Pinochet’s regime co-opted depoliticized human rights language into its own constitution

Evidence

While key figures in Pinochet’s regime described Marxism as a cancer, human rights, stripped of all relation to political violence, redistribution and revolutionary aspiration, became part of the Christian ‘Western’ heritage within which they wished to position Chile – thus the repeated references in the 1980 constitution to dignity, ‘freedom of conscience’ and human rights. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 371

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the larger argument in this book about how neoliberal regimes and human rights discourse became compatible, resonating with Whyte’s broader thesis that the left’s embrace of human rights aided market absolutism. — connects to: Pinochet’s junta permitted human rights groups while exterminating the left — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 307; Pinochet’s 1980 constitution embedded human-rights language to legitimize a repressive market order — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 366; Neoliberals weaponized human rights language to protect private property and market order — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 76 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals weaponized human rights language to protect private property and market order #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 76
• Chile’s constitution fused Hayekian economics with patriarchal authoritarian concepts #expands (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1593