Resumen

GUERRERO ANTEQUERA, Manuel. Exorcising the Social Movements in Neoliberal Chile. Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2006, vol.12, n.2, pp.147-156. ISSN 20030507.

This article attempts to understand the process by way of which social discipline has been imposed in Chile since the 1973 coup up to the present. Evidently, the first instrument was the brutal repression that followed the coup and that characterized the entire Pinochet period. Nevertheless, once consolidated, the dictatorship sought to create the basis for a new hegemony. The popular social fabric inherited by the dictatorship is disarticulated on the basis of State terror, but there is also an effort to provide a new articulation in which the market is offered as the instrument for an articulation which emphasizes a new ‘liberty’, the right to consume. The author argues that once the dictatorship is overthrown, the democracy which replaced it was faced with a series of active social movements that had contributed to the fall of Pinochet. Once the transition had been successfully accomplished, these movements began to be considered deviant and were subjected to policies of control in many ways more effective that those of the dictatorship.

Palabras clave : Chile; Social Movements; Neoliberalism; Social Control; Dictatorship; Democracy.