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Abstract: Examining the "Penguin Revolution" of 2006, the largest social mobilization in Chile since the return to civilian rule in 1990, I argue that the Chilean student movement reconstituted itself by developing a grassroots “assembliest” logic that while drawing on the legacy of the traditional Left as a critical ideological referent, nonetheless marked a departure from the more hierarchical, ... read morevanguardist organizational forms that characterized the latter. Throughout, I underscore the role of popular culture, particularly punk and hip hop subcultures, as an alternative “circuit of socialization” for this new popular Left. I contend that popular culture, oral tradition, and direct experience form a kind of “organic ideology” that provides the scaffolding for more systematic political critique. In this vein, I argue that the key protagonists in this process are grassroots colectivos that often emerge from these subcultures and are critical in synthesizing this “organic ideology” with elements of radical Left theory to form new forms of political praxis.read less
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