Tiempos de derrota. Revolución y democracia en el debate intelectual de izquierdas latinoamericano.

The purpose of this article is to revise the different ways in which the Latin American intellectual field has reflected upon the theoretical problems of revolution and democracy during the long period of defeats that was inaugurated with the coup d'état in Chile in 1973 and extended until the explosion of anti-neoliberal struggles at the end of this century. The hypothesis of this article states that this is an era in which such intellectual field experimented a slow but steady process in which the imaginary of the revolution gave way to a substantial democracy, and this, in turn, to a castrated and routine democracy.