Chile, another leftist to run capitalism in the name of the working class
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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chile-heads-polls-with-two-models-nation-stake-2021-12-19/
It is not a political contest between capitalism versus socialism, it is a contest between two tendencies within capitalism
Chile Votes for Socialism
And when Boric fails, it will be socialism that gets the bad name
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/12/chilean-presidential-election-boric-kast-socialism-or-barbarism
Another one from Jacobin: Socialism or Barbarism, and Jacobin does not even know that Boric was not running as a socialist either but as a social democrat. He was supported by a coalition similar to the one who supported Salvador Allende including the Christians social democrats
And he is going to fail because in order to fulfill his political promises he would be forced to negotiate with the right-wingers in the congress who obtained many seats in this election. I have seen some students movements leaders who called themselves socialists with more political knowledge and experiences than him who moved to the right and ended collaborating with the rulers
A typical leftwing interpretation of the Chile election result.
No easy predictions can be made since Chile has entered a radically different era, one in which major decisions will be made not by a politically unhindered ruling elite presiding over a passive population but by multiple social forces who have just regained their agency. Thus, in the current conjuncture, we need to show solidarity with the Chilean project so that it can find its way through the open-ended dynamics of history.
For ourselves, the prediction is a rather easy one, regardless of ideological slant, capitalism cannot be permanently reformed for the benefit and interests of the working class.
The IWW was once a significant force in Chile.
From its Preamble
“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.
Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organise as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.”Let’s see how long the honeymoon is going to last
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