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Post by account_disabled on Feb 22, 2024 4:29:07 GMT -5
Last but not least leftist politics gave rise to union organizations that socialized thousands of workers in the language of class interests and the fight against capitalist exploitation. This promising beginning however did not turn into a triumphant march. in precisely when the scenario seemed to become more favorable for the spread of leftist politics the forces that raised the red and black flags experienced stagnation if not a retraction that in general terms lasted until the present. The electoral reform that established the secret and mandatory Lebanon Mobile Number List for all male citizens instead of empowering the left exposed its limitations. When the majorities began to participate regularly in free and competitive elections they turned their backs on the proposal of socialists and communists who since the s displaced the anarchists then in full collapse as the most radical voice within the left. who together rarely exceeded of the votes. Towards the middle of the century the emergence of Colonel Juan Pern into public life reduced the electoral significance of these critics of the established order to less than half that figure. But it is important to remember that long before the nationalpopular rhetoric of Peronism overshadowed the left the idea that this sector of opinion could lead a powerful popular movement had already been denied.
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