That’s a weird thing to say, “they” are probably organized, and have participated in actual antifascist action in the last year or so. You think I was dismissing them, I’m dismissing what I perceive as indignation from you.
Pinochet was backed explicitly by western economic interests bent on taking back the mines and other seized properties that the Allende government had paid over full value for. Look up the shock doctrine by Naomi Klein. What did Pinochet do when he got into power? The same thing the Nazis and South Koreans did: kill every communist or suspected communist they could get their hands on. And why? Communists want to abolish private property. Allendes government, democratically elected, had taken control of some industry and was using the proceeds to pay for social services. Just like in Guatemala and Cuba, and countless other examples. This was untenable and had to be put to a stop, by the western capitalist imperialist powers. Its economic and political.
I feel like the only argument between our analysis of Chile is that I’m going to say that the change in government brought about a change in economics that froze in place the power with the country while you’ll say it was a continuation of the previous political and economic system, even if it was in control of a socialist for a while.
That’s exactly what I said in my first comment. I was saying that we may be talking about different things. For a socialist, sure there are national revolutions, but that’s not the struggle. In Wretched of the Earth, Fanon writes about how on Angola, there was a nationalist uprising that supplanted direct French colonial rule, but when the French were kicked out they just spread a bunch of money around to get their people elected or into positions of power to the new nationalist government. They fought to maintain the old system and the people weren’t educated in struggle, and didn’t realize they were giving their victory back to the French, but this time in the form of neo-colonial rule, or economic and political rule.
This is the kind of rule that the USA had on the island of Cuba under Bautista. But in this case there were guerrillas in the rural areas working with the peasants, and advanced socialist and communist parties in the cities working with the workers. Because the people were educated in struggle, they weren’t as easy for compradores to lure the people back into neocolonial economic rule.
That’s a weird thing to say, “they” are probably organized, and have participated in actual antifascist action in the last year or so. You think I was dismissing them, I’m dismissing what I perceive as indignation from you.
Pinochet was backed explicitly by western economic interests bent on taking back the mines and other seized properties that the Allende government had paid over full value for. Look up the shock doctrine by Naomi Klein. What did Pinochet do when he got into power? The same thing the Nazis and South Koreans did: kill every communist or suspected communist they could get their hands on. And why? Communists want to abolish private property. Allendes government, democratically elected, had taken control of some industry and was using the proceeds to pay for social services. Just like in Guatemala and Cuba, and countless other examples. This was untenable and had to be put to a stop, by the western capitalist imperialist powers. Its economic and political.
I feel like the only argument between our analysis of Chile is that I’m going to say that the change in government brought about a change in economics that froze in place the power with the country while you’ll say it was a continuation of the previous political and economic system, even if it was in control of a socialist for a while.
That’s exactly what I said in my first comment. I was saying that we may be talking about different things. For a socialist, sure there are national revolutions, but that’s not the struggle. In Wretched of the Earth, Fanon writes about how on Angola, there was a nationalist uprising that supplanted direct French colonial rule, but when the French were kicked out they just spread a bunch of money around to get their people elected or into positions of power to the new nationalist government. They fought to maintain the old system and the people weren’t educated in struggle, and didn’t realize they were giving their victory back to the French, but this time in the form of neo-colonial rule, or economic and political rule.
This is the kind of rule that the USA had on the island of Cuba under Bautista. But in this case there were guerrillas in the rural areas working with the peasants, and advanced socialist and communist parties in the cities working with the workers. Because the people were educated in struggle, they weren’t as easy for compradores to lure the people back into neocolonial economic rule.