The Constituent Assembly: A new social contract.
Reading time 3 minutes
Colombia, registers as never before a real socio-political chaos with the arrival of a populist government as progressive, which is already approaching the midterm of the first legacy of the left in the history of this country, without major achievements compared to what was promised in the electoral campaign for which he was elected.
The positions of both the center-right are quite
copious - and I propose it in this way and not in another, since to speak of
the ultra-right would be to include armed or unarmed actors with the capacity
for sabotage and destabilization by means of fact, as the so–called first line
did, in acts that propitiated and helped the assumption of power of the
Executive - such as the center and ultra-left, both currents engaged in tautological
treatments (from the Greek ταυτολογία), in the midst of a media revolution.
This populist current is trying to deconstruct the
position that, since the birth of the Republic, bipartisanship has formulated,
and from the 1991 Constitution - of which the current president of the
Colombians was a participant - the inclusion of more leftist currents in
democracy, to try in this new reality that afflicts great paradigms of social
inequalities as I would say, Muñiz (2016) to make a new contract between the
State and society.
Hence the importance not only for Colombia, but also
for the Latin American and world left of what can be achieved to finalize the
call for a new “National Constituent Assembly”, which, by the way, would not
change the Constitution of '91, which is also broad and extensive, but would be
responsible for making that new social contract.
According to Hobbes (1882) the durability of this
contract is subject to the existence of a broad social consensus, governing
people's lives on fair and equitable terms. But this is also not possible in
its entirety, given the great differences that remain in the cloak of impunity,
not even in the armed actors, even worse, in corruption, opprobrium of
political leaders, State agents, justice itself and society, understood as the
focus that has perverted that altruistic look of this first social contract.
The slogan of “Total Peace”, as totality is
unaffordable, since for there to be peace there must be war, for there to be
hatred there must be love, there will always be a duality. According to Bruno
(2011) Karl Marx pointed out that "To gather all the facts does not yet
mean to know reality, and all the facts (together) do not yet constitute the
totality” (p.78)
Anyway, in the midst of this initiative of a new National
Constituent Assembly, to consolidate Total Peace, we find a government that has
ostensibly weakened the Institutions and chaos has increased in all facets of
society as a government, where society is at the mercy of vandals and the most
pressing needs such as health to mention just one aspect, hoping that these hot
topics will be starting points to find consensus on Peace and the creation of a
New National Constituent Assembly.
Citizens of the polis Will we achieve a new National
Constituent Assembly and with that we will achieve Total Peace?
Reference
Bruno, D. (2011). La dialéctica histórica de Karl Marx. CLACSO.
Obtenido de
https://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/Argentina/iigg-uba/20120628034903/1_7.pdf
Hobbes,
Thomas (1982): Leviathan, Londres, Penguin Classics. [Ed. esp.
(2018): Leviatán o la materia, forma y poder de un Estado eclesiástico
y civil, Carlos Mellizo (trad.), Madrid, Alianza Editorial
Muñiz,
Manuel (2016): «Populism and the Need for a New Social Contract», Social
Europe, 11 de octubre. Disponible en https://www.socialeurope.eu/populism-and-the-need-for-a-new-social-contract. [Ed.
esp. (2017): «El populismo y la necesidad de un nuevo contrato social», CTXT
Revista Contexto, n.º 142. Disponible en https://ctxt.es/es/20171108/Firmas/16039/riqueza-capital-contrato-social-Manuel-Muñiz-CTXT.htm
https://www.fundacioncarolina.es/catalogo/puede-la-izquierda-latinoamericana-prefigurar-un-nuevo-contrato-social/
No hay comentarios: