I mean Im still hopeful, A year ago Jadue was justa random mayor (His city is bigger than Buttigieg even tho Chile is 20 times smaller than the US lol) and now he is the front runner. The backlash agaisnt the right wing since the protest is real and will hurt any of his main rivals. The only major problem is the is a ton of people that wont vote for him just because he is a communist. The election is in a year and a lot can change, hopefully for the better :)
erosandmagic and bamboo68 dissect it in a thread in this post better that I could explain. I can tell you that while you could consider Jadue himself a communist he has made it clear that if the chilean communist party comes to power in Chile it will by as a part of a coalition, not as an independent entity, and currently their coalition has some center and centerright parties so I dont think he would run on an actual communist agenda. It would still be a better agenda by far than any other politician.
Whats the deal with PCdoB? Im not very familiar with them.
i see. i'm cool with that, as long as their end goal is to establish socialism at some point (i can understand reform in the short or even medium term, using the government's tools to increase popularity of the communists, to mobilize people, etc)
PCdoB's history is a bit complicated, but the gist of it is that they're at very best reformists today, unlike PCB, which is an actual communist party (the original one, from the 20s and still going, albeit with a very small amount of members)
Oh so just the perpetual reason we can't have nice things.
I mean Im still hopeful, A year ago Jadue was justa random mayor (His city is bigger than Buttigieg even tho Chile is 20 times smaller than the US lol) and now he is the front runner. The backlash agaisnt the right wing since the protest is real and will hurt any of his main rivals. The only major problem is the is a ton of people that wont vote for him just because he is a communist. The election is in a year and a lot can change, hopefully for the better :)
is he an actual communist or is it just like with PCdoB here in brazil?
erosandmagic and bamboo68 dissect it in a thread in this post better that I could explain. I can tell you that while you could consider Jadue himself a communist he has made it clear that if the chilean communist party comes to power in Chile it will by as a part of a coalition, not as an independent entity, and currently their coalition has some center and centerright parties so I dont think he would run on an actual communist agenda. It would still be a better agenda by far than any other politician.
Whats the deal with PCdoB? Im not very familiar with them.
i see. i'm cool with that, as long as their end goal is to establish socialism at some point (i can understand reform in the short or even medium term, using the government's tools to increase popularity of the communists, to mobilize people, etc)
PCdoB's history is a bit complicated, but the gist of it is that they're at very best reformists today, unlike PCB, which is an actual communist party (the original one, from the 20s and still going, albeit with a very small amount of members)