THE DISCOURSE OF SOCIAL ORDER IN THE EARLY DICTATORSHIP: THE PRODUCTION OF THE MEMORANDUM WITH THE OBJECTIVES OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION (1973)

Abstract

The aim of this piece of work is to analyze the production of an early document in the civic-military dictatorship. It is about Goals and/or Objectives of the New Political Constitution of the Republic. The constitutionalist committee was in charge of the writing. The product was handed to the government council in November 1973. The analysis of this document consists of verifying its conditions of possibility, analyzing the speech included in it and acknowledging discursive continuities in subsequent official documents. It is concluded that the analyzed discourse expresses a potential social order in two senses. The first is that the analyzed discourse represents a political project that denies the previous social order and is oriented towards the achievement of hegemony. The second sense is that this political project constructs an object/population which unfolds through the territory that is confined by the frontiers of the Chilean State.