LYSÝ, J.: Revolutions and Preventive Democracy in the Age of Extremes
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Philosophica Critica, vol. 2, 2016, no. 1, ISSN 1339-8970, pp. 23–32
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Abstract: Revolutions are events commencing the modern era. The event is accompanied by a new order being established, which means a considerable innovation. In the twentieth century wars and revolutions prevailed. Globalization brings into this process a dynamics manifested in neverending changes that have also had an impact on transformation of democracy. The deepening incommensurability of social positions has currently created separate social worlds. In addition to the fact that uncertainty is growing in the society as an unintended consequence, politics under this pressure is controlled by a forced, preventive manner of its functioning. The question is whether people will be able to use power within the politics trumped up in this way. The purpose of elites then is to remove people from power. Even democracy, in the state it is today in its efforts to be a politics is manifested as a prevention to bar undesirable conditions, situations and circumstances for the capital. In this respect it has become an arrangement removing the relationships of protection brought about and established by the modern society. It expropriates the relationship it has created, thus being unable to face the consequences of its own policies. It has been a repressive force of financial capital that has been facilitating “preventive democracy”.
Key words: Revolution – Transformation – Preventive democracy – Globalization
Key words: Revolution – Transformation – Preventive democracy – Globalization