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The Road to Socialism of the Unidad Popular

In: The Unidad Popular and the Pinochet Dictatorship

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  • Patricio Meller

    (University of Chile)

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For most of the nineteenth century, Chile’s economy was fundamentally agricultural. Nearly 80 per cent of the population lived in rural areas before 1880, and even as late as 1930 the rural population was greater than the urban. In agriculture the latifundio or estate system predominated, with social relations of a semi-medieval type: on one side of the fence, there was the lord of the manor or latifundista, known as the ‘patrón’, and on the other, the tenants or peasants. The latifundista provided his tenants with a hut and a bit of land, and protected them and looked after them in old age or when they got sick. For their part, the tenants obeyed and revered their ‘patrón’; they lived and died on the land.1 Their standard of living was quite precarious, and they were isolated from urban, cultural, educational and political life; this situation lasted until well into the twentieth century.

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  • Patricio Meller, 2000. "The Road to Socialism of the Unidad Popular," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Unidad Popular and the Pinochet Dictatorship, chapter 1, pages 1-60, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52395-1_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523951_1
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