The source is The Battle of Chile, great long-form documentary, highly recommend. Tragically sad though, as all looks at Allende's experience are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_69sNztBFSM
This reminds me. Venezuelan capitalists created the whole "empty shelf crisis" that led the west to constantly say "socialism vuvuzela no food". When Maduro tried to regulate prices and make necessities affordable to venezuelans, Venezuelan agribusinesses refused to sell to supermarkets, kept food under lock and key, and exported perishables to Columbia for cheaper than Maduro would have had them charge at home.
I learned this from a video titled "Leftist debunks John Oliver's Venezuela Episode" It was censored on Youtube supposedly because of grainy footage of a Chavista being attacked by fascists about 40 minutes in but we all know the real reason.
It's shocking how much of the discontent under Allende was also manufactured
when you nationalize though you just get CIA'd. what we really need is a good old :no-fash::amerikkka:
They also had their own dorky street fascists who end up taking power https://ibb.co/mSWJ56b
who were also feds https://ibb.co/ZzS2Vsb
I'm being glib, but I would really watch part 1 if you're at all knowledgeable about American fascism. I can't put my finger on it, but the way Chilean rightwingers talk and act is eerily familiar
in the film Machuca the rich kids older brother is one of those fascists and he has pair of nunchucks he uses to beat Allende supporters LOL
Ok but are you people seriously not stockpiling food right now?
Not reselling it on tbe black market to my community, and also not 20 tons of sugar? I think there's a difference
Mate, you have kulaks doing this under the most disgustingly naked capitalism you can get. Kulaks gonna kulak no matter what
Didn't say I was surprised to learn it! I also wasn't surprised to learn how much the CIA was posted up in there, but I learned it too
400 boxes of toilet paper! There's no WAY we would ever see any kind of hoarding like that in America....
would collective stockpiling be a good idea? like setting up a "group beans fund"?
It's not meant to extract value for needed items for exploiting a crisis; instead it is collectively pooling community resources to aid community members. If one plan ends with someone hoping to be the happy pig on top of the money pile, while the other is geared towards ensuring all the elderly peeps and starving kids on your street have access to food, water and medicine well ya can tell which is which.
One hundred percent, especially if you do it as a collective
