Tomás Moulian : itinerario de un intelectual chileno

Abstract

Resumen: En esta entrevista, Tomás Moulian, referencia ineludible del pensamiento crítico chileno, brinda un panorama de su historia personal y el recorrido político intelectual que transitó a la par de la realidad de su país. Las primeras lecturas, los autores que lo marcaron en su juventud, sus primeros pasos en la militancia y todo el proceso de formación, acceso al poder y derrocamiento del gobierno de la Unidad Popular. Luego, el período de la larga dictadura pinochetista, donde desarrolla una parte fundamental de su obra teórica. En pleno período de transición a la democracia, señala el alto precio de las concesiones otorgadas para llevar a cabo este proceso. De modo reflexivo, sin dogmatismos, Moulian utiliza el estudio de la historia política de Chile como medio para interpelar e influir en el presente, siguiendo la tradición de los intelectuales críticos comprometidos con su tiempo. Abstract: In this journal, Tomás Moulian, inevitable reference of Chilean critical thinking, offers an outlook of his personal history, and the political and intellectual path that he took along with the situation going on in his country. The first books that he read, the writers that marked him in his youth, his first steps in militancy and his whole process of training, access to power and overthrowing the government of the Unidad Popular. Then the period of the long dictatorship of Pinochet, during which he develops a significant part of his theoretical work. Just during the transition to democracy, he points out the high costs of the concessions granted in order to carry out such process. Insightfully, without dogmatism, Moulian utilizes the study of Chile’s political history as a means for questioning and influencing the present, following the tradition of critical intellectuals committed to their times.