Usman Ahmad’s Reviews > Salvador Allende: A Revolutionary Legacy > Status Update

As he expressed to the High Command in 1972, ‘there are no powerful armed forces if there are peoples decimated by illness or punished by ignorance. There are no powerful armed forces in countries that are economically, culturally and sometimes, all too often, politically dependent.

The left campaigned on the slogan ‘Bread, Roof and Clothing’, the right on ‘Order and Work'.

Allende put his left hand in his jacket pocket, raised his right hand and began: ‘Gentlemen!’ A stunned silence followed.22 This revolutionary had committed the heresy of not calling his fellows ‘comrades.
Lulz!