Progressives and revolutionaries: the Popular Action Front and the Chilean Road to Socialism, 1956-1967

The present work examines the development of the Popular Action Front (FRAP), emphasizing the concept of democracy and its relation with the concept of revolution in the political project of the Chilean Left. Although we acknowledge the importance that the concept of revolution had for the two most important left-wing parties at the time, the Communist Party and the Socialist Party, we aim to show how the FRAP's discourse, in its origins, is based mainly on a democratic and progressive discourse, although not openly revolutionary, having the latter a later appearance in the leftist coalition's project.