| dc.description.abstract | This work presents an analysis of the reality of the liberal democracy model,
scattered today in the globe, in its interaction with the hegemonic mode of
production and the consequences for the State and civil society. The
relationship between capitalist market globalised and traditional policy produces
in contemporaneity a new political and cultural scenario which modifies the
behavior of human communities. Capitalism broadcasted around the planet,
accompanied by western politicians values (with the emphasis to liberal
democracy), promotes the reaction and transformation of involved societies,
today almost on a irremediable way, by capitalist internationalized market. The
international market spreads around the globe and the financial economy is out
of the traditional policy control, the speed of the financial trades and the
movement of goods are accelerated through the spread of new information
technologies and transport. The movement of information spreads ethical,
political and aesthetic values by the planet, generating the clash between
cultures, dissolving the tradition and thus allowing the development of greater
“social reflectiveness". The instability of democratic regimes is aggravated with
the increase in the social demands from a greater political clarification of the
population and the mobilisation of new social movements. The State suffers big
difficulties to administrate the new social context and, weakened by market
forces in its power of economical intervention, loses capacity for action and
consequently the credibility of the population. Strengthened by the expansion of
the market, capitalism reaches the "second world" forcing directly or indirectly
the transformation of States self-mentioned socialists. The capitalist way of
production spreaded through the process of globalisation and
internationalisation of the market generates exclusion at the same time that
spreads liberal democracy. The pronounced freedom of the market, preached
by the new liberalism, opens a way for the financial speculation without
commitments to the interests of democracy, which makes the economical crisis
a constant possibility threatening countries economically interdependent. In the
context of the current crisis of capitalism, market agents appeal to the State,
momently, searching for restoring of the financial equilibrium. The rescue of
Keynesianism appears as a possibility. For the effective realization of
democracy, achievement of equitable justice and preservation of rights of
individuals, it is expected on the part of the State to promote or facilitate an area
propitious for the exercise of citizenship, for which cultural movements may
contribute a lot. | |
