I think democracy is that each party intends to its election manifesto its model of pension reform and citizens to debate and vote in the upcoming elections general accordingly. (Cayo
Lara, Public , 14/02/2011 )
This certainly would be a very democratic view of the nature of social, political, cultural and economic systems that govern our representative. No point is immaterial, as with (increasingly less) often hear sentences that somehow appeal to that which has been called the "end of history." The idea that in the world, having fought the last battle for hegemony, has been (pre) configured to be monolithic on the model of the West, that is "democratic." The idea, of course highly ethnocentric, not only innocent but is loaded with ideology.
is not my intention to enter both alternatives, which of course there are and there-like focus on the model itself. Suppose that in fact the only possible system, not even the most perfect or less imperfect, but THE SOLE , were indeed the democratic-capitalist (western). Even assuming that such socio-economic alternatives were inherently totalitarian socialism (as well as stupid ridiculous), what is it that could make us assume there is no other horizon than the one we are living and can hardly be envisaged as a reasonable ultimate "general welfare"?
of all, in 'our' horizon promise even be a modest total welfare, much less global, it is generally accepted that such is not possible within the current model. However, it is also accepted that there may be 'modest total welfare' in another model, the socialist, yet is associated with pauperism and any manner inconsistent with a minimally democratic government. Freedom is therefore understood as the boundary imposed by the economy. The individual is free to do within dilated and flexible rules, all sorts of things you crave, their only border money you have. Somehow, individual freedoms become monetized and lose their original political content. Hence there are now regarded as something essential man. Coming misunderstood, are taken as an addition to the democratic system and not an indivisible part thereof. Democracy may well be understood as a competition between different options, depending on the results obtained and a number of variables that need not be related to how well it has been 'ruled', you can substitute other options, usually chosen to be the most likely to win, one that guarantees the 'desired' replacement.
Normally, the time interval for the people involved set out in four years. Before you can, if authorized by the Government, mobilize and express their disagreement in order to 'press' on the decisions taken. And so, therefore, set a fabulous border between rulers and ruled.
Cayo
Lara's proposal that the electoral programs are those that mark such important measures for the life of all citizenship is oriented, of course, to the honesty and transparency in a system designed expressly opaque. Sovereignty, however, is well written, emanates 'bottom' of the people. This leads to the following: "We are therefore faced a parliamentary democracy can be said? The first is obvious that such is the latter, it seems more than doubtful. But then what would be a democracy? In recent years convinced skeptics have strengthened their positions, with the latest developments, many people are shaken the pillars on which his conviction settled to live in a pluralistic and (with the normal faults that I supposed) representative.
A decision like that has affected pensions or the latest labor reform would never be approved by the people, to which he had to convince, and largely has convinced himself-that measures Although such "are not like anyone" if they are "necessary." The arguments are fetched, they twist and become ubiquitous, to show everyone the reason for its urgency, and, thus, becomes malleable public opinion. All this game of manipulation and is unpopular in whom they were pleased about the divine and human, whose highest concentration of capital makes them free from the 'free'. And so they, at that time who control the media (directly or indirectly) fund the influencing political conglomerates, with these and other maneuvers, the laws in force in order to mold them to their particular interests. By pure definition, they oppose the so-called "general".
A political regime even minimally permeable to the influence of such groups (publicly known as "pressure" or "lobbies ) in making government decisions would be called, rather, the "minority regime ', ie' oligarchy."
This is how capitalism and democracy to become antithetical concepts effectively. A man is not more free by having a greater accumulation of capital but not be subject to the needs resulting from the lack thereof. Similarly, this accumulation contracts necessarily the accentuation of inequality, dependency linkages (relations of exploitation) are subjected to controlled individuals.
It follows then that democracy and socialism become symmetric concepts, harmonious. Only through the cancellation of the forms of exploitation is possible to imagine a truly representative "democratic" in which individuals are effectively free and in which all viewpoints are represented without the potential alienation intrinsic to the contradictions between the media and production relations of capitalist exploitation system.
Cayo That proposal may seem utopian Lara, almost satirical given the level of 'democracy' that is handled in our society today, it takes a stroke of eloquence. But in this part of the world where it seems that nothing can happen because it's all over, may be brewing great processes of change. Or maybe not, as not to overlook the fact that the most common story is the lack of events that the crystallization process, but one thing is for sure, they have always been accompanied by changes in the critical perception of societies: how to understand and perceive the relationships that surround them and suffering, and their questioning of what is right and wrong.