Aende was elected by a very slim margin. He only won by one point three % of the popular vote. As a result, he didn't have majority support for the structural changes that he wanted to make in chilean society. The state is now in charge of running the most important industries in the country and they have no experience doing this. And not only do they not have experience doing this, they don't have qualified, or enough qualified, managers to put in the factories.
Paris Marx is joined by Eden Medina to discuss Project Cybersyn, a technological system created by Chile’s socialist government in the 1970s to manage production, and what it can teach us about political technology and innovation outside the Global North.
Eden Medina is the author of “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile.” She’s also an associate professor at MIT and the Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Follow Eden on Twitter as @edenmedina.
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