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).
Chile: anarchism, the IWW and the workers movement
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Your problem isn't that you're painfully awkward, it's that you're overly self critical, anxious, and care too much about how you're perceived when talking about things. She probably likes you info dumping about things because she likes you and it's nice to see people you like be excited about things
That sort of qualifies as being awkward, because it's unpleasant to watch(I assume) and all. But why the fuck wouldn't I be, it's a lot safer than being judged "cringe", or worse having someone assume you're being an asshole and starting a fight. Defense mechanism, for talking. I do still usually post despite my instincts, like I'm currently considering posting about a short story I like in a new server I joined Idk. it's almost worse when nobody replies at all though
I cannot imagine that people outside of Hexbear like my infodumping, or me talking about anything. I spent literally a year doing everything from casually chatting books I like, to writing massive essay level infodumps in the lib queer book discord, and it was like drawing blood from a stone. I can count on one hand the amount of times I got any sort of response. One time someone said they had enjoyed reading my thing, I was genuinely befuddled.
Plus it's hard to imagine anybody from there liking me after I said "another kkkracker down" at grandpa's funeral, and all!
I mean it's awkward adjacent but it's kind of a chicken and the egg situation (except, heh, the egg came way before the chicken /biologybtfo) in that you feel like you're awkward, and maybe you are, but the fear of being awkward precedes that and affects how you act and maybe makes you come off awkwardly where if you pretended to not care so much and just talk about the things that interest you that come to mind you might both feel and be perceived as less awkward. (And that's even if others perceive you as awkward! since that's just you making assumptions on how you're seen, you can't read minds!)
I'm not trying to be some neurotypical shithead like "oh just pretend you're not awkward, it's easy!" but I do think you're really more socially anxious than you are inherently awkward and the solution is to learn to relax. Again, not saying it's easy, i've had to do the same thing during my 32 years of also having intense social anxiety. (an example in my case of how intense, literally until I was like 19 I was too anxious to like talk to cashiers. I'd give money to my brother or someone and ask them to buy something for me.... stuff like that...)
Not a therapist but it sounds like this would be a good place to start trying to change things. Gotta change up the image you have of yourself. Liberals can't imagine a world without capitalism, that doesn't mean that world can't exist! Don't be a social anxiety liberal! lol
Hope your friend helps you figure out that people like you
P.s. I initially commented thinking you were talking about IRL interactions, honestly I would just try not to worry about online engagement at all. There's so many things at play there, like the size of the forum, how busy people are at the time, how the sorting algorithm exposes your posts to people. And sometimes personal even if I read something I like, I'll try to write a response and it just comes off weird and I delete it and move on. So just because you don't get replies doesn't mean your writing is cringe or whatever, you know?
Yeah it absolutely does, the self awareness is painful. However I'm always always doing my best to pretend not to care, and sometimes actually sincerely not caring - my run of liveblog posts about Famous Bestselling Webnovel Unjust Depths was probably my most unburdened speech on this entire website. Of course, I got my metpahorical shit kicked in for that when I spoke a little too freely about a specific character I did not like, and the outcome was awful, huge damage to my confidence, whatever. Not a one time thing, it's pretty common for people to decide I'm a shit disturber and get super pissed at me. When I'm talkin happily about something cool I like, it doesn't really occur to me that someone could crawl out of the woodwork and declare me the great satan, so I don't have the werewithal to fight these people, why would I.
I can't read minds and that's actually a massive problem, there is nothing worse than talking at length about something I really like in-depth, and being met with crickets. If I did something wrong, what did I do? Did I say anything good or bad? Holy shit how do you delete spoken words? I cannot for the life of me read tone or social cues well so I could very easily be putting my foot in my mouth and not realise until someone screams at me.
I have a huge amount of social anxiety but sadly it's completelty warranted, if I sense that something I'm gonna say might cause problems I will swaddle it in a bunch of "In my opinion..." and "for me" and "it's my view" because I've been tone policed so much I'm just exhausted of it. That's fascinating about cashiers though, I have enough light masking skills that I can seem quasi normal to cashiers or cab drivers. It's when I'm allowed to speak at length that problems arise.
Yeah well Hexbear has been the antidote for that, like I've been trying to engage anybody about Orange Book for about five years to no avail, but when I went off about it in the Trans Mega, the resulting conversation was extremely pleasant. Couple times I've deleted posts because I got literally no response, but the main problem is that my posting is too good: I jump out of the bushes with a corkboard thread chart about some shit you have never once heard of in your life. I have faith in my posting, it's better the less self conscious I am, it's like blogging if blogs were good. Only trouble ever is getting judged and harangued for it, which makes me nervous about ever doing it.
P.s. Can you imagine be jumping out of the literal irl bushes and verbally attacking somebody with random bullshit? There's not enough air in my lungs to do this in person without making it a seminar, even if I could find anyone remotely interested. It's not any worse than IRL for feedback since with my autism there isn't any either way, mostly a keyboard gives me the space to say things without being limited by real-life sentence lengths and shit. I speak in paragraphs, I will never use ten words where one hundred would go. If I get upbears (or like, reacts on discord idk) I at least know people enjoyed whatever I said, which is unironically better than IRL. Internet also triggers my physical fight or flight response much less...