Pinochet was not a great person and was extremely authoritarian and cruel

But he did more than the socialists did for Chile and any other south American nation

@🅱oomer Ted Cruz
"Pinochet made huge economic reforms that led the way to it's more Capitalist economy that is doing well now"

Unless you want to contribute all economic growth after his regime to Pinochet, this is false. Wages decreased by an average of 8-9% under his regime. Throughout the overwhelming majority of his rule, **wages were significantly lower in Chile than the Latin American average.** Some 44-45% of Chilean households were in poverty near the end of the Pinochet regime.

The GDP growth he is often praised began at the very end of his rule and the vast majority of it occurred when he was out of this picture. Overall, there was very little GDP growth in Chile from 1975 until the mid 1980s. This is due to the fact that Pinochet's economic policies led to not one, but two economic recessions under his rule.

Show me any graph of Chile today that you feel proves Pinochet was a good leader, and I will direct you to the time period and years on that graph, and ask you when they occurred. The majority of Pinochet's rule featured economic struggle, with only a small period being genuine economic growth.

@The Big Oof#6475
Who is person
Who names their child person

@iwantfun I meant Peron

Thought so

divided by number of ovens in each camp

also not to be a stickler but they didn't cremate all the jews

divided by the number of people you can fit in an oven. Divided by how long it takes to cremate a body. Divided by the number of oven in each camp. Divided by the number of camps. Get it right noob.

Not to mention that numbers don't mean everything.

It's true, though.

The Nazis were socialists, at least according to themselves.

Well they didn't follow the traditional definition of socialism

It was a special kind of socialism where you privatize stuff

@Vilhelmsson Not socialist in the Marxist sense

Which is what a bunch of morons today think

Reminds me of comments on a youtube video about communism where retards were saying that Marx inspired Mussolini and Hitler

Lmao

Ye.

They hated Marx.

@Monorisuwu @Vilhelmsson The Hitlerites weren't socialist at all. Hitler sold off many of Germany's state owned industries and built an economy based around private enterprise. He was also backed by the industrialists.

Hitler later regretted choosing the name "national socialism" to describe his ideology.

Kek.

He ruined the word socialism

Didn't he create a large welfare state?

He did

Calling him socialist or Capitalist is very contrary to his beliefs

He did call himself Socialist, although, hee did not mean by that what we nowadays think of.

Well National Socialism is very different from Socialism

Its a mix of Keynesian economics and Protectionism

Its also more about culture and race than economic policy

@Obungus @Deleted User @Sy ✨ @Monorisuwu
Not my meme ffs

@Der Fahnenträger
Musoliniwas a socialist originally

@Vilhelmsson

Welfare is not socialism