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Titre Le MIR, la révolution et ses classes sociales dans le Chili des années 1960
Auteur Eugénia Palieraki
Mir@bel Revue Actuel Marx
Numéro no 58, octobre 2015 Histoire et luttes de classes
Rubrique / Thématique
Dossier : Histoire et luttes de classes
Page 46-60
Résumé anglais
MIR, the revolution and its social classes in Chile in the 1960s
This paper focuses on the years preceding Salvador Allende's Popular Unity in Chile (1970-1973) and, more precisely, on the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR). Since 1969, this Marxist revolutionary group had actively participated in the class struggle in Chile. However its political and social activism was not oriented towards the working class, but instead towards marginalized social sectors (inhabitants of informal settlements and landless rural workers). The paper thus seeks to elucidate the process which led the MIR to invest social sectors that should have been considered as “unorthodox,” from a Marxist organization's point of view. More generally, the analysis of a political experience taking place in a country where the working class was not as coherent or as massive as it was in 20th Century Western Europe and the United States aims at “deprovincializing” history and at using the concepts of “class” and “class struggle” in a manner which distances them from their potentially economicist and sociologizing implications.
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