Change
of power in Chile
As we know socialism is an economic system that is characterized
by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of
the economy. It would consist of an organization of production to directly
satisfy economic demands and people needs. I will discuss about the socialism
in Chile and how it has been developed.
After the crisis of Marxism in 1973 chilean socialism
begins a process of transformation. This brings an ideological change that
makes the political party divides in two in 1979, Almeyda and Renewed. After
this happens in 1990 both parties get together again to be more powerful. The
socialist renewal wants to synthesize between socialism and democracy, in a
published document is explained like this: “helping to create a society where democracy
deepens and expands every day, leading to more fully exercise effective and
popular sovereignty”. This doesn’t
totally abandon the Marxist ideology, but it is not considered as central as
before. It is not necessary to be Marxist to be socialist they said. In 1999
after nearly a decade of democratic transition comes the opportunity for the
social party to power up again. The president Ricardo Lagos was the hope of
people because in that time Chile has the worst rates of income distribution in
the region, but he didn´t make any changes in production, the only thing he did
was to settle a neoliberal economy, triggering the bankruptcy of many small business
and a marked increase in social inequality.
The socialist party was not what the people thought;
it continued the liberal governments as past decades. After their process of
renewal, they were in a process of political transformation and ideological. We
can see the importance of the democracy and also the importance of the modernity
that they wanted to achieve with the transformation of their political
ideology.
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