The
disintegration of democracy as a political system also signifies, for the West,
the disappearance of the State as a model of political organization, from the
European Renaissance to our contemporary postmodernity. What originated from
Spanish politics at the end of the 14th century, beyond the model of
city-states from ancient Greece and the Renaissance Italian peninsula, is
fading away today in the hands of Protestant hegemony, of Anglo-Saxon
genealogy, and American abbreviation.
Democracy, as
we know it postmodernity, is mortally wounded because it is incapable of
regeneration. Apart from mirages, it is an absolutely necrotic state entity.
There is no State in the West capable of making it survive against the
emergency and hegemonic power of the People's Republic of China. On the other
hand, friends of commerce want consumers, not democrats. In other words, all
doors are closing on the democracy we have known. Totalitarianism now has a
planetary face.
I might be
asked, or even demanded, a form of political management alternative. "What
form of government do you prefer?" they will say to me, assuming the
failure of democracy. It so happens that this question should be directed at a
hedonist, a utopian, or an idealist, but not me, as I am none of these three
irresponsible forms incompatible with reality.
A system of government must be situated and carved within the State, as a political container in which any forms of governing are institutionalized. But the forms of governing must be ...
