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organizing anti-Allende compaign and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) finaced striking truck drivers, petty shopkeepers and taxi drivers. The television network and the radio became the propaganda machinery of the United States spcading rumour that Allendc would create a dictatorship like Castro's. The author has collected ample evidence to support his view from authentic sources such as testimonies and diaries of eminent personalities like Michael Harrington, chairman of the Socialist Party of America, and Philip Agee, William F Golby and Frederick Dixon Devis, the cx-GIA officials, as well as the statements of Kissinger and Gcnecn, the director of I T T
Besides, Seshadri has made a very pertinent observation regarding the transformation of state apparatus and military organization. Mere transfer of state power, he says. from the control of the bourgeoisie to the leaders of a popularly elected govermcnt is not enough because the disgruntled reactionary forces will not allow the government to bring about any radical change that would affect their interest. Hence the need to smash the state apparatus and proletarianize the army. This is the lesson that Marx drew from the failure of the Paris Commune: "The next French Revolution will no longer attempt to tranfer the bureaucratic-military apparatus from one hand to another, but to smash it, and this is the precondition for every people's revolution on the continmcnt."
VIRENDRA K ROY