One of the dialogues in the delightful volume entitled The world keeps beat with Alain Finkielkraut, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk encouraged, with his usual caustic, a reflection on the contemporary that can be used among us to think about the idea of \u200b\u200bthe center.
Sloterdijk presents simply the condition of contemporaneity is built when you share a negative learning. Beyond a primary agreement, and not be tempted to assume that the proposition flagellant, I propose to think the center-provided or rather its practical formalization avoiding aside candor and other frivolity.
does not, clearly, a look at the situation on the obvious and ominous miserable typical list of closures or a pre-electoral process. Rather the contrary, I must establish a more amplified account of what has been done or not from the Argentine political experiences are conceptual Enroll self under the control of the center in their diverse expressions semantics.
An initial assessment includes a regional dimension, it is clear that in looking comparatively development center forces in our neighboring countries, Argentine attitudes are highly deficient. Both in relation to the real possibility of finding points of contact between different versions of the world but competing parties and coalitions to form viable and stable, and in the actual implementation of public policies to solve concrete problems of construction of citizenship, our regional friends, especially Brazil and Chile visibly surpass us. Although it is clear that not living in the realm of equality, these countries walk forward and build inclusive spaces laboriously growing and build up their leadership in our country while policy makers are content with a permanent redescription problems without, in decades, the principle of the solution.
And this is a central point when reflection takes the path of the center. Since the restoration of democracy, different governments, even local, have set out from progressive positions. However, there is no certain indication of which have been established or primarily, discussions that would enable policies that deserve this name. Both with regard to treatment of inequalities, and in relation to policy and institutional reforms, the forces that call themselves progressive have not advanced one step in a visible and ostensible reformist path.
There is genuine universal policy to return fellow dignity violated by the desperation of poverty, no trace of a serious exercise of political reform to establish features of modernization in the electoral system and much less on the party life. These are passive protagonists of their own extinction without undergoing a review and without their key decision-makers can support even a brief, brief, error.
The policies of the center are the most conservative of Argentina's policy and that is unfortunately used by an exercise of institutional conservatism axis is different parties and also have intellectual and academic practices of self-justification.
We are contemporaries (in the sense Sloterdijkiano) of this idea of \u200b\u200bthe center. Talking about contemporary somehow is talking about the exercise of a community. The question here is how the community can live without despair and without our own life feel violated? You need to install an uninhibited debate about the conditions of possibility sociological, political and experiential democratic left politics and it must assume the risks of a conversation of which the end is not known but which, in turn, is prudent and necessary to trust him. A conversation but harmonious and collaborative conflict between different theoretical families, including complex visions of the problems and the imagination that must be implemented to repair the political damage that did to society. A specific discussion about what is new and what no longer serves on the responsibilities and omissions.
Sloterdijk In its defense, usually defined Finkielkraut of the contemporary condition as the existence of a catalog of disappointments. Living in the same calendar time does not make us contemporary conservatives who insist that they are center-left.
