Yesterday I spent the day at home. I was obliged, because they planned to give us the bed that day. I hope he will arrive around noon so I can make out what I have to make another, but I'm completely wrong. It was only five boo afternoon they called me they have damaged our bed by loading it into the truck and they're going to deliver an interim basis for another model. And that's what happened. At seven and a half hours of evening. So I spent the day confined to her sofa.
Meanwhile, I devoured a book in Czech, unfortunately, Jarka Stuchlíková "Indiana, politica, plukovníci" (Indian politicians, colonels). Ms. Stuchlikova lived with her husband, a social anthropologist, to Temuco in the south of Santiago, in the years 1969-1973. It is very important years in Chile. She lived thus the period of Allende and the military putsch. She arrived in Chile after the August 1968, ie the invasion of Soviet tanks in Prague and they fled to Chile after the putsch, as they were in mortal danger.
I really enjoyed how she described her life between Mapuche Indians, but the book speaks especially of the policy. Stuchlikova said that "Allende's really annoyed" and she speaks of him in very strong words like "bungler". At least half the book is devoted to things that Allende was hurt. Coincidentally, last week I saw a film about Allende by Patricio Guzman. This documentary film paas in France five years ago. If you recall, Guzman is very nostalgic for the period of Allende, and regrets the many blockades American influence that Nixon made on Chile's development and what has come to the putsch. I'm trying to think much of it and I want to ask you what you you think.
Czechs of my generation and older are seeing red, mostly, when we say a communist. I remember my surprise when I found that all my friends that I met during my Erasmus stay in Toulouse, leftists or even Communists. Strangely, for my brain post-dictatorial, these people with the same values as I did not understand that the left is evil? We were there to testify. But my English friends may well have been witness to Franco. A repetition, I realized that while my friends are people left in general, very open, youth on the right are a little youth and gold often think that the party and themselves. Not that we are not shod not the party, of course. But you can party in the boxes where they let you enter if you are well dressed and if they like your mouth where you can go out in clubs where it does not count. Finally, this is obvious for a French, but I did not know we could not let you because of your outfit. Gradually, in conversations with people, I realized that although I can never be a communist, I can be friends with communist because their utopian ideal is equality. it does not ask myself a moral problem, while the far right if, because their worldview is based on historical or genetic hierarchy. In short, I realized that my values are what we call "the left". When I got my job at the university in France, so I was more surprised by the fact that my colleagues have left, what would happen to me ever in Czechia. My friends have left and the cosmonaut as well.
I then realized that this left-right thinking is completely twisted in Czechia. It must be the only country where the Greens say they are entitled to. I vote Greens me because they have good ideas left. But they can not say they are left if they want to be elected. And I assure you, I would vote never left the Czech Republic, because I see no difference between them and the right.
But back to Allende, who so hated by Stuchlikova had left the Communist Czechia. I'm still not so sure he was the bungler, as stated Stuchlikova. On the contrary, I think it was a chance for Chile. There was a development towards the left anyway. Allende was a man with deep democratic values and he respected freedom of press and laws. Stuchlikova said he would handle it even ever election. He had a role very difficult with the left émietée, with the extreme left who wanted to train guerrillas, with the blockades. You can imagine there was someone else in his place? And he shod all the changes without "calm" the situation by banning diffisuion propaganda right? Without limiting democracy?
Stuchlíková said it was responsible for Allende putsch, because he still polarized Chilean society to the left and right and it has stimulated the hatred between the two. I think and I say it's a bit light for an explanation to understand the barbarity of the military junta. These barbarities there, they suggest the Nazis. I'm not sure the desire dénnoncer the other, the angry people can be caused just by politicians. And even it was mostly the Chilean right, who used methods such as bombings which has erupted in anger. But three years of the nationalization of enterprises and corporate reorganization, is that enough to explain the barbarities? If they say no, then it came from? Is the human mind? Does the fact that human beings can be the first to see the results of its own cruelty to take fright, as it happened in Europe after World War II when the Charter of Human Rights was created? Because I do not think that politicians during election campaigns do oposent people against each other, but I do not think you could live like violance in the Western world.
I wonder how I would see things if I lived in August 1968 as she did. But at the same time, I see little difference between the Prague Spring with its vision of communism transforms "communism with a human face" and the Allende regime. If the tanks are not they coming to Prague, Communism there, he became dictatorial again, where it dissipated in a democracy where the right would win one day, inevitably? What would happen to Chile if there were no blockades the U.S.? Right, would it change the left or the elections there would be a putsch? How Czechia would it look now? And Chile?
One thing that I am 100% agree with Stuchlikova. What happens after the dictatorship is the same everywhere. The new system is on it is necessarily better than what was before and it is not completely vain and people do not know to be critical, stop looking in terms of black and white as they did during dictatorship. "Selfishness, greed and utilitarianism is tranforment in the success and few people show solidarity with those less successful and thus have fewer resources "..." The discipline of hard work under the dictate military spawns the country that Allende would not recognize. But economic progress is not everything, especially if it divides society into rich and beggars in the direction of ideas, materialists and idealists. "
You, what do you think?
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