Pinochet’s coup was not originally a neoliberal project

Evidence

After the military coup in September 1973, it took about two years before the neoliberal faction ascended to positions of authority, which enabled technocrats to advance their far-reaching reorganization program. Some analysts have proposed that the insurrection against Allende was motivated by a prior decision to establish a new type of institutional order in the country. That is far from true. The military coup was based on a coalition of forces, aligned against the Popular Unity government (Martínez and Díaz 1996). Initially, the insurrection only determined that the future of the country would be decided by some combination of different forces represented in the junta. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1568

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the common teleological narrative that the 1973 coup was designed to install neoliberalism; connects to the broader historiography literature on Chile’s ‘Chicago Boys’. — connects to: The 1973 Chilean coup was neoliberalism’s founding anti-democratic moment — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1955