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Well, Chile was a democratic election but then came the CIA because those nasty people wanted their own resources for themself!

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OK, that’s as good an answer as any.

Salvador Allende got couped three years after his election. Are there any ways you can think to prevent a foreign power from undermining future hypothetical socialist governments that wouldn’t be authoritarian?

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Gun.jpg

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Yea, because they just gave up and certainly didn’t try to defend themswlf, sadly even a gun is of no use as poor third world country facing the world power, I can’t see a way to prevent that.

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Yea, the CIA got rid of them and installed one of the worse dictators in history. Luckily the fight against communism is over so I have my doubts it would happen that way again but especially for a poor country I see no chance whatsoever be that with or without violence :(

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The coup in Bolivia kind proved that even social democracy is off the table if it interferes with imperialist interests.

This is a problem that all anti-capitalist ideologies have to face.

The capitalist hegemony has an interest in preventing nations from shifting away from the status quo, so socialist, anarchist, whatever revolution that is fought, however it is fought. It will have to carry out some practices that would be decried as authoritarian to protect themselves from outside interference.

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Are violent revolutions not a form of democracy? They generally require popular support to succeed.

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but I thought propaganda was when I don’t listen to the western narrative

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