MAPU Obrero Campesino
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MAPU Worker-Peasant MAPU Obrero Campesino | |
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Founded | March 1973 |
Dissolved | April 1989 |
Split from | Popular Unitary Action Movement |
Headquarters | Santiago de Chile |
Ideology | Revolutionary socialism Christian socialism Marxism-Leninism[citation needed] |
Political position | Left-wing |
The MAPU Obrero Campesino (Spanish abbr. MAPU/OC; MAPU Worker-Peasant) was a leftist political party in Chile that was formed after a split of MAPU in March 1973. It claimed to represent the political legacy of , the principal founder of the original MAPU, who had deceased in May 1972.
The MAPU/OC aimed at forming a "third proletarian party" in Chile, supporting cooperation with the Communist Party of Chile and the Socialist Party. It adhered to the more “moderate”, legalistic tendency of Unidad Popular, like the Communist Party and Radicals. It regarded the formation of the government of Salvador Allende as the principal victory for people and democracy and distanced itself from more extremist left-wing groups like MIR.
It had two ministers in Allende's government (Fernando Flores and ) and a number of other state functionaries were among its ranks.
The MAPU/OC proclaimed that "the Chilean revolution was going through a national democratic phase" and established formal relations with the CPSU and other governing communist parties of the socialist bloc. It also supported the factions that sought a political compromise with the Chilean army and the Christian Democrats.
After the 11 September 1973 coup, the party started to pursue clandestine activities. Its line was to form an alliance of all democratic forces that opposed the dictatorship. The party was more popular among the intellectuals (Tomás Moulián, , ), university students (who in 1976 founded the Unión de Jóvenes Democráticos) and peasants (the leaders of the Confederación Unidad Obrero Campesina).
At the beginning of the 1980s, the party experienced internal ideological conflicts (between “Marxists-Leninists” and “Marxists-Renovators”).
See also[]
- 1973 establishments in Chile
- 1989 disestablishments in Chile
- Catholicism and far-left politics
- Christian socialist organizations
- Defunct political parties in Chile
- Political parties disestablished in 1989
- Political parties established in 1973
- Socialist parties in Chile