The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile keyword contemporary writing deterministic theories as Marxism offer deterministic theories as Marxism offer materials for an alternative practice of social understanding He argues that globalization cannot be reduced to mere economics or summarized by phrases such as ‘the end of history’ or the ‘westernization of the world’ The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende’s Chile underlines the chronic mismanagement of the economy in the drive to socialism on the back of a minority franchise and elucidates the longstanding politicization of the Chilean armed forces through mere talk of action in the early 1960s to the attempted coup d’etat of 1969 and the coup of 1973