El concepto de democracia en la renovación socialista chilena en el exilio

The coup d’etat in Chile in 1973, although it put an end to the Popular Unity government, also meant the beginning of various political-intellectual processes, especially within the field of action of the left. An important sector of the left traveled an intellectual path known as “socialist renewal” in exile and whose central axis was a resignification of the concept of democracy. This article seeks to shed light on the reevaluations and theoretical and political displacements contained in the concept of democracy sustained by the socialist renewal and the disputes that said resignification generated between the different versions of the Chilean left between 1973 and 1989. This analysis will identify the political reconfiguration of Chilean socialism in dialogue with the intellectual scenario of exile.