ABSTRACT
The democratic regime is but one pyramid of power among many in the social field. The Pinochet regime clearly used coercion and force to purge the country of what it saw as undesirables and to maintain its rule against any possible opposition until it was ready to return democracy to the country. The chapter explores the crucial variables are two: cross pressures resulting from the diversity and plethora of interests created by an exchange society, and associated exchange culture. It extends these two variables within a more basic conceptualization of social fields and antifields, and Freedom versus Power. The chapter also explores why the opposite of democracies, totalitarian regimes, should have the most severe violence, why Power kills. This is through the concept of an antifield, an organization with a well-defined hierarchy, command structure, and resulting polarization of interests and expectation.
