Last year, under the combined weight of the pandemic, the resulting economic crises, and conflicts of all types, democracy suffered new losses in its global competition against autocracy. The Autocratic Threat: Two Readings, One Problem However, that agreement-never fully achieved-confronts a new threat today. It was received with hope despite difficult times experienced by many decolonized nations in the Third World at the time. It was accepted, at least formally, by liberal and traditional regimes. The fundamental documents of the Organization of the United Nations, 76 years ago, pick up that fragile but universal democratic consensus. In other words, the idea that those from the bottom can exercise collective auto-governance, electing their authorities, and expressing one’s voice and rights in the public space, has become more popular.
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Nevertheless, with variable and increasing strength, the democratic alternative became globally accepted in the last two centuries. It has been based in the predominance of chieftains and oligarchies, of different founding dogmas, over their populations. Human history has been, in good measure, a tale of autocratic politics. Instead, under its mantle converge domination and emancipation, conflict and consensus, in the governance of man and the administration of things. The politics is not normative-good or bad. Its binding character differentiates political action from family links, -founded in blood ties- social cooperation-based in mutual help-and rationale-mercantile, transactional-of the economy. The frontiers of politics have expanded with time, to regulate the conflicts of class, gender, creed and race, among others. It operates by implementing binding decisions-conforming to rules-capable of being imposed-by force, if necessary-on the members of the community. Politics is that sphere of human action, oriented towards the social handling of conflicts. This resulting tension generates the pursuit to regulate these conflicts, because every society harbors a longing for security, prosperity, and power, that manifests through politics. Their embers coexist under the permanent risk of conflict, between the privileged that want to preserve the status quo and the persecuted that want to change it. Will democracy manage to endure?Īll human communities contain differences-of tiers, ideas, and values-and inequalities-of resources, rights, and power-between those that form them.
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Democracy guarantees freedom but today is once more under attack. (Translated by: Alex Elgnady) | Leer en Español Politics are instrumental in the creation of coexistence agreements.