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On this date, 50 years ago, we learned what happens when an advanced workers led project reaches power through elections in bourgeois democracy.

We learned how the bourgeoisie takes back control when there is no revolutionary organization ready to fight back.

They will kill us, they will torture us and they will create an economic devastation to make sure we don't try again.

There's no alternative. It's revolution or death, socialism or barbarism.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

He didn't reconciliate. He was overthrown by CIA with the help of anglophone countries. Why people are changing the narrative? He was a true Marxist leninist and applied Marxism in Chile in its national conditions. He will be remembered as a fighter and a great communist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

He literally appointed Pinochet to a position of power in hope that he would stave off right wing attacks. He didn't aggressively go after right wingers because he was part of a larger coalition. Some will say he also didn't arm the masses and work more with the MIR to remake the Chilean state faster in the Leninist sense. It was a damn difficult position to be in. I of course still respect the heck out of Allende.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Small correction, he was indeed a Marxist but he was a member of the more moderate Socialist Party, not the Communist Party.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

he was a Chavez type figure , fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Hey now the CIA most likely doesn’t like what your saying. Be careful or you could have a car accident or heart attack or some other bs excuse for why people die.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

A president they can kill. A military command they can buy off.

But what if buying off the command, and killing the president, didn't do anything, because we made both of these effectively redundant in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/mkB08AKNjQ0

Geopolitical Economy Report has just released a episode with the coup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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