Party of Social Democracy (Chile) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Party of Social Democracy of Chile (Spanish: Partido Social Democracia de Chile (PSD), until August 1973 Radical Left Party (Partido de Izquierda Radical) was a Chilean political party of centre-left orientation, formed by dissident Radicals in 1971. In its XXV Congress that took place from 31 July to 5 August 1971, the Radical Party confirmed the left-wing line it had taken already in 1967. The congress declared that the Radicals discard bourgeois democracy as an instrument of capitalist domination and the Radical Party is now a socialist party, that subscribes to class struggle and historical materialism. Diquieted by the Marxist influence, on 3 August, the Senators Bossay, Baltra, Acuna, Juliet and Aguirre and deputies Ibanez, Magalahes, Naudon, Basso, Clavel, Sharpe and Munoz Barra left the Radical Party. They founded a new party, more moderate party of radicals, paradoxically called Partido de Izquierda Radical - Party of Radical Left. The new party initially remained part of the Unidad Popular.