The democracy issue in the within the framework of political theory: the battle between the liberal sham an the emancipatory perspective of marxist tradition / A questão da democracia no quadro da teoria política: a peleja entre os simulacros liberais e a perspectiva emancipatória da tradição marxista.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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The social changes caused by the new stage of capitals accumulation, with the expansion of markets logic in increasingly large areas of human life (causing macroeconomic impacts that accentuate poverty, social inequality and economic inequity, causing mass unemployment, impoverishment and social exclusion in both nationally and internationally), faced by the disrepute of socialist and revolutionarys projects after the collapse of the Soviet experience, conform, up in the current historical epoch , a scenario political and ídeo-cultural radically challenging the social forces commited to overcoming this order. To face its structural crisis, the capital increasingly requires the removal of obstacles placed by the extension (albeit incomplete and domesticated) of democratic procedures to their unrestricted movement of recovery: if, on the one hand, the lack of investment in the expansion of democratic practices that go beyond the limits of formal election and institutionality (which, despite its importance, does not cease to be insufficient) tends to increasingly undermine the political-organizational ability of subaltern classes; on the other hand, democracy becomes increasingly to appear, as rhetoric, in every speeche and in all current policies (even in the most conservative and exclusionary formulations), hiding the actual limiter, minimalist and procedural content assigned to this issue. Considering this scenario, this present study aims to rescue and elucidate the emancipatory perspective of democracy within the classical Marxist tradition, trying to explain their radical distinction of the liberal values of the current hegemonic proposals, and upholding the assumption that democracy does not come from a principle or a project, not even represent a value in itself to a particular social class, but it is an instrument for achieving the interests of classes, whose links to democracy are amended in line with the nature of those interests. This premise tries to break with the constant polarization anti-dialectic (and anti-historical) that treats the democratic issue through its disqualification or its fetishization, present in the current proposals for transformation and transition to socialism advocated by the most diverse sectors of the critical movement, but that ultimately food, paradoxically, the conservative reaction to annul the very question of democracy and its ownership and redefinition by liberal values.

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comunismo political theory teoria política marxism servico social marxismo democracia liberalismo democracy liberalism

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