I'm a mere observer and don't have much of a background:
Can anyone explain to me why is south American just filled to the brim with reactionaries that their left has to work overtime just not to let a fascist get elected?
Why are they on permanent crisis/polarized mode?
Bonus if answers are from SA.
Just optics. Western countries are so rich it makes any policy in global south look like a failure. 1% wealth growth in Germany, USA, France, etc. just dwarfs 10% growth in developing world.
in north america its
hitler: 50.1%
hitler 2: 49.9%
and it flips every 4 years
>Can anyone explain to me why is south American just filled to the brim with reactionaries that their left has to work overtime just not to let a fascist get elected?
Because of the US, I'm not kidding. Our domestic bourgeoisie and army aren't particularly powerful.
>>2940146forgot pic
>>2940171>Because of the US, I'm not kiddingYou say this as if it's some farflung conspiracy
Like yeah ok, But get into details?
>Can anyone explain to me why is south American just filled to the brim with reactionaries that their left has to work overtime just not to let a fascist get elected?
America is not special in these qualities, merely more overt
>Why are they on permanent crisis/polarized mode?
That’s just capitalism
Can we stop calling every damn thing fascism? The "left wing" Latin American govts also use the military and police to defend private property, and only exist to steal votes and support from actually revolutionary groups. But ok, enjoy another 50,000 years of social democracy I guess.
Does it never cross your mind that those right wing proles ,whom you dismiss as genetically reactionary, have those beliefs because their lives weren't any better under "leftist" governments as well?
>>2940206So what ? They're voting to get raped publically instead, make a better party then you mongoloid
The foundations of South American societies, compared with those of the British colonies in North America, were markedly different. While the latter developed relatively well-organized political institutions, educated populations and the foundations for functioning states, the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, on the other hand, were much more focused on extracting resources and enriching colonial elites, with less emphasis on building representative political institutions. So when the colonial system collapsed, a lot of these countries fell into prolonged periods of instability, with military strongmen and rival factions fighting for power for decades. They kept fighting each other, creating new states, overthrowing governments, and reshaping borders, making it difficult to establish any lasting political stability.
By the nineteenth century, most South American countries had managed to establish more permanent political structures, but these were still dominated by military leaders. Meanwhile, the US had grown into a major power and was increasingly throwing its weight around in the rest of the Americas, using its economic and political influence to shape what happened in the region. During the Cold War, it backed anti-communist military dictatorships and helped crush socialist movements. Over time, though, it distanced itself from some of those same right-wing military allies as the global political landscape changed. Since then, much of the region has had to deal with the effects of neoliberal economic policies, including privatization, austerity, growing inequality, and weakened public institutions, a neoliberal hell.
>>2940226>They're voting to get raped publically insteadwrong, they are voting to intensify contradictions, they only care for historical necessity, your petite bourgeois libtard lesser evil moralist brain just cant handle it, thats why you start vomiting chauvinistic prolephobic nonsense to cope
Lots of US influence unironically, and i dont mean this as an excuse for socdems in those countries. US has huge influence via thinktanks and such, pretty impressive network and botfarms.
>>2940146not true, you fell for a CIA psyop
remember how they made up that maduro was the leader of a cartel? it fell apart because they had zero evidence. they have done the same with every left-wing guerrilla, but those are less important so they often got away with it. they just craft the vibes
>>2940206>all these electoral parties seem fascist>therefore, we shouldn't use the word fascistarguing semantics because you don't want your opponents to feel demeaned. what a contribution to the topic
>>2940278>implyingstandard capitalism is just fascism that has succeeded
>>2940300FARC-EP were never a cartel in the sense that I don’t think they were ever involved directly in production of cocaine but they protected peasants growing it (who were forced by United Fruit) and taxed the trade when it went through their territories. The actual cartels are the right wing paramilitaries like Gulf Clan who get high on their own supply and butcher people with power tools.
fuck what everyone else has said in this thread. the answer is USA intervention. does that seem too simple? does that seem like an exaggeration? well fuck you. that's how it is.
Tbh US intervention has played a prominent role. LA wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t due to American intervention. It’s true that many countries like El Salvador could kill its own people without the aid of US, but US made it worse
>>2940306>>2940453Doesn't explain why the USA became more powerful than Latin America in the first place. IMO the answer is that the USA was mostly colonized by capitalists and Latin American colonization had more feudal elements to it.
Great Satan US rapes every country in Latin American
Because our communist parties suck and dont engage in the ideological struggle, allowing reactionary false consciousness to cancerously grow
>>2941488They suck because they are not mass movements, hence they have zero power. Your 0.01% hardcore true marxist party will always get crushed by the people.
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