Recently, I have been reading more about the Chilean coup.

Where do you think Allende made his error that resulted in his downfall?

If you were in his position (having been elected as a socialist and successfully taken power, while in the shadow of the United States and having a military hostile to you), what would you have done differently?

  • Jadzia_Dax [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    He tried to do things the “fair” way

    Allowing fascists and counter-revolutionaries to fester is not fair, it's idealistic and tragic.

    • scraeming [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      From what little I understand of the Chile 1970 election's events, "fair" would have been using that Chilean General getting killed in a failed kidnapping by another General for refusing to step in to stop Allende as justification for completely removing all dissidents from commanding ranks of the military and installing his own brass. Like, you have guys in your military that were willing to kidnap and kill generals that weren't even sympathetic to you, but merely refused to interfere with the political process on principle of respecting the Chilean constitution. Giant fucking red flag klaxon alarm screaming "THESE PEOPLE WILL DEPOSE YOU, GET RID OF THEM".