Chile actual: El proyecto político de la concertación

Abstract

This paper examines the current stage of the project of the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia and the challenges that it has to face. Following a text of Marx, it suggests that the governments of the Concertación have promoted an extensive process of modernization whose consequences, however, the official coalition is unable to interpret. The Concertación has made the history of the last twenty years but it did not know the history that made. As a consequence of the change in the material conditions of the existence, it has taken place cultural transformations in numerous dimensions of the collective life that are now necessary to deal with. These changes range from the weakening of the communitarian forms to the new equilibrium between democratic politics and policy making.