51% of chileans believe that the 9/11 coup was inevitable and 39% blame Salvador Allende for it
Cadem: el 46% cree que el Golpe de Estado era evitable, y un 51% que no lo era
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I wonder what economic position in society that 39% generally holds. Hard to guess this one.
The framing of this is... interesting. I don't know what the Chilean positions are, but its my understanding that he absolutely brought this on because he took no measures to actually defend the country from this kind of inevitable counter revolution. This also happened in Guatemala. If you don't fight them off like in Cuba or the USSR or DPRK or Viet Nam, then that's what they do, this is what the imperialists want, and Pinochet or Batista are just the guys to carry it out. Fuck go back to the Paris commune.
If, after the February revolution, Kerensky had control of the government and not Lenin, then the soviets would have been crushed in the counter revolution. And it would have been clear why it happened, he would have done everything by the rules of the imperialists, and they would have committed some sort of counter revolutionary slaughter anyway. And the dream of the people would have been strangled to death in the nursery, as has happened so many times.
I get where people are coming from, and the values of Allende's Chile are very much my values. My heart aches when I listen to Victor Jara. But there is a valid criticism of Allende to be made, that he did not defend the revolution and he should have known better. What no historical materialism does to a MF.
I'm open to a critique of this position because I didn't realize it was even controversial, let alone considered "reactionary" so please excuse any ignorance on my part. This is not apologia for 9/11
It really shouldn’t be controversial. Castro warned Allende, and Mao warned Sukarno that imperialists will never forgive them for simply breathing, and ascending to power via their bourgeois methods is a humiliation that warrants death. In Singapore’s situations, the communists were already armed and ready for his approval to start purging the fascists, but he refused and look at the results.
saw the headline and immediately thought "oh 39% think he wasn't nearly militant enough, that's reasonable although I wouldn't really go as far as to blame him"
I mean, they did actively drive everyone who would have the greatest problem with it out of the country
The rest, well... propaganda is a hell of a drug
well it's not like the exploiting class will blame themselves, and the ruling ideology is the default ideology
https://archive.ph/s2skc
Around half of Chileans are ready to forget 9/11, the Chicago school destroying their economy, and helicopter rides:
Surely forgetting it is the best way to prevent history rhyming like poetry.