Sobre la tarea política de construcción de la igualdad social: un abordaje de las ideas de Tocqueville
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2011-08
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La fuerza de las palabras presentes en la introducción
de La Democracia en América predispone al lector a considerar que
la igualdad social de condiciones advendrá por si misma, queriendo
los hombres o no. No obstante, me parece que esta introducción
no debe ser leída independientemente del texto que antecede, ni
de las demás obras de Tocqueville que nos hacen comprender, en
primer lugar, que hay un vínculo directo entre condiciones sociales
y políticas y, en segundo lugar, que este vínculo implica una mutua
determinación. En este sentido, es bastante ilustrativo el análisis de
Tocqueville sobre los procesos de industrialización norteamericano
y de éxodo rural e industrialización en Inglaterra y Irlanda en inicios
del siglo XIX. En ambos casos, el autor observa que el nuevo sistema
industrial produce, además de bienes materiales, dos clases antagónicas
e inalterables que conforman el escenario social y político.
Basado en estos análisis, Tocqueville denuncia las relaciones difíciles
entre el ámbito social y el político. De esta manera, en la jornada
sobre la vigencia del pensamiento de Aléxis de Tocqueville, que nos
remite a pensar el presente a partir de sus ideas, nuestro propósito
será analizar la tensión en la determinación recíproca existente
entre la igualdad de condiciones sociales y la libertad política para,
entonces, discutir el compromiso político (de las instituciones del
estado y de la acción de los ciudadanos) de construir condiciones
sociales que garanticen la libertad y la igualdad como un derecho
común a todos los ciudadanos.
The remarkable words we find in the introduction of Democracy in America induces the reader to the hope that social equality will arrive by itself, independent of men’s will. However, it seems to us that this introduction should not be read independently from the text that comes just before, neither of other Tocqueville’s books which make us understand: in first place, that there is a binding between social conditions and politics; and, in second place, that this binding implies mutual determination. In this sense, it is very illustrative the analysis by Tocqueville of the industrialization process in North-America and the rural exodus accompanying the industrialization in England and Ireland at beginning of the 19th. In both cases, the author observes that the new industrial system produces, apart of material goods, two inalterably opposed classes in the social and political scene. Based on this analysis, Tocqueville denounces those hard relations holding between the social and political extents. Therefore, in the symposium about Alexis de Tocqueville’s ideas nowadays, which press us to think our time using his ideas, our purpose is to analyze the tension lying under the reciprocal determination between equality of social conditions and political freedom. Next, we envisage a discussion over the issue of political commitments (for state institutions and for citizenship action) in order to construct social conditions warranting freedom and equality as a common right for all citizens.
The remarkable words we find in the introduction of Democracy in America induces the reader to the hope that social equality will arrive by itself, independent of men’s will. However, it seems to us that this introduction should not be read independently from the text that comes just before, neither of other Tocqueville’s books which make us understand: in first place, that there is a binding between social conditions and politics; and, in second place, that this binding implies mutual determination. In this sense, it is very illustrative the analysis by Tocqueville of the industrialization process in North-America and the rural exodus accompanying the industrialization in England and Ireland at beginning of the 19th. In both cases, the author observes that the new industrial system produces, apart of material goods, two inalterably opposed classes in the social and political scene. Based on this analysis, Tocqueville denounces those hard relations holding between the social and political extents. Therefore, in the symposium about Alexis de Tocqueville’s ideas nowadays, which press us to think our time using his ideas, our purpose is to analyze the tension lying under the reciprocal determination between equality of social conditions and political freedom. Next, we envisage a discussion over the issue of political commitments (for state institutions and for citizenship action) in order to construct social conditions warranting freedom and equality as a common right for all citizens.
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Igualdad social, Libertad política, Tensiones, Construcción, Democracia, Social equality, Political freedom, Tensions, Construction, Democracy
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REIS, Helena Esser dos. Sobre la tarea política de construcción de la igualdad social: un abordaje de las ideas de Tocqueville. Arbor, Madrid, v. 187, n. 750, p. 725-732, jul./ago. 2011.