democracy

Transitions Toward an Egalitarian Society: Placing Life Care at the Center of Politics

Anabella Di Tullio, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, España

Institutional Perspectives on Democracy in Latin America Today

Juan Felipe Quintero Leguizamón, Estefan Baleta López, Ramiro Rodríguez Beltrán, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca

Hermeneutics of Democracy: The Thought of Limits and the Colonial Difference

Walter Mignolo wmignolo@duke.edu Duke University, Durham, USA Abstract: History tells that Mahatma Gandhi was asked what he thought of civilization. Gandhi answered and said “civilization was a good idea”. The same can be said of “democracy”. This article proposes a decolonial lecture of the concept of “democracy” and suggests the incompatibility between democracy and capitalist […]

Seven theses on human rights de-colonization in Karl Marx: A diagnosis to assess the quality of democracy in Latin America

José Carlos García Ramírez mzen357@yahoo.com.mx Universidad Estatal del Valle de Ecatepec, Mexico Abstract: This paper aims to invite readers to undertake a new hermeneutic-political turn on the readings on Marx. I will examine the concept of human rights, traditionally stigmatized by the standard or dogmatic Marxism. To accomplish this purpose, we have to understand its […]

Learn To Live Without Masters: Slavoj Sizek In Dialogue With Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera  o.guardiola-rivera@bbk.ac.uk University of London, Birkbeck College, UK Slavoj Žižek slavoj.zizek@guest.arnes.si University of London, Birkbeck College, UK Abstract: Part of an extensive dialogue and debate still in progress, this fragment concentrates on three topics: the catastrophic equilibrium between democracy and crisis, the relationship between philosophy and the current situation, and the future of radical […]