Post by account_disabled on Mar 16, 2024 8:26:50 GMT 5
Allende played a decisive role. In his splendid biography of the president, Daniel Mansuy, a prestigious professor at the philosophy institute of the University of the Andes, concludes that Allende himself grossly overestimated his remarkable political ability. – his famous “doll” – to reconcile contradictory interests and reach consensus solutions. All of this ended up degenerating into alternative discourses that undermined his credibility and showed his political inability to control the coalition that kept him in power. The famous “Chilean road to socialism” was, to a large extent, a theoretical entelechy, a singular poetic rapture by Allende himself. It was, in essence, “the Allende route” lacking a theoretical design and a practical model. It was a product, to a large extent, of the spontaneism and improvisation of a process that generated its own internal dynamics. As Allende himself liked to say: “the way was made by walking.” To some extent, Allende was a conjurer, a kind of political “wizard,” accustomed to pulling a rabbit out of a hat at the right moment.
The biography that best captures his complex personality is, without a doubt, Eduardo Labarca's “Salvador Allende: a sentimental biography.” There, by the hand of a sympathizer and collaborator, what Daniel Mansuy describes as “many souls of Salvador Allende” are portrayed, unified under the halo of his most human passion. Allende was basically a seducer. He always loved to practice that remarkable skill that he possessed; with his parents, with his family and with his sisters, his university classmates, his comrades from the Socialist Party, with the members of the Popular Unity, with his political adversaries, with Patricio BYB Directory Aylwyn and Christian democracy, with the military and the Forces Armed and also, of course, with the many women who passed through his life. That extraordinary power of persuasion that, on many occasions, made him irresistible became, over time, a kind of amulet. Something similar to a predestined belief that nothing could go wrong because ultimately his providential intervention - a subtle dolling - would allow the crisis to be overcome by reconciling the contradictions.
And, in fact, this happened on numerous occasions. However, in the end the rope became too tight and broke. Allende, as a good Marxist, should have known that the contradictions generated by objective conditions cannot be overcome through voluntarist subjectivism.. The defeat of the Popular Unity and its own fracaso personnel were the inevitable result of the multiple errors committed during those thousand days of government. The first and fundamental is the disastrous economic policy of the popular unity government. Stefan de Vylder has analyzed it well in a classic work that is still valid and remains the best economic study of the Allende government. Briefly, It was the extraordinary monetary expansion carried out during the first year, multiplying the money in circulation by five, which sowed the seeds of subsequent chaos. The purchasing session of Congress denying the legitimacy of the Government and, finally, the resignation of Carlos Prats, commander in chief of the Armed Forces and last bastion against the coup, were so many other milestones that anticipated the inevitable. The immolation of September 11 in the La Moneda palace was the posthumous legacy of Salvador Allende, a messianic gesture preceded by the unforgettable words that, as a prayer, he addressed in his last farewell to all Chileans.
The biography that best captures his complex personality is, without a doubt, Eduardo Labarca's “Salvador Allende: a sentimental biography.” There, by the hand of a sympathizer and collaborator, what Daniel Mansuy describes as “many souls of Salvador Allende” are portrayed, unified under the halo of his most human passion. Allende was basically a seducer. He always loved to practice that remarkable skill that he possessed; with his parents, with his family and with his sisters, his university classmates, his comrades from the Socialist Party, with the members of the Popular Unity, with his political adversaries, with Patricio BYB Directory Aylwyn and Christian democracy, with the military and the Forces Armed and also, of course, with the many women who passed through his life. That extraordinary power of persuasion that, on many occasions, made him irresistible became, over time, a kind of amulet. Something similar to a predestined belief that nothing could go wrong because ultimately his providential intervention - a subtle dolling - would allow the crisis to be overcome by reconciling the contradictions.
And, in fact, this happened on numerous occasions. However, in the end the rope became too tight and broke. Allende, as a good Marxist, should have known that the contradictions generated by objective conditions cannot be overcome through voluntarist subjectivism.. The defeat of the Popular Unity and its own fracaso personnel were the inevitable result of the multiple errors committed during those thousand days of government. The first and fundamental is the disastrous economic policy of the popular unity government. Stefan de Vylder has analyzed it well in a classic work that is still valid and remains the best economic study of the Allende government. Briefly, It was the extraordinary monetary expansion carried out during the first year, multiplying the money in circulation by five, which sowed the seeds of subsequent chaos. The purchasing session of Congress denying the legitimacy of the Government and, finally, the resignation of Carlos Prats, commander in chief of the Armed Forces and last bastion against the coup, were so many other milestones that anticipated the inevitable. The immolation of September 11 in the La Moneda palace was the posthumous legacy of Salvador Allende, a messianic gesture preceded by the unforgettable words that, as a prayer, he addressed in his last farewell to all Chileans.
