Popular Power in Allendes Chile
It\u2019s easier to remember the histories of defeat, than those of social transformation. But in the three years preceding the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, the country experimented with a form of socialism that was both top down and bottom up. Historian Marian Schlotterbeck discusses how under Salvador Allende\u2019s government, the radical left fueled changes at the grassroots, including through popular assemblies \u2014 and altered, for a few years, expectations about the possible.\nResources:\nMarian E. Schlotterbeck,\xa0 Beyond the Vanguard: Everyday Revolutionaries in Allende\u2019s Chile UC Press, 2018\n\n\u201cA Thousand Days of Democracy: Sasha Lilley Interviews Marian Schlotterbeck\u201d\nThe post Popular Power in Allende\u2019s Chile appeared first on KPFA.