Okay, #realtalk on Allende: “Somehow no one can find it in their recollection that this idiot — Allende — refused to arm the workers, consistently tried to keep workers’ organizations arms-free, and was literally the one who literally appointed Pinochet chief of staff of the army” (h/t Jonathan Munis). By pointing this out, I do not in any way intend to diminish the historical significance of Pinochet’s US-backed military coup, which as an event was a massacre and led to more than three decades of institutionalized reaction. My intention is not so much to ridicule the memory of a murdered man, populist pygmy though Allende was, as it is to draw attention to the selective amnesia of hero-mongering leftists.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:06:09 +0000
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