2023-06-11 03:01:00
Democracies were always contradictory and had different names. In fact, except for the Islamic theocracies, the rest of the world calls itself democratic. With different names: parliamentary, organic, popular, monarchical, etc., in all cases it is confirmed that from its Greek origin democracy is constituted by a Power that ultimately intervenes with its force in society.
It is Kratos, in the etymology of the term, which indicates that there is always an external force, a violence that is imposed with no other foundation than to impose obedience.
For this reason, there never existed a pure democracy, without aporias, an absolute democracy that was not contaminated with certain inextricable violence that shows that in the democratic system not everything is democratic. Always, with different intensity and different names, depending on the country, there are violent exceptions to the democratic rule.
Contemporary capitalism, in its neoliberal mode, has maximized these exceptions to the democratic rule. Its deployment appropriates in a circular and repetitive way all the confines of human reality, including some (not all) intimate areas of speaking, mortal and sexual beings.
With democracy so intervened and placed by Capital, it would be worth not defending it anymore, and entering a sort of exodus, privileging personal life and being indifferent to politics and indulging in various explorations of one’s own existence.
But this position is catastrophic, indifference to politics eventually leads to a renunciation of desire. If there is something subversive in desire, it is not being satisfied with “what is”, nor waiting for a better future. The authentic transformation arises from working with what is at the starting point to take it to another place. Thanks to the fact that democracy cannot be completely closed, except in the state of total exception of the Dictatorship, the commitment to a transformative project can take place.
Currently, capitalism has achieved worldwide the appropriation of political, social and subjective reality. It is regarding the presence of a new neo-fascism that would try to generate its own destruction within democracy itself.
Today the greatest political imperative is to stop the ultra-right in its neoliberal acceleration. The candidates in dance must be proposed for their ability to put a handbrake on this civilizing change proposed by the zombie far-rights.
Of course, the right-ultra-right cannot be stopped with more right, no matter how lukewarm and moderate it may seem.
Rather, now more than ever it is a question of proposing a great democratic project where different militant praxis of self-government and popular sovereignty can exist within it.
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