Allende died in the presidential palace while resisting the coup. The ruling class is always telling the masses that they must resolve their problems at the ballot box. The events in Venezuela are putting all this to the test. Now a body has been elected to overhaul a corrupt system that has proven conclusively that it cannot provide the basics of life for most of the people. The squalid slums that have grown up around the modern city of Caracas prove this to the world.
Social revolution is clearly what is called for.
Yet already Washington is showing alarm, meaning that it is covertly working on how to undo the results of these elections. The vultures in Washington certainly understand the crucial question of who controls the state. They cultivated military coups in most of Latin America when needed to stop popular movements. What must really worry them now is that a good section of the Venezuelan military cannot be counted on to do their bidding in a crisis. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed.