Anti-communism, Democracy and Geopolitics by Pinochet

Abstract

This article intend to analyze one of the first works of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, entitled Ensayo sobre um estúdio preliminar de uma geopolítica de Chile en el año de 1965. Character who embodies the Chilean civil-military dictatorship itself, Pinochet was a professor of the Academy of War during the 1960s. This work, resulting from the compilation of notes drawn from his classes, already shows a series of considerations about the growing popular mobilization. Questioning the possibility of democracy as a political system that would enable the State the necessary tools to contain the "communist expansion", Pinochet suggests that the concept of democracy should be modernized, the State should develop a policy to curb excesses from abroad and convoke the Chilean ruling class to create a retaining wall against the spread of communism. All proposals were made even during the government of Eduardo Frei, the time of writing his Ensayo.