I address these specific points in the article. I disagree that the problem with Venezuela and Russia has been not respecting private property. If anything too much respect for private property has been the original problem. In both Russia and Venezuela revolutionary movements formed because a small elite owned and controlled too much property. US success is in part built on NOT respecting private property. A rich elite owned most land in the US too but many were squatters living on it illegally. Major land reforms redistributed this land to the squatters. This kind of redistribution created a more egalitarian society than Russia or Venezuela had and thus prevented revolutionary movements from ever forming. Make living conditions for the broad sector of the people good and they will reject revolutionary ideas.