Comrade f580,
Thank you for this piece as it reminds me of a correction I need to make. I
stated Charles Horman as being assassinated in Guatemala I believe but in fact
it was Chile where he was mistaken by the US members of the planning crew for
the coup d etat of Allende as a member of this plot. When the CIA realized he
was not and who he was he was summarily executed in order to prevent him from
exposing the CIA plot to overthrow Allende.
This history is an excellent example of CIA covert activities and how they
resort to assassination to serve their ends. But I guess since it is the US
bourgeoisie who use this violence it is alright with certain Marxists.
Fraternally
Mark Scott
--- On Thu, 12/23/10, frankenstein580 <frankied...@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: frankenstein580 <frankied...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [MLL] The extermination of the Allende Government
To: marxist-leninist-list@lists.econ.utah.edu
Date: Thursday, December 23, 2010, 2:02 PM
http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/charlie/chile1973.htm
Military Dictatorship in Chile 1973-1975
The Allende experiment enjoyed a triumphant first year, followed by two
disastrous final years. According to the UP, Chile was being exploited by
parasitic foreign and domestic capitalists. The government therefore moved
quickly to socialize the economy, taking over the copper mines, other foreign
firms, oligopolistic industries, banks, and large estates. By a unanimous vote
of Congress in 1971, the government totally nationalized the foreign copper
firms, which were mainly owned by two United States companies, Kennecott and
Anaconda. The nationalization measure was one of the few bills Allende ever got
through the opposition- controlled legislature, where the Christian Democrats
constituted the largest single party.
Socialization of the means of production spread rapidly and widely. The
government took over virtually all the great estates. It turned the lands over
to the resident workers, who benefited far more than the owners of tiny plots
or the numerous migrant laborers. By 1972 food production had fallen and food
imports had risen. Also during 1971-72, the government dusted off emergency
legislation from the 1932 Socialist Republic to allow it to expropriate
industries without congressional approval. It turned many factories over to
management by the workers and the state...
Politically, Allende faced problems holding his Popular Unity coalition
together, pacifying the more leftist elements inside and outside Popular Unity
and, above all, coping with the increasingly implacable opposition. Within
Popular Unity, the largest party was the Socialist Party. Although composed of
multiple factions, the Socialist Party mainly pressed Allende to accelerate the
transition toward socialism. The second most important element was the PCCh,
which favored a more gradual, legalistic approach. Outside the Popular Unity,
the most significant left-wing organization was the MIR, a tiny but provocative
group that admired the Cuban Revolution and encouraged peasants and workers to
take property and the revolutionary process into their own hands, much faster
than Allende preferred.
The most important opposition party was the PDC. As it and the middle sectors
gradually shifted to the right, they came to form an anti-Allende bloc in
combination with the Natinal Party and the propertied class. Even farther to
the right were minuscule, paramilitary, quasi-fascist groups like Fatherland
and Liberty (Patria y Libertad), determined to sabotage Popular Unity.
[read more]
http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/charlie/chile1973.htm
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