Chile didn't even have decent growth until after Pinochet left

Soviet Union was an economic miracle and it's something even the bourgeois at the time acknowledged

With the distance of time it's now important for the bourgeois to place in everyones minds the food queues, food shortages and prostitution of Russia during capitalist restoration and place this blame at the foot of the communists

Listen to the great newspapers. They have a bitter pill to swallow.

Le Temps in its number of January 27th, 1932, says: “The Soviet Union has won the first round by industrializing itself without the aid of foreign capital.” The same paper, some months later, in April, observes: “Communism seems to have leaped in one bound over the constructive stage which in a capitalist regime has to be crossed very slowly. To all intents and purposes, the Bolsheviks have beaten us in this respect.”

The Round Table: “The achievements of the Five-Year Plan constitute a surprising phenomenon.”

The Financial Times: “There can be no doubt about their success. The Communists’ exultation in the Press and in their speeches is by no means without foundation.”

The Neue Freie Presse ( Austria): “The Five-Year Plan is a modern giant.”

The Nation ( United States): “The four years of the Five-Year Plan show a really remarkable series of achievements. The Soviet Union has devoted itself with an intense activity, more appropriate to war-time, to the construction of the foundations of a new life.”

Forward ( Scotland): “What England did during the war was a mere bagatelle beside it. The Americans recognize that even the feverish period of the most intense construction in the Western states could offer nothing comparable to it…a degree of energy unprecedented in the history of the world. A brilliant challenge to a hostile capitalist world.”

Barbusse, Henri. Stalin. New York: The Macmillan company, 1935, p. 215-216

Communism bad because it helps the poorest. Fascism good because it enriches the already rich.

Socialism? I don’t think so, but I could be wrong.

When Allende came to power in Chile he came to power as a democrat first and foremost. He was a Marxist but he emphasised again and again he held democracy high and that he was merely representing the factions of the left which had united

When Castro told Allende (referring to the counter-revolutionary feeling developing amongst the right/the military and traditionalists) to "get these people under control" Allende instead insisted he had found a 3rd way between the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and capitalism

Allende claims that this is Chile's historic oppor tunity to open a “second way” to socialism without the human costs of revolutionary violence.

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/17/archives/the-opposition-in-chile-said-castro-to-allende-if-you-dont-get.html

Marx and Engels developed the theory of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and why Marx famously remarked they'll be "no apology for the terror". Because if you walk up to the bourgeois meekly bowing your head and asking politely for reforms they'll do what they did in Chile - run a ruthless dictatorship of the bourgeois in which people are disappeared, executed and incarcerated for having ever walked on the same side of the street as a communist/socialist or trade unionist