Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile)
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Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria
Revolutionary Left Movement |
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| Founder | Miguel Enríquez |
| Founded | August 15, 1965 |
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Marxism–Leninism Communism Scientific socialism Guevarism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | People's Democratic Movement (1983-1987) |
| Colours | Black, red and white |
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| http://mir-chile.cl/ | |
The Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) (Spanish Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria) is a Chilean political organization and former far-left guerrilla organization founded on October 12, 1965. At its height in 1973, the MIR numbered about 10,000 members and associates. The group emerged from various student organizations, mainly from University of Concepción (led by Miguel Enríquez), that had originally been active in the youth organization of the Socialist Party. They established a base of support among the trade unions and shantytowns of Concepción, Santiago, and other main cities; from Puerto Montt in the South of Chile, to Northern Arica. Andrés Pascal Allende, a nephew of Salvador Allende, president of Chile from 1970 to 1973, was one of its early leaders. Miguel Enríquez Espinosa was the General Secretary of the party from 1967 until his assassination in 1974 by the DINA.
Although it distinguished itself with spectacular direct and military actions particularly during the Resistance to the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat, MIR manifestly rejected terrorism as a form of political or military struggle (see below on the assassination of Edmundo Pérez Zujovic by the VOP).
The Sino-Soviet ideological dispute, the Soviet Union's repressive interventions in Czechoslovakia and other Warsaw Pact countries, the presence of the Cuban Revolution in Latin America, and the emergent global student movement inspired in the humanist socialism of the Frankfurt School and the New Left (by the time of the early opposition to the Vietnam War) were the main ideological issues that the traditional Chilean left (the Socialist Party and the Communist Party) had to deal with amid their relative political stagnation in the beginning of the 1960s.
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