At the beginning of the 20th century, Chilean workers had no social or labor legislation that favored or protected them. It was they themselves, through mutual benefit societies, resistance societies and mancomunales, who organized themselves to protect their associates and promote proletarian solidarity.
The Federación Obrera de Chile (FOCH) began as a grouping of railroad workers with a mutualist orientation linked to the Democratic Party. In the mid-1910s, saltpeter workers began to join and it acquired a national character. Likewise, the Democratic Party lost influence when the revolutionary ideas of the Socialist Workers Party led by Luis Emilio Recabarren, who later became the Communist Party, were imposed on the organization, and the Federation assumed an anti-capitalist and revolutionary attitude that was strongly manifested in the social mobilizations that characterized the 1920s.
However, the enactment of the social laws and the Labor Code, between 1925 and 1931, radically changed the conformation of the labor movement and workers' organizations. From then on, the unions and their federations debated whether to accept the new legislation and submit to its rules, as was the case of workers and employees in the state sector and large companies, or to continue with the classist and revolutionary discourse. The leadership of the workers' movement, which adhered to the latter line, was divided between three large organizations: the FOCH, linked to the Communist Party, the CGT (National Confederation of Workers), of anarchist inspiration, and the CNS (National Confederation of Trade Unions), of socialist origin.
In 1934, the violent repression by Arturo Alessandri's government of a national railroad strike was reacted by the unity of the different workers' organizations. Thus, the Unified Command that emerged from the strike was transformed into a Trade Union Unity Front, which organized a Trade Union Unity Congress in December 1936, giving rise to the Confederation of Chilean Workers (CTCH).
The strength acquired by the new workers' organization allowed them to form part of the political alliance that supported the candidacy of the radical Pedro Aguirre Cerda in the 1938 presidential election. The triumph of the Popular Front gave the CTCH a direct link with the new government, which, although it allowed it to grow as an organization, would later be the cause of its division and loss of prominence.
Indeed, at the end of the 1940s, the workers' movement, which was strongly linked to the Communist Party through the Confederation of Workers of Chile, was strongly repressed and weakened by the government of Gabriel Gonzalez Videla when he enacted the Law for the Defense of Democracy or "Damned Law". Consequently, the leadership of the workers' movement was taken over by employee organizations, especially in the public sector, which through the leadership of Clotario Blest managed to organize a new workers' confederation in 1953: the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT).
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Surely it's a massive bit of cognitive dissonance to be vegan and then kill bugs?
Phobias (from phobos, fear) are an involuntary activation of your fear response, often a very extreme one. You can cognitive your dissonance all you want, your fight/flight response doesn't care and isn't interested in your thoughts on the matter.
It's a mental health disorder, not bad vibes.
They're still living creatures though.
If you want to talk about people hating and killing bugs because they're trained to by their culture, talk about people killing bugs because they're trained to by their culture.
If you want to talk about phobias, a specific class of anxiety disorder that causes victims to suffer extreme and irrational fear and distress when they come across non-threatening stimulus, talk about that.
One is a cultural problem, the other is a mental health condition.
Somehow I don't believe phobias are causing this type of bug-killing, irrational fear usually not compelling you to touch the bug. If they are, does the same apply to snakes? Is it cool to just run around killing snakes because of a phobia?
Go back to the beginning.
This thread started by stating that people suffering from a mental illness are receiving too much consideration and compassion.
Imprecise language begets casual ableism and contributes to the tendency for mentally ill people to be blamed for the behavior of "normal" people. Phobic people aren't driving the "Kill it with Fire!" Memes. They're having panic attacks, fleeing, shutting down completely, when they encounter whatever triggers their phobia. In my case they were near pissing themselves as adults screamed at them for refusing to go in to the garage, the basement, or the closet because they had an irrational fear of venomous spiders.
So now we've got this thread that starts with "mentally ill people are being coddled", instead of "people who hate bugs" or "people who think bugs are icky or "normal people with good mental health who kill bugs thoughtlesslys".
I had really bad, disruptive arachnophobia for most of my childhood and it really had nothing to do with the spiders. Once it was abruptly and very unexpectedly cured I was on pretty good terms with the arachnid kingdom and most other arthropods, provided they don't wreck my stuff or bite me. Arachnophobia is not the problem. Cultural attitudes towards bugs are the problem.
Not trying to be a dick or start a struggle session, just trying to highlight how casual ableism and othering of the mentally ill can creep in even where it probably wasn't intended.
So this is a false premise and conflation then, is the thrust? I actually skimmed the "too much coddling", eesh.
Yeah, i think that's fair.
Okay yeah I agree, I'm no longer with this. It is bad to be ableist toward people with phobias.
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Now we can get back to convincing everyone that arthropods are bros and we should be compassionate towards them as much as possible.