Lectures: 32
In 1989 Chilean socialism was reunited with Clodomiro Almeyda and Jorge Arrate as the most visible leaders.
This was carried out after years of division and dictatorial repression that was implacable and cost many lives, suffering and exclusion.
A short walk from the unit, the Socialist Party took out a poster that said the “old and wise” Socialist Party. I was a young man and I didn’t like it very much. I would have preferred one that said young and revolutionary.
Today, I think that poster gave an account of a reality: the Socialist Party had grown old but it had also grown wise from pain.
Experience is learning from suffering. Smart people learn from their own pain, and the smartest people can even learn from the failures of others.
It is no secret to anyone that the government is currently experiencing difficulties, which are not of these days, but come from the imprudent tour to the south of the former minister of the interior who has become a sudden opponent these days.
In these difficult times, the Socialist Party has shown that it knows how to do things, taking into account a prudence that in the past it did not have and, above all, being in tune with the citizenry.
The latter perceives it, it spreads through the streets of Santiago »thank goodness the socialists are» the poster from the early 90s comes to mind old and wise learned and learned well
The Socialist Party without reaching obsequiousness without accepting vexatious treatment, the Socialists have given consistency to the government. Mario Marcel is a guarantee, which gives the much-needed confidence in the economy in which expectations are fundamental. When people do not believe in economic management, investment is inhibited and that is disastrous For his part, Undersecretary Monsalve works hard and well, the problem of the lack of citizen security tends to lessen but it was so great that the feeling that this improves It comes with a certain delay, but the average citizen realizes that this is on the way to a solution and that the undersecretary works a lot and talks little.
Finally, the incorporation of Álvaro Elizalde has been giving a silent and useful consistency to the government-parliament relationship, which at some point was very conflictive and which was transforming that constitutional power into an opposition trench.
I go back to the “old and wise” poster.
And since we are now 50 years old, it cannot be forgotten that the most important socialist of the 20th century had very critical moments for his government and for the country in which he did not have socialist support.
With everything and this, on September 11, the few rifles of dignity that faced the coup cannot be ignored. They were wielded by a socialist hand.
Fortunately these are other times and in these the PS has shown that the old poster was right “old and wise”.
To finish, I must state that I am not part of the Socialist Party’s records, therefore this is a description and not a self-praise.
By Roberto Avila Toledo
