Libertarian utopia in Chile, nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Abstract

This article claims for today’s Chile the ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity as utopias, capable to transform the unacceptable of the present moment vindicating waking dreams and horizons of hope. It notes that not all utopia is liberating, calling for a Copernican revolution in politics, rescues egalitarian dreams of the nineteenth-century Chile, and declares that the humanist experiences of utopianism have tended to be undervalued. It concludes with a critique to the idolatry of market and consigning this period in the history of Chile as homologous to the Parliamentary Republic.