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When I was a boy of about fourteen or fifteen, I used to hang around the shop of a shoemaker, an anarchist called Juan Demarchi, to hear him talk and exchange views with him. That was in Valparaiso at the time when I was at grammar school. After the school day, I used to go and converse with this anarchist, who was a great influence on my life as a boy. He was sixty or perhaps sixty-three and he was quite happy to talk with me. He taught me how to play chess, he spoke to me of the things of life, and he lent me books … Régis Debray Which books? Salvador Allende All the essentially theoretical works, so to speak, like Bakunin, for example, but the most important thing was Demarchi’s commentaries because I didn’t have the temperament for reading in depth; he explained things to me with the simplicity and clarity that one finds in self-taught workers.
✏️ Such a cool character concept. The shoemaker anarchist mentor. 👓 ttrpg character 🔗 View Highlight
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As long as there are contradictions in society, and these remain even while we are building socialism, confrontations will occur. Let us leave aside the basic antagonisms: they are settled by the class struggle.
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once our constitutional reform is implemented, powerful interests inside and outside the country will suffer. Those people who are going to feel the effect of our land reform or the nationalization of the banks are going to want to react. How could there not be antagonism when our first principles are based on the essential fact of the class struggle? We know that the oligarchical groups, the plutocratic groups, the feudal groups will try to defend their privileges at all costs.
✏️ Less than a year later, military coup as expected and predicted really. How does one avoid this? Either you run a socialist government that isn’t authoritarian but pisses off the elite enough to eradicate you, or you have an authoritarian socialist government that will piss off the proletariat and destroy itself from within (i think?) 🔗 View Highlight