Chile’s 1979 Seven Modernizations privatized social reproduction as a private responsibility

Evidence

Piñera was central to the ‘Seven Modernizations’, which launched in 1979 to fundamentally recast political expectations by reconstituting social reproduction as a private responsibility. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 354

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the ‘Seven Modernizations’ as the original blueprint for the care-economy privatization debates today — how welfare was reframed as private family duty.
• XREF: connects to: Chile’s future pension privatizer argued markets betrayed Christian human dignity — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 352; Constitutional social rights in Pinochet’s Chile empowered private enterprise over state provision. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 369; Capitalism functions by redirecting social reproduction toward its own ends — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 347 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Constitutional social rights in Pinochet’s Chile empowered private enterprise over state provision. #corroborates (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 369
• Capitalism functions by redirecting social reproduction toward its own ends #expands (0.85) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 347
• Social reproduction thinking revives domains Marxist base-superstructure theory had reduced away #complicates (0.75)