This article reconstructs the long debate and the political praxis that has developed at the core of the Chilean left wing since late XIX century until the present day in regards to the advantage and feasibility of the use of elections as a means to materialize popular aspirations. The author reconstructs the rivalry that has opposed “both souls” of the left wing and the social movement: the institutional or gradual against the one that tends to break with political institutions, from the experience of the labourer candidacies in 1882, to the parliamentary and presidential elections of 2013.
Keywords:
Chile, left wing, elections, political history, social movement
Grez Toso, S. (2014). The chilean left-wing and the elections: a historic perspective (1882-2013). Cuadernos De Historia, (40), Pág. 61–93. Retrieved from https://cuadernosdehistoria.uchile.cl./index.php/CDH/article/view/32981
