3.5 million people marched against neoliberalism in Chile just three days ago

You heard about it, right? It was on all the news.

According to the organisers, around 2 million marched in Santiago alone, and the national figure was around 3.5 million people.

A two-day “Feminist General Strike” was organised for 8-9 March by the 8M Feminist Coordination committee. The call is in particular against state terrorism. Women are on the frontline of the rebellion initiated in October, both physically and in advancing far-reaching demands for social rights, and against violence and the impunity of state forces.

There was "only" 800,000 people, by government count, in Santiago.
According to NBC this is scary and unwanted.
According to the Chilean people, well they have other ideas.

Two-thirds of Chileans believe protests should continue, according to a recent poll by CADEM, a respected polling company. President Sebastian Pinera's approval rating is 12 percent.

The government has been rolling out incremental reforms for pensions, wages, healthcare and other issues, but they have fallen far short of social movement and protester demands for system change.

Pinera's government has also been pushing the National Congress to pass a bill to permit military deployment to protect "critical infrastructure".

Wait, you didn't hear about this? That's strange, because you heard about protests in Venezuela that weren't even a fraction of the size.

Many of those demonstrations — clearly newsworthy due to their enormous size, composition, and motives — were and continue to be ignored by prominent English language news outlets, essentially creating a media blackout of these movements.

This trend has been particularly magnified in Latin American countries whose current governments are closely allied with the United States, with Colombia, in particular, standing out...

In contrast, U.S.-supported right-wing movements attempting to topple socialist governments like those in Venezuela and Bolivia have received a great deal of coverage and open support from both the media and the political class.
...Of the recent protests that have taken place in Colombia, the strikes led by Colombian teachers and one of the main teachers’ unions in the country — the Colombian Federation of Education Workers (Fecode) — have received almost no coverage in English-language media. The Fecode-led strikes revolve not around demands for better wages or increased funding for public education but around the slew of death threats and recent murders that have targeted Colombia’s education workers.

Though the fact that Colombian teachers are protesting in defense of their very lives is clearly newsworthy, adding to the importance of the demonstrations is the fact that these murders and death threats are closely tied to Colombia’s current government led by President Iván Duque. Duque and his political allies have incited violence against the country’s teachers, and those affiliated with Fecode in particular. The president’s political party, the Democratic Center, have stepped up their rhetoric towards education workers, asserting that teachers’ unions, namely Fecode, “must disappear” while some Democratic Center politicians have moved to criminalize teacher protests and strikes and fire any teachers who make political statements deemed non-essential to the subject they teach.

Surely you've heard about these brave teachers literally fighting for their lives against a murderous right-wing government.
No? Really? That's curious.

You absolutely had to have heard about Blackrock, the Wall Street finance firm that was heavily involved in the post-2008 bailouts.
It seems that they are involved in France's anti-neoliberalism protests.

The video shows footprints in blood-red paint tracked by militant protesters across BlackRock’s French headquarters. Documents litter the floors. On the walls, black spray-painted graffiti denounces the company as “criminal.”

Just a few months ago, BlackRock, the U.S. money-management giant, was barely known to the general public in France. But as President Emmanuel Macron presses ahead with a controversial campaign to overhaul the French economy, the company has become a favorite target for growing anticapitalist sentiment.

Protesters claim BlackRock has tried to influence — and stands to profit from — Mr. Macron’s overhaul of the nation’s pension system. They point to cordial meetings between Mr. Macron and Laurence D. Fink, the founder and chief executive of BlackRock. And they fear the huge Wall Street firm — its $7 trillion under management is more than twice France’s economic output — is working behind the scenes to pick apart the country’s system of social protections.

The protests escalated with the action on Monday morning, when environmental activists who allege French workers’ pensions could be directed by BlackRock stormed the company’s offices.

It certainly seems strange that you haven't heard of this.
I wonder why.

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Steven D's picture

now, thanks to you. From corporate media, not so much.

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"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott

His theory was that Capitalism was a step to Socialism. Highly developed nations would reach a state where the people demand Socialism. Russia and China were unexpected experiments, as they were both underdeveloped nations at the time of their revolutions. Both had significant problems developing. Each has found a solution. China is using market mechanisms to economically develop but is still essentially Socialist. Russia dissolved the Soviet Union, but with President Putin restoring the economy they have moved to Bernie's Democratic Socialism. Every issue of Bernie's Socialism is the current policy of Russia, health care, education, etc. The one factor that Marx perhaps didn't see is that a highly developed Capitalist state would grow an immensely wealthy establishment that would fight the transition with everything they have. But still, the transition is inevitable.

Two of the most important historical figures in the transition to Socialism are Marx and Reagan. Reagan's experiment in the US proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Capitalism fails the people of a country. In median income per family corrected for inflation we are almost exactly where we were in 1970, except that we have two adults working, and a massively higher GDP. You have been screwed. The younger generation is particularly feeling it.

If we look at the polls for Bernie we see huge support for Socialism with the younger voters, that is, under 45. Older voters grew up in the 50s and 60s when we had the remnants of FDR's democratic socialism. They then mistakenly believe that Capitalism actually works. Meanwhile, their voting behaviour is screwing the next two generations. "Thanks grandpa for the climate Crisis and Capitalism."

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Capitalism has always been the rule of the people by the oligarchs. You only have two choices, eliminate them or restrict their power.