Socialist re-education
 We have this too, but we call them public schools.
April 18 (Bloomberg) — Venezuela’s government will require workers to spend four hours a week in “socialist formation” classes, and is mandating employers form “Bolivarian Work Councils” to run courses on the job, El Universal reported, citing Labor and Social Security Minister Jose Ramon Rivero.
Yup. All Venezuelans are to be “re-educated” according to the socialist perspective. This is what the left sees as balance and free speech. It is the epitome of free speech. Forced “re-education” by dictator’s decree?
The classes will first be held only in public sector jobs, beginning with a pilot program at the nation’s Labor Ministry, and will later spread to private businesses, after President Hugo Chavez decrees a law outlining re-education guidelines and rules, the newspaper said.
Topics to be addressed in the four-hour classes include Venezuelan history and “basic tools for analyzing reality, the environment, the role of the state and socialist scheme,” to speed the transition from capitalism to socialism, Rivero said, according to the newspaper.
Chavez has asked that socialist education, the so-called “Third Motor” of his Bolivarian revolution, be carried out beyond schools, in factories, workshops, offices and fields, the newspaper reported. ~bloomberg.com
Incessant propaganda is the keystone of socialist revolutions. Mere argument and pursuasion is not enough to sustain the illogical goals and programs of socialism. Inherently disconnected with reality socialists must brainwash their followers in order to sustain the kind of fanatical committment needed to continue in power.