Salvador Allende, born on this day in 1908, was a Chilean physician and politician who became the first Marxist leader to be elected president in a Latin American liberal democracy. He was ousted by CIA-assisted fascists in 1973.
Allende, whose political career spanned nearly four decades, achieved the presidency as the candidate of the Popular Unity coalition, serving from 1970 to 1973.
As president, Allende sought to nationalize major industries, expand education and improve the living standards of the working class. His administration gave educational grants to indigenous children, implemented literacy programs in impoverished areas, and established a minimum wage for workers of all ages.
On September 11th, 1973, the military ousted Allende in a coup d'état assisted by Henry Kissinger and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
As troops surrounded La Moneda Palace, Allende gave his final speech to the public, vowing not to resign. Later that day, Allende died of a gunshot wound, concluded to be a suicide by an investigation conducted by a Chilean court with the assistance of international experts in 2011.
"Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seed which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever. They have strength and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested neither by crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history."
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Salvador Allende, September 11th, 1973
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I’d love to see it talked about more around here. There are few groups so well positioned to deconstruct the capitalist idea of family and the rates of abuse are insane
Yeah there are some books I want to read before making an effort post but I definitely think the site would benefit from the info because unless you're one of us, you probably haven't heard of the issues we face :/
I’ll be happy to read it once it’s ready. I haven’t actually engaged much with people in support groups or communities, so I have a lot of thoughts, but not a lot of coherence. I have infodumped to people before about attachment therapy though because holy shit
God i feel you on the thoughts without coherence cuz its like I know x goes with y but can I explain it? Would someone who doesn't have the same experience as me understand my logic? Probably not which isn't their fault
Very interested in your thoughts on attachment therapy though! Feel free to infodump on me via dm or just as a reply to this :crush:
This definitely took me a while to figure out and work through. Lots of resentment that teenagers saying “you just don’t understand” get portrayed as crazy or out of touch, but people legitimately did not understand so much of why I was doing things I was doing and no amount of explaining seemed to fix that.
I don’t wanna do a full dump, but basically my parents adopted a kid with RAD and I got to see their idealism about foster care absolutely crumble over a period of ~10 years. We were his first and only placement. I don’t wanna talk about him too much specifically. Let’s just say it’s a lot of very strong mixed emotions.
But it’s weird seeing how people react to stories of the Evergreen model (I’m not sure how well-known the terms are, but attachment theory and attachment-based therapy are supposedly more legitimate, while attachment therapy is the name of the pseudo-Freudian bullshit that keeps killing foster kids). They react with appropriate horror, but not always at the same details I do. Like, my brother would spend a month slowly making a hole in his wall so that he could sneak into the pantry without anyone seeing him or hearing him and then he would gorge himself until he was really sick. How many times are you going to have to take your kid to the ER because of that before you start putting a lock on the cupboards?
I guess my point is that having control over a child’s care isn’t inherently bad and there are situations where exerting extra control for a kid’s own good is going to be necessary. And there are situations where having an emotional meltdown can be cathartic. But attachment therapy essentially induces trauma by physically overpowering the child, provoking that emotional meltdown, and then taking advantage of their vulnerability when they submit or start crying. It’s just teaching parents that dominance at all costs and in all forms is the only way to treat attachment disorders. You’re not “fixing” them, you’re making the parts of them that are unpleasant for you impossible to express.
The number of kids undergoing this therapy who are put into “therapeutic” foster homes and asphyxiated is crazy.
Also, attachment-therapy-rebirthing always reminds me of how psychoanalysts used to try and walk children back through the Freudian development stages by simulating psychosexual trauma. It’s just weird symbolic bullshit.