The "cuaderno 8" and the cojuncture

The “cuaderno 8” is a text of the sociology Juan Carlos Marín, which is focused on collecting elements, particularly from Lenin's political theory, in order to constitute these theoretical coordinates as tools for the analysis of modern society. In this sense, it is possible to consider that its reading allows to find with particular reflections regarding the situation that Chilean society is going through, as well as to raise some questions.

The first two theoretical coordinates that we can consider are, on the one hand, the idea that classes or social fractions are transformating with the movement of the confrontations that make up the class struggle, while on the other hand, these confrontations always express the development of the class struggle in its three fields: the field of political struggle where the regime and the people confront each other, where the latter is understood as the set of those social fractions excluded from power; the field of social struggle where different social fractions face each other for certain economic goods; and the field of theoretical struggle, where different political orientations face each other (Marín, 2009).

If we take these two coordinates into account, it is possible to read the national situation in a more complex movement than is generally processed. Thus, for example, the increase in unemployment, as well as the enactment of the employment protection law, express part of the decomposition of the working class in the context of the current economic crisis, which as an expression of the development of the class struggle, again exposes the defeat of the working class and its positions, due to its inability to curb the regime's policy in the field of political struggle, and the power of the bussinesmen in the social struggle.

Even so, these theoretical coordinates proposed by the Argentine sociologist, open the question about the current composition of the Chilean regime, due to which a sector that supposed to be part of the Chilean regime, the parties of the old "concertation", have been added by legislation of laws that go against sectors of the rentier bourgeoisie. Is this expression of a break in the transitional regime and a radicalization of the parties that make up the so-called democratic convergence?

References:

Marín, Juan Carlos. Cuaderno 8. Ediciones PICASO (Programa de Investigaciones sobre Cambio Social, Instituto Gino Germani, FCS, UBA). 2009