"Only in the people we trust": The moral structure of the Chilean urban poor's radical political discourse in the Partido Igualdad Sólo en el pueblo confiamos: La estructura moral del discurso político radical de los pobladores en el Partido Igualdad

Abstract

© 2019 Universidad de Santiago de Chile. All Rights Reserved.In the present article, the structure of the radical political discourse of the Chilean squatters is analyzed through the case of the Partido Igualdad. The hypothesis that guides the article is that the discourse of the party has a populist logic centered on the signifier "the people" and anti-elitist elements. Although this structure coincides with contemporary literature about populism, the signifier "the people" would be limited by two other signifiers: "shared suffering" and "dignity", which restricts their possibilities of articulation.