Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism • Hacker News Board

Re: Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism

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Post by dang » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 8:34 PM UTC

NaggingGranpa wrote: post #30

monocasa wrote: post #22

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Nixon was extremely concerned about Chile, had constant updates from, and made it a high level goal of his presidency to overthrow Allende. The trashman strike was for sure CIA organized for instance. And it's a lot easier for your propaganda to take when your troops aren't committing massacres in the country like in Vietnam.

Nixon also made Vietnamization a high level goal of his presidency. How did that work out? Propaganda? Latin America is based on caste. If your "revolution" is based on stealing from the Spanish-blooded landowners to feed Amerindian losers who breed like rabbits, you will get opposition. Not much propaganda needed. And when the landowners send their sons to the army officer corps, you will have opposition with actual…

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Re: Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism

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Post by yowlingcat » Tue, Dec 03, 2019, 4:14 PM UTC

lowdose wrote: post #11

yowlingcat wrote: post #2

A sad trod through a common delusion of grandeur I see on the internet these days. If the Chilean control room was really ripped off of Star Trek, that's a little absurd and hilarious but moreover sad. On the flip side, I'm not sure how much I agree with its premise and conclusion. Sure, it's easy to mock technocommunism historically if you ignore the elephant in the room that is China. While not in the same category…

Have you seen NSA Chief Keith Alexander's "Information Dominance Center" in Fort Belvoir, Virginia that was designed to look like the 'Starship Enterprise' spacecraft from Star Trek? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/the-us-...

Wow, I missed this. How cringe-inducing!

Re: Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism

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Post by eirini1 » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 2:57 PM UTC

kspacewalk2 wrote: post #67

eirini1 wrote: post #52

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unprecedented prosperity for like, 20 people. The millions of other people definitely haven't enjoyed anything but immense poverty and misery since the Pinochet coup the implementation of the neoliberal wet dream.

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say you haven't traveled around Latin America much and have never been to Chile, and seen the dramatic difference?

thats fair, I haven't personally. However my wife is chilean and I am capable of reading and comprehending statistics so I'm satisfied.