Salvador Allende, a Castroite Socialist who was briefly president of Chile was far luckier than other Marxist messiahs in that he had the good fortune to be overthrown before he could do much damage to his country or neighbours. Since his administration was therefore a largely theoretical one, he's become a favourite of leftists who sigh over Allende's bright dawn of hope before the dark night of Pinochet.
Still, Allende did leave us something to remember him by, like his plan to turn Chile into a Socialist technocracy run from the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. A pity all the super cool monitors are just back projection slide projectors and there was no way to actually control anything or even make a phone call from the "control room".
Swings and roundabouts, I suppose
Actually, that control room affords the same amount of "control" that should be allowed in Washington, home of the new socialist technotopia.
ReplyDeleteObama, Biden, et al, could play with the buttons all day and just be told of all the good they are doing. It could work.
It would have to be better than what they are doing right now.