exercise videos, and she also lived it up as the wife of billionaire Ted Turner.

But Jane did not want to allow the people of Indochina to pursue prosperity. She gave moral support to brutal dictators who denied the people of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos their basic freedoms. Millions were senselessly slaughtered by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia while many Vietnamese died trying to escape communism, bravely going out to sea in tiny, overcrowded boats.

Now we are witnessing the spectacle of another despot in Venezuela who may end up causing as much or even more misery than occurred in Indochina. One of his henchmen, Interior Minister Pedro Carreno, was recently questioned about wearing expensive designer clothes while espousing socialism:

CARACAS (Reuters) - A video of a Gucci- and Louis Vuitton-clad politician attacking capitalism then struggling to explain how his luxurious clothes square with his socialist beliefs has become an instant YouTube hit in Venezuela.

Venezuelan Interior Minister Pedro Carreno was momentarily at a loss for words when a journalist interrupted his speech and asked if it was not contradictory to criticize capitalism while wearing Gucci shoes and a tie made by Parisian luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton.
"I don't, uh ... I ... of course," stammered Carreno on Tuesday before regaining his composure. "It's not contradictory because I would like Venezuela to produce all this so I could buy stuff produced here instead of 95 percent of what we consume being imported."

You can say the same about any member of the left, in any country. They want to live the privileged life of the nomenklatura, while most people are denied their basic rights and have to struggle just to survive.