“And what is the reason for our backwardness?  Who is responsible for our underdevelopment?  After many deformations and deceptions, the people have understood.  We know from our own experience that the real reasons for our backwardness are to be found in the system, in this dependent capitalist system which counterposes the rich minority to the needy majority internally and the powerful nations to the poor nations externally, a system in which the many make possible the prosperity.” (53)
 
November 5, 1970
 
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Salvador Allende Gossens, “Inaugural Address in the National Stadium,” in Salvador Allende Reader: Chile’s Voice of Democracy (New York: Ocean Press, 2000), 53.