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zebra2 · 4169 days ago · link · · parent · post: 40 years since the Pinochet coup, revisiting the Situationist analysis
Whatever faults there were with the Allende government, I feel it's pretty wacky to blame him for the atrocities of one of the world's great dictators that followed him. It's a bit like placing the moral blame of a burglary on the homeowner because they left a window open.Allende was as responsible as Pinochet for the mass murders of workers and peasants in Santiago, Valparaiso, Antofogasta and the provinces.
user-inactivated · 4169 days ago · link ·
Considering Allende's disarmament of the workers' militias just before the coup, a better analogy would be putting (part of) the moral blame on the guy who took a gun away from a subsequently murdered home invasion victim, at the request of the thugs, as they started to kick down the door.