he's Palestinian btw and was high up in the youth PLO apparently
the US is cursed as the imperial core, our coolest candidate is a soc dem former trot from vermont
He did mount a massive entryism campaign and co-opt the title of a book by Trotsky, Our Revolution.
Corbyn is definitely a trot or trot-adjacent that happens to consort with all the trots and write for trot papers who carefully avoids open rhetoric to remain electorally "viable". Socdem is the furthest left you can currently win anything on within the UK climate, class consciousness and radical attitudes need to go higher before anyone with intention to actually win presses for further left gains.
Because Latin America is much more working class than the US is. This is both a result of early land reforms in the country that gave most resources to a small few when compared to the US which had fairly decent land distribution from the homestead act, alongside the fact that foreign corporations run most of their companies and extract wealth back abroad.
The US is a much more middle class country.
Not trying to call you out or anything but it's wild to me how people always ask stuff like this. I think Chile is actually the country with the biggest Palestinian population in the world outside the Middle East. The world is globalized, has been for a while. You know Mexican-Americans? Korean-Americans? Irish-Americans? It's not such a different story. People migrate to other countries too. For example Mexico instead has a history of Lebanese, Syrian, Korean, Chinese, etc. migrant populations. There's different historical conditions behind all of these groups but it's seriously not such a rarity that individual cases should shock anyone.
There was also just a Korean guy running for president in Bolivia. Peru's most infamous recent presidents have been Polish and Japanese. Latin America's like that.
I think Chile is actually the country with the biggest Palestinian population in the world outside the Middle East.
I did not know that. The only country I knew of with a Palestinian community was Canada.
Anecdotal story. I visited Palestine and had dinner with a family that included adult sisters, probably in their 60s. Both Palestinians, but they spoke to each other in Spanish. That's their first language, because their parents fled in 48 to Columbia. They moved back after growing up at some point. I was pretty confused too, when I heard not Arabic or English, but Spanish.
Palestinians in particular though - Uruguay, Argentina and Chile have always stood in solidarity and welcomed them and used to actively try to recruit intellectuals and potential doctors. They also took in many Syrian refugees
Most countries with non indigenous populations were especially rich at the time people immigrated there re contemporary immigration patterns.
It's not expected to see immigration to a place like Chile which isn't especially well off.
I don't know if this is necessarily the case in Chile but often it's also the countries promoting immigration bc there's shortages in labor or a lot of unoccupied land. It was often ideological or based on weird racialism too, see prerevolutionary Mexico inviting European immigrants to whiten us, or postrevolutionary Mexico bringing people from different parts of the world to mix our genes and create the cosmic race (joke's on them though because these communities turned out endogamic a lot of the time).
it not weird to see immigrant communities in latin america, brazil and peru have large japanese pops, and here in mexico we have a large lebanese population and we had a mixed-chinese secretary of state too
I think his parents either fled palestine or just immigrated
My god, that's rating at 0.87 Young Stalins! We need a full detachment of Volcel Police here right now!
Sorry we took so long, god it's a mess here. I fear we may have been too late
Typical piggie response time, you call them in and they show up three hours later and the whole floor is already overflowing with cum. :stalin-stressed:
You know if he wins, a Biden administration is just going to try and paint Venezuela as the new USSR, trying to spread the eeeeevil gommunism all over Latin America. First Bolivia, then Chile. Will the bloodthirsty Maduro stop at nothing?!
Latin American reactionaries already do this. Moreso with Cuba though. Every vaguely left-wing political figure is immediately accused of being a castrochavista imperial agent (Trump also just accused Petro of this like a week ago without provocation for some reason).
That's not true, Venezuela is its own thing. The USSR was a threat because it was a huge country and always was. The treat Venezuela poses is the bolivarian project, of which is currently super weak since both ecuador and bolivia left that org that runs telesur.
Is it wishful thinking to hope that the general population is smarter than that nowadays?
a Biden administration is just going to try and paint Venezuela as the new USSR, trying to spread the eeeeevil gommunism all over Latin America. First Bolivia, then Chile.
Uh, based!
Pink Tide part 2 electric Boogaloo??? But hopefully they actually can successfully spread socialism across the entire continent because the USA is in terminal decline??
I'm still somewhat convinced that pink tide 1 only ended because of us intervention. Now that Trumps in charge and incompetent, they're coming back lol.
I'm scared of Biden's foreign policy. Trump is still a monster abroad, but Biden will have competent people in charge.
Cant believe we almost achieved proto-FALGSC in real life. Fuck P*nochet.
Train rides for Libertarians. Except they're just normal rides on a train.
"NO, THIS MUST BE PRIVATIZED, YOU CAN'T MAKE ME USE PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE, AHHHHHHHGGGG"
Trains in Chile are very bad :(
Edit: for those wondering, it is obviously Pinochet's fault
Read this interview with him about his book re: Palestine , even if you have to google translate it. He's incredibly based. Not just as in "holds the right opinions" but he's very analytical and would definitely stand out as an intellectual head of state.
also funny little thing one of the barrios in the commune where he's mayor is called the Angela Davis Barrio
Holy shit as a chilean I cant possibly tell you how good that poll is. Since Chile has a first round of voting and a second round with two the most voted presidential candidates, there is always the posibility that Jadue would have a good first round but the right wing candidates unite behind Lavín, but having left Jiles in a strong third place is what might push him through the finish line.
(Yes the elction is in 1 year but fuck it today I am happy)
Its a smallish party that has never have any major political power since the return of democracy, but as far as I can tell its has stood by its principles, supported venezuela and cuba, and to me seems like the best party for making the changes that the people are protesting for.
I would say that they are pretty good
are they actual communists though? we have some "communist" parties where i live who really are more like succdems lol
Wow my lack of theory knowledge wont help me to answer here, but yeah they are communists, unlike the socialist party, which has been succdem since the return of democracy, the have remained a leftist party
yeah they are communists, unlike the socialist party, which has been succdem since the return of democracy, the have remained a leftist party
you're the second person to tell me this so i'm gonna assume it's true and allow myself to be excited for once :chavez-salute:
I would be VERY, VERY careful with "Communist Parties" in SA, if they're like in Argentina then they suck, 100%. I've heard not-very-good stuff about the Chilean Communist Party, I'll have to ask around people who know a lot more about Chile than I do.
yea i'm brazilian and i've seen foreign communists excited about PCdoB having a governor when that party is just all libs
i've seen good stuff about the chilean party though, that in the last few years they were a bit lib but were generally good
I will reach out to friends and people I know that have more experience organizing/have been in the party and ask “what are we going to do to make sure hes elected?”, and then do that
After Bolivia, they are going to be on guard. If Joe Biden wins, this might actually represent danger to the rest of the world.
God I hope Kissenger lives just long enough to see him win and then fucking dies
