The 1973 coup against democratic socialism in Chile still matters – there, in Britain and beyond
This recent article perpetuates a fifty year old myth. Facts should still matter: the term 'democratic socialism' is a tautological misnomer, and in her book Democracy and Revolution: Latin America and Socialism Today D. L. Raby writes "with a president voted in by only 36 per cent of the electorate and a coalition which only briefly achieved a little more than 50 per cent (in April 1971), there was no real mandate for revolutionary change."
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