Pants-of-dog wrote:It is not surprising that a pituco would think a free market dictatorship is a successful society.
For those who don't know, "pituco" is a Chilean term used to refer to rich people. Ironically, pituco is only used by other rich nowadays. The commonly used term is "cuico".
I did not say Pinochet was good for society, only that society did not "break down" when he took over: Chilean society had already been broken down by the time the military took over, indeed, it is precisely because society had already been broken down that Chilean democracy had become impossible to sustain. One could even make the case Chilean society had already broken down by the time Allende was elected, too.
I will note the Chilean left has a lot of cuicos and so did in Allende's administration. Allende himself as cuico as it could possibly be, as anyone who's read his biography or seen his old house in the high income part of Santiago can attest. Our current Allende wannabee, Boric, is also a cuico.
This is not odd at all, all the Marxist revolutionaries came from the haves of society, including people like Fidel Castro.
Only a "cuico abajista" (a rich person ashamed of his privilege) and some deluded middle and low class people, thinking they'll get a larger cut of the pie in exchange for their most elemental freedoms, would believe a communist dictatorship is good for society.