Eso camilla: I see this tension as something that can be resolved, but only if you give popular power the final say in the constitutional structure. We need to find legitimacy outside of that, a new form of authority, which is popular authority. And i think this is the beauty of this crisis, because it's not only a social political crisis, and also a crisis of the system itself.
Dan interviews scholars Aldo Madariaga and Camila Vergara about how Chilean politics have been playing out since the massive popular uprisings that began in October 2019.
Further reading:
jacobinlat.com/2021/06/19/el-neoliberalismo-atenta-contra-la-democracia-2
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/burying-pinochet
jacobinmag.com/2021/06/rene-rojas-interview-democracy-new-constitution-constituent-assembly-plebiscite-left-chile
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