{"id":7633,"date":"2016-05-07T20:39:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=7633"},"modified":"2022-01-18T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T10:46:00","slug":"historic-compromises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/historic-compromises\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic compromises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the coup in Chile in 1973 which overthrew the democratically-elected&nbsp;administration of Salvador Allende (and which killed him and many others), the Eurocommunist left in Western Europe spoke of the need to have a grand &#8220;historic compromise&#8221; before entering Government: enjoining the centre and centre-right to support a coalition of national unity, so as to preclude, or at least inhibit, the right from undermining an elected government of the left. &nbsp;One of the ironies of history was that it was the left in government &#8211; the communist regimes of Eastern Europe &#8211; which were forced to forge such grand compromises, by conducting negotiations and sometimes forming coalitions (albeit, short-lived) with their non-communist opponents in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and even Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the coup in Chile in 1973 which overthrew the democratically-elected&nbsp;administration of Salvador Allende (and which killed him and many others), the Eurocommunist left in Western Europe spoke of the need to have a grand &#8220;historic compromise&#8221; before entering Government: enjoining the centre and centre-right to support a coalition of national unity, so as to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,35,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-communism","category-history","category-politics","p1","y2016","m05","d07","h20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10426,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633\/revisions\/10426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}