From ‘laboratory’ to ‘paradise’: 40 years of neoliberalism in Chile

Juan Pablo Rodríguez

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32108-6_5

From ‘laboratory’ to ‘paradise’: 40 years of neoliberalism in Chile

Juan Pablo Rodríguez^*

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School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies

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The chapter offers a brief and much-needed introduction to the politics of neoliberalism in Chile. After suggesting why the overthrow of the Popular Unity/Allende government by the military coup and subsequent Pinochet’s dictatorship provided especially propitious conditions for the aggressive imposition of neoliberalism in Chile, the chapter explores the process of neoliberalisation in Chile in relation to the return of civil government and its debilitating effects on the popular sector’s capacity for mobilisation. Rodríguez concludes analysing the main legacies of the Pinochet era, arguing that the return to a democratic regime provided a new ideological framework for legitimising and reproducing neoliberal policies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Resisting Neoliberal Capitalism in Chile
Subtitle of host publication	The Possibility of Social Critique1
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	109-117
Number of pages	9
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-32108-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-32107-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32108-6_5
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 19 Dec 2019

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Name	Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
ISSN (Print)	2524-7123
ISSN (Electronic)	2524-7131

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