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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Self-determination
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 02:53:31 EST
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> > 	As for elections, I suppose they could be fair but I've yet
> > to hear of Marxist-Leninist success in an election commonly regarded
> > as fair.  
> 
> Obviously you forgot Allende of Chile.
> -- 
> 						Mark Roddy

  Allende was not a Marxist-Leninist. He was a socialist and the leader of the
socialist party. He never ran his ticket as a marxist-leninist, not even as a
communist. For the elections in 1970, he knew (from having run several times
in the 60's) the socialist party couldn't win an election unless they ally
with the more extreme left parties, so he created and headed the so-called
"Unidad Popular" (Popular Unity), with the socialist and communist parties.
  Allende always kept his distance from the extreme left but in his alliance
with the communist he surrounded himself with communist advisors and ministers.
  Just setting the record straight,
-- 
    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
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