“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.