THE BERLIN WALL OF CHILEAN COMMUNISM

Twenty years ago Berlin Wall falled down determinating the end of the cold war. A few months later in Chile the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet was removed and the Concertacion leaded by Patricio Aylwin took the governement.

The end of cold war entailed the defeat of communism and the adoption, almost universally, of the neoliberalism as the political and economical model with variations depending of the country´s culture and history.

Once the comunism fell off around Europe and the Soviet Union was disrupted we could know more details about the repression and injustice of communist regimens through of testimonies like recent nobel prize Hertha Muller who described the hard conditions of life in the Rumania of communist dictatorship Nicolae Ceaucescu.

Today not even the socialist can refuse to admit that their model is obsolete and many of those who where hard apologists of Marx´s postulates are now succesfull transnationals´s managers or even leaders of centre-left governements with wide open economies and politics.

But there are many of them who didn´t understand or simply didn´t want to deny communism´s postulates. That is the case of the chilean communism.

Today chilean communism doesn´t have representation on the parlament. They were oposition during Pinochet´s regimen and they have been oposition during the concertacion ´s period with a only important participation in the labor unions and in a few of city councils ....

Is it true that the binominal system has determinated the communist´s exclution of the parliament but it`s true too that this political party has not been able of making a serious program for returning to the legislature.

Right now exist a controversial "no exclusion pact" between the concertacion and the communists. The pact, even criticized by conservative spanish past president Aznar, may incorporate the commmunism to the parliament. The question here is if they are able to be there.

The communists in the parliament should dedicate to protect the workers from the unfairness derived from laboral flexibility, they should defend worker´s right to colective negociation and to apropriatte salaries , they must estimulate the creation of pymes and the undertaking by poor population, they should guarantee legal competition between pymes and great companies and they specially must avoid the blind defense of labor unions when they strike with not reasons affecting the developement of the country.

The communists who result elected on december have a serious work to do: to demostrate to the chilean society how able they are to fall down their own Berlin Wall twenty years after the original one.