Allende's Chile
Is It Going Socialist?
Camejo, Peter
Publisher: Pathfinder Press, New York, USA
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Year Published: 1971
Pages: 30 pp Resource Type: Pamphlet
The reforms the Allende government has implemented are a direct product of mass pressure generated by the struggles of the workers and peasants of Chile. The reforms brought him increased popularity, which was reflected in the municipal elections last April in which the Popular Unity coalition received more votes than all its opponents combined. Can these and other reforms be taken as a sign that Chile is moving toward socialism?
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In the broader, objective sense, it is the policies of North American imperialism which prevent a solution to Chilean poverty. The capital necessary to industrial Chile exists in the United States. But these funds are diverted by the imperialists to the prosecution of the criminal war against the Vietnamese. The U.S. economic system, based on the profits for the rich, cannot now raise even the standard of living for the workers in the United States. For Nixon, Kennedy, Rockefeller, McGovern- for the ruling class- the misery of the Chilean people is irrelevant, except insofar as the consequent unrest makes them more difficult to control and exploit.
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