Totalitarismo en la actualidad

Abstract

It is commonly believed that totalitarianisms can only exist in societies that have repealed democracy or replaced it. On the other hand it is also believed that after Nazi Germany it is impossible to return to countries that fall into totalitarianism. However, it is worth reviewing our Latin American context, global but also personal, because we live in a world that although globalized, neoliberal, capitalist and democratic, is not exempt from certain foci where totalitarian systems seem to be successful and, where many people, They want that success to be replicated in their nations. To formalize the analysis described above, a pedagogical proposal is made where the work done with eleventh grade students from a private school in Bogotá, about totalitarianism in our time, is evident. In this pedagogical exercise it is tried to show the professional formation like teacher of the degree in Philosophy and Religious Education, planning and executing a class on the subject. For this purpose different positions on totalitarianism that allow to be contrasted and updated are retaken: to the philosopher and writer Hannah Arendt from his work Eichmann in Jerusalem and the analysis he makes of the effects, of the totalitarian system, on the human being; To the philosopher Emil Cioran in his essay Russia and the virus of freedom where he praises and vindicates the totalitarian systems that have existed and the achievements of the countries that have been encouraged to sustain this system; Finally, the philosopher and theologian Juan Antonio Guerrero in his essay Totalitarianism in our present where he takes up the works of Arendt to reflect from their contributions and apply the learning in our time. Within the results of the exercise you can see that in our Colombian context, totalitarianisms coexist with democracy and that, as in Nazi Germany, there are many people who agree and support the leaders who hold totalitarian ideas.