Subversive equality against liberal democratic cynicism

This article aims at theoretically discussing the relation between liberal democracy and inequality, by defending the idea that the struggle for equality is always a profound and necessary political subversive act against an established power structure. For this, initially, we present a discussion on the democratic foundation of the will of equals. After that, we articulate the relationship between a political system and the necessary exclusion that it promotes. Next, we analyse the idea of the law as arbitrary. In the end, we propose, according to the democratic foundation of the will of equals, that law has to be overlooked in the name of such will, that the legal system be just a mean of the execution of the political decision and not the opposite, as commonly has occurred in the West democracies.
Source: Psicologia e Sociedade - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research