Article
French
ID: <
10.4000/conflits.18639>
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DOI: <
10.4000/conflits.18639>
Abstract
The paper analyzes the effects on activism of processes of radicalization, in the case of the members of the Chilean Communist Party from the late 1980s. We show that the adoption of an insurrectionary strategy under the authoritarian regime led to the weakening of partisan influence on the militant body and to the formation of a new generation of activists at the peak of the antidictatorial mobilization (1983-86). Taking the form of a crisis of militant vocations, the normalization started with the democratic transition (1988-89) forced the members of this generation to the painful reconstruction of their partisan attachment. The study of individual trajectories shows how these activists trained in revolutionary violence are brought to standardizing their practices in the new democracy, paradoxically unleashing some radical practices, in a background of transformation of the party as part of the opposition to the new democratic authorities.