Tomás Moulian Explained

Tomás Moulian
Birth Name:	Tomás Moulian Emparanza
Birth Date:	21 September 1939
Birth Place:	Santiago, Chile
Occupation:	Sociologist, political scientist
Alma Mater:	UCLouvain
Party:	Democratic Revolution (2016–present)
Rector of University ARCIS
Term:	2003–2006
Predecessor:	Pedro Domancic
Successor:	Jorge Arrate

Tomás Moulian Emparanza (born 21 September 1939) is a Chilean political scientist and sociologist. A Guggenheim Fellow^[1] and winner of the National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences,^[2] he is known for being a critic of the socio-economic structure of his country after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Biography

The brother of historian, and uncle of businessman, Tomás Moulian studied sociology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC), and did postgraduate studies at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium and Paris.^[3]

He was director of the sociology schools of his alma mater and of University ARCIS. At the latter he also served as Vice Chancellor for Research, and Rector from 2003 to 2006.^[4] He was deputy director of the Latin American Social Sciences Institute (FLACSO) in Chile (1990–1991), where he also taught from 1974 to 1994. He has been director of the Paulo Freire Institute of Social Training.^[3]

He was a member of the, and during the Popular Unity government he was a member of the MAPU Obrero Campesino.^[5] After the return of democracy he identified himself as an independent close to the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh).^[6] This same party proclaimed him presidential candidate for the 2005 election,^[7] where he finally yielded his selection to the humanist Tomás Hirsch.

Thought

Moulian's works of historical interpretation of the 20th century have been very influential, despite not having the training of a historian. He has published works on the Popular Front, Popular Unity, and political projects of the right. In the same way, his reflections on the process experienced after the end of the Pinochet dictatorship have become prominent.^[8]

His 1997 essay Chile actual: anatomía de un mito – which won the Santiago Municipal Literature Award the following year and which has had several subsequent editions – is well-known.^[8] In this he unveiled the "transvestism" of the political sectors that led the transition towards democracy, who would have allowed the fundamental pillars of the fallen regime to remain.^[9]

Works

• Discusiones entre honorables: las candidaturas presidenciales de la derecha entre 1938 y 1946, Santiago: FLACSO, 1987 (together with)
• La forja de ilusiones: El sistema de partidos, 1932-1973, FLACSO, 1993,
• Crisis de los saberes y espacio universitario, 1995
• Chile actual: anatomía de un mito, Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 1997,
• Conversación interrumpida con Allende, Universidad ARCIS, 1998,
• El consumo me consume, Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 1999,
• Socialismo del siglo XXI: La quinta via, Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2000,
• Ein Sozialismus für das 21. Jahrhundert, Zürich: Rotpunktverlag, 2003,
• En la brecha. Derechos humanos, críticas y alternativas, Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2002,
• De la política letrada a la política analfabeta, Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2004,
• Fracturas: de Pedro Aguirre Cerda a Salvador Allende (1938-1973), Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2006,
• Contradicciones del desarrollo político chileno, 1920-1990, Santiago de Chile: LOM Ediciones, 2009,

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tomás Moulian Emparanza . . 18 April 2018.
2. News: Tomás Moulián: el sociólogo ganador del Premio Nacional de Humanidades . Tomás Moulián: The Sociologist Winner of the National Prize for Humanities . Rodrigo . González M. . . Spanish . 31 August 2015 . 18 April 2018.
3. Web site: Tomás Moulián . . Spanish . 18 April 2018.
4. Web site: Crisis en la Universidad ARCIS: cómo entró y salió el Partido Comunista del negocio de la Educación Superior . Crisis at University ARCIS: How the Community Party Entered and Left the Business of Higher Education . Juan Pablo . Figueroa . CIPER . Spanish . 12 August 2014 . 18 April 2018.
5. News: Los hijos no siempre reconocidos de Tomás Moulian . The Children Not Always Recognized by Tomás Moulian . Eugenio . Tironi . . Spanish . 6 September 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160413174030/http://lanacion.cl/noticias/site/artic/20090905/pags/20090905203825.html . 13 April 2016 . dead . 18 April 2018.
6. News: Tomás Moulian: 'El PC debe apoyar a Marcel Claude en primera vuelta' . Tomás Moulian: 'The PC Should Support Marcel Claude in the First Round' . Alejandra . Carmona López . . Spanish . 23 May 2013 . 18 April 2018.
7. News: Comunistas se alinean con Tomás Moulian . Communists Align with Tomás Moulian . . Spanish . 16 November 2004 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150611051917/http://www.lanacion.cl/noticias/site/artic/20041115/pags/20041115212028.html . 11 June 2015 . dead . 18 April 2018.
8. Book: Stern, Steve J. . Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006 . . 9780822391777 . 190 . 9 April 2010 . 18 April 2018 . Google Books.
9. Web site: La convivencia fracturada (desafección ciudadana, desigualdad y ethos republicano) . Fractured Coexistence (Citizen Disaffection, Inequality and Republican Ethos) . Jaime . Lizama . Le Monde diplomatique Chile . Spanish . 18 April 2018.