Emancipación social, igualdad y discurso antioligárquico : Malaquías concha y su visión de la democracia en Chile

Abstract

This article examines Malaquías Concha's conceptualization of democracy at the end of the 19th century. The most relevant public intellectual of the Democratic Party contributed to the questioning of the liberal discourse with his anti-oligarchic critique that repositioned the class content of democracy and the deployment of new conceptual referents that singled out the democratic discourse of the new political party, among which where the notions of equality, labor movement, social rights, the welfare state, and social emancipation.