Socialist Party of Chile

Propaganda in “The Jungle” The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a novel exploiting the lives of Lithuanian immigrants in Chicago during the Industrial Revolution of the early 19th century. The immigrants have a goal of achieving the American dream, and as the story goes on they are faced with the horrors of the meat packing industry. Upton Sinclair is a yellow journalist and muckraker during the progressive era, therefore the story is bound to have exaggeration in order for him to succeed in…

ignorant. … The truth is that Helen Keller was a radical socialist. She joined the Socialist Party of Massachusetts in 1909. She had become a social radical even before she graduated from Radcliffe, and not, she…

Helen Keller, a woman who at a very young age, had to adapt to a whole new way of life, and no one around her knew about it.” Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880,” Helen was a healthy newborn until the age of “nineteen months” when she developed an illness which led to the loss of her sight and hearing. Because of this, her parents didn’t know what the next step to take was so she could be led down the right path. Eventually they found a woman named Anne Sullivan who could potentially…

New York's City College and receiving his degree from City College, Sinclair went on to graduate school at Columbia University” (Authors and Artists for Young Adults). Not only is Upton Sinclair a famous author, but he also was a supporter of the socialist movement. According to St. James Guide…

children per women. This rapid and social change can be traced back to the life work of Margaret Sanger. Sanger used her own strategies, by becoming a public nuisance, by interfering with the Catholic Church, the United States judiciary, and the Marxist party. Sangers also became politically active and used her writing skills to create writings to promote her way of thinking. Lastly Sangers created, and founded clinics that would change US forever. Sangers ability to pursue her dreams of women…

“For socialists who believe that the working class must organize itself to take power from the capitalists, unions have provided a necessary central focus. Socialists have been active, often essentially so, in the early stages of union organization in the United States” (Weinstein). Unions organized together everyone who was discontented…

In this paper, I will argue that the rise of unionized industrial labor was a vital factor in the drive towards populism in Chile. The structure that stemmed from increased union membership and the growing political participation from union members, primarily in the Socialist and Communist Party, created a political machine that had the ability to throw backing towards progressive candidates, influencing elections and bolstering labor-friendly politicians. This would lead to many of the issues…

the CIA played a significant role in Chile before and after September 11th, 1973, by destabilizing Salvador Allende’s government while propping up a military government under the rule of General Augusto Pinochet. In order to identify the reasons behind the CIA’s motivation in engineer the coup along with the repercussions it produced, retracing significant incidents before and after the military overthrow will unveil the following events that occurred in Chile. Therefore, Allende’s previous…

Chile, a South American nation covering 292,258 square miles, borders Argentina to the east, Peru and Bolivia to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. During the time of the Cold War, Chile faced many challenges politically and economically due to the change in systems of government. Chile started as a presidential republic then shifted to a communist based society. Because the types of government have very contrasting viewpoints, the economy suffered through the shift. Before the era of…

place may look like it's needed. But the question is it for better or worse? In 1973 Chile was overflowing with economic, social, and political problems. In response, they replace the democratic elected president Salvador Allende with General Augusto Pinochet. During his ruling he changed many aspects of the Chilean society. However, before acknowledging whether Pinochet was able to stop the flood of problems Chile faced, it is necessary to find out who or what caused the problems in the first…