Како изгледа левичарска револуција во 21 век, ќе можеме да следиме од Чиле. Нема да коментирам оти и сам не сум сигурен дали сите постапки ми се бендисуваат.
Disclaimer: All my sources for this story are local (Chilean) and recent so they're in Spanish. Apologies for that. Hopefully your browser translator features will help you if you want to check the sources yourself.
About 7-8 months ago
I wrote a post about what Chile was going through politically, and how the people had turned against neoliberalism and were heading to the polls to choose their next President, amidst a Constitutional change brought about by an overwhelming referendum in favour of change (78% approval). However, at that time no one knew (we still don't quite exactly know) what this change was all about. The left-leaning President won, and now things are starting to look clearer: it is al full blown far-left revolution. And no, I am not using the label flippantly to decry gender ideologues or woke propaganda. I am talking about the loss of property rights, calls to eliminate the separations of power, widespread expropriations, and more. You know, the stuff of the
true far-left.
Recently, a terrible precedent took place in Chile. The Supreme Court ruled
in favour of squatters and against property owners (timestamp 13:08). Long story short, the owners of property in Viña del Mar were told that they cannot kick out the squatters unless they themselves coordinate with
all relevant authorities (police, local council, and all relevant ministers and divisions) so they can give the squatters a housing solution. There were hints of this before, mainly espoused and peddled by Giorgio Jackson (current MP and one of the brains behind the recently elected President Gabriel Boric's program) when he stated (paraphrasing) that squatters won't be kicked out unless the State could give them a housing solution. It seems that the fears some of us had have materialised for good. You can imagine where this goes and ends.
A
proposal has also been introduced to dissolve the main three powers of the State (Executive, Judiciary and Legislative) to be replaced by 600-member assembly (which some have already equated to the Politburo) in which:
-Members will be elected via local assemblies in different industrial and service sectors, aboriginal peoples, and other communities,
-People could do away with their representatives by simple majority (apparently at any time)
-Participation of aboriginal people's is
optional and the right to self-determination of those people is guaranteed (they cannot be forced to be part of the State).
The assembly is to be called "The Plurinational Assembly of the workers and the peoples". I suggest you read the proposal to get a glimpse of the language used in it.
There are plans (rumours at least, nobody knows for sure with all the flipflops that the elected politicians have engaged in) to expropriate
superannuation funds and
do away with free trade agreements if these contravene some of the stipulations of the new Constitution in terms of the myriads of protections that are proposed. Basically that "international free trade agreements that limit and restrict the sovereignty of the peoples in terms of policies on food, health, environment, education, social policies, natural common resources, human rights and those of aboriginal peoples, social and workers rights, State economical activity, legislation and regulation, and national defense
are unconstitutional." (emphasis mine, translation mine, from the last link).
The list goes on.
However, the New Constitution has not been formally written yet, and we will have a second referendum to approve it or reject. We still don't know when the referendum will be, or what the final text will look like (so far the snippets don't look great unless you're firmly on the far left side of the spectrum). I am not entirely sure it will pass, either, or what the aftermath of that vote will be. On the one hand many will vote to pass it not because it's worth the vote; it's just a "fuck you" vote against the previous system. Many others will also push for it because they belong to the same political camp that those who were elected to create the new Constitution (of which the majority are left or far-left; the right is simply non-existent in practice as it doesn't have the numbers to do anything). However, there is a whiff in the air that the new Constitution will be
so out of touch in some regards with enough people that they will vote against it; that there will be
something (anything) that will rub different people wrong in different ways to do away with their thirst for change.
Many of us voted to change the Constitution because we wanted change. Seventy-eight percent of the voting population. But I'm not quite sure how many of these millions of people wanted
just any change, or, more specifically,
this change. But if the new Constitution is rejected it might call for even bigger chaos and violence than if it was approved.
If anyone is interested on what a left-wing country-wide revolution against capitalism looks like in practice in the 21st century, keep an eye out for Chile in the next couple of years. I suspect it will not look like what ideologues envisioned.
I for one am waiting for the new Constitution to dissect it, but I'm not holding my breath.