Allende and the front

[Black Sheep]

Having watched a (rather popular i think) documentary about that period in Chile,i wanna ask:
-What is that strategy with the mass front they used called ?
(collaboration with liberals,reformists etc with radicalization of workers, election of a 'liberal' and 'leftist' (but reformist as fuck) goverment, and constant pressure from organized workers from below, to force reforms/ or to enable workers' unions to seize power)

-What in detail is the critique from marxist leninists ?
(because i know they condemn it).However the 'argument' that such practises lead to authoritarian regimes isnt enough.

+whatever relevant you have to comment.Thanks.

[Charles Xavier]

We do not condemn Allende, we view it a tragedy that he fell. We held much of our hope and aspirations with Allende. But his reconciliation approach towards the social classes lead to his downfall, his unwillingness to stomp out the threats that he faced caused the capitalist class to sabotage and destroy the revolutionary situation. We all hoped on every corner of the world for Allende's rule to be successful. There are many failures. Do not forget this happened during a revolutionary tide all across latin America, Peru's Velasco's military reformist government was in power at the same time.

His failure to grasp the revolutionary situation lead to a counter-revolution lead by the most reactionary forces of the domestic and foreign bourgeoisie to seize power.

[Yehuda Stern]

Allende brought his downfall upon himself; I have absolutely no sympathy for him. I have sympathy for the workers and peasants who put their trust in him, only to later be crushed by Pinochet's counterrevolutionary forces. With a revolutionary leadership, Pinochet would never have had the chance to establish his dictatorship, because such a leadership would never try to reconcile the workers with the capitalist state.