Democracy is a
term that denotes a system of governance. Nothing more. Only when that system
of governance materializes and acts as such—when democracy assumes political
content and realization—can we then ascertain the type of democracy in question
and what constitutes the execution of that system of governance called
"democracy."
Every system
of governance among human beings, whether democratic or not, is a political
system. Politics is the organization of power, the administration of freedom,
within a State among its members, and in relation to other States.
In our times,
in most parts of the West, this organization of political power within the
State—what we currently term "democracy"—is influenced by a
determinant content that functions as a genuine solvent of democracy itself.
This tumor is called postmodernity and has very specific and potent components,
to which I will refer shortly. The contents of postmodernity are the primary
dissolvers and emulsifiers of the so-called democratic systems of governance.
They are its cancer. In other words, the objectives of postmodernity are the
principal disruptors of modern and democratic States.
This implies that the permeability and tolerance that democracy shows towards postmodernity lead to the decomposition and destruction of ...
