{"id":278,"date":"2018-04-23T06:23:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T10:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/?p=278"},"modified":"2018-04-23T06:23:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T10:23:37","slug":"gramscian-allende","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/fifth-blog\/gramscian-allende\/","title":{"rendered":"Gramscian Allende"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout Debray\u2019s interview with Allende it was made clear that he questioned the legitimacy of Allende\u2019s strategy, especially as an \u201crevolutionary\u201d within the institutional framework. I found Allende\u2019s ideals very Gramscian. Similar to critiques that we\u2019ve discussed on Gramsci, Allende\u2019s tactics, in the same way <\/span>worked within the framework of hegemony in order to create counter hegemony. Though this revolutionary process is unique, can we consider the idea of a counter hegemony to actually be revolutionary in nature? Using civil society as the most powerful tool in creating consensus and capturing the state, like Gramsci, Allende\u2019s tactics are restricted to the confines of the established institutions. But at what point do we consider Allende\u2019s methods to be reform rather than revolution? Though Allende claims revolution is simply, \u201cthe transfer of power from a minority class to a majority class,\u201d it is hard to call methods which derive within the framework of the oppressive powers very revolutionary at all. First, <\/span>As Debray questions Allende, \u201cDon\u2019t you feel that you are gradually becoming institutionalized?\u201d And then <\/span>As Debray claims, \u201cit has acted within the established institutional framework, and it can therefore be said that what there has been to date is reform.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

However, I\u2019m hardly convinced that democracy was part of Allende\u2019s long term plans. As he responds, \u201cI believe we have used those which open the road to revolution…All the measures we have adopted are measures which lead to the revolution.\u201d In this way, I think that Allende didn\u2019t exactly care about democracy or even creating a democratic popular Government but rather he was interested in utilizing the democratic process as a stepping stone in which to open the door, unlock the gate to a revolution and eventual socialism. Sure Allende may have been attracted to the allure of being revolutionary by unique, peaceful, and democratic tactics, but how much revolutionary change could he have expected to create working within the same institutional framework as his opposition? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout Debray\u2019s interview with Allende it was made clear that he questioned the legitimacy of Allende\u2019s strategy, especially as an \u201crevolutionary\u201d within the institutional framework. I found Allende\u2019s ideals very Gramscian. Similar to critiques that we\u2019ve discussed on Gramsci, Allende\u2019s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fifth-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}