>Macdonald Stainsby wrote:
>>
>> the blame for the actions rest entirely with Pinochet and the
>> CIA- we cannot blame the victims, even if they travelled a road
>>that had killed many
>> before.
>>
>
>(Assigning blame is on the whole not a very useful practice, but if we
>do, some distinctions are necessary, as follows.)
>
>Re Pinochet, CIA, etc.: They are merely the enemy; 'blaming' them is
>sort of beside the point.
>
>Re the 'victims': The victims were the many thousands of Chilean workers
>slaughtered, tortured, exiled.
>
>Allende was the man who _led_ the victims to slaughter. He was no
>victim. I do believe that insofar as "blame" is a relevant category, it
>is Allende and his chief advisers, leading comrades who should receive
>that label. It is not an innocent mistake to trust that the capitalists
>will submit peacefully to the dissolution of capital.
>
>Carrol
Allende may be "blamed" for his naivete. What of the responsibility
of American leftists & proletariat, though? Much of the 20th century
atrocities could have been averted or at least mitigated had the
American working class been revolutionary.
Yoshie
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