Two dictators, Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet, both brought tremendous suffering upon the Chilean people — one through his socialist policies and nationalization of industry, and the other through systematic campaigns of terror. Salvador Allende (1908-1973) won the 1970 presidential elections in Chile, though only marginally. Allende’s coalition, Popular Unity (UP), consisting of Socialists and ...
George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26th in Dublin, son of George Carr Shaw. George Carr Shaw was a corn miller who made a very modest income. He was unable to pay for a proper education for his son due to an equal combination of poverty and alcoholism. Due to his unfortunate circumstances, Shaw ...
On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military overthrew the country’s socialist dictator and president, Salvador Allende. What led the military to such a dramatic step? The Allende regime, in its colossal scope of rights violations, was rapidly becoming intolerable. The military in Chile, in accordance with the country’s general attitudinal trend, was willing to be ...
This investigation examines how capitalist society created a system of oppression that fostered the growth of black communism. Second, this investigation aims to consider how communism impacts certain issues such as the “nationalization of culture” and the “Negro question” which are critical for understanding the oppression that created the system of black Marxism. Through a ...
