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DEMOCRACY TODAY
The community itself consciously establishes limits to self-determination
power, in order to protect itself from occasional majorities.
But there are non-explicit cases of political universe constriction,
which result from choices that are not shown as choices. In a very actual
example, the decisions on economics usually are not presented as decisions,
but as inevitable conducts, policies and ruling. This results from
its naturalization and mathematization. Some questions keep “naturally”
and “obviously” out of discussion, as the gravitational law: who could
deliberate about it? Nobody but a mad person would discuss the competition
as a natural law of economical life - or that a good place in the global
trade system is the main task of any country’s external policy. [3]
Another question is related to this: the tendency to uniformization
of opinion, favored by the exclusion of possibilities of communitarian
and personal self-determination. Falsification finally builds reality.
The ideological affirmation of a certain order of coexistence as natural,
rebuilds the world as it values for us, and then that is converted into
nature. In consequence of the narrowing of political horizon, we are
getting to be more and more identical, unanimous, in our fundamental
views. This homogeneity is reflected in the insipid programs of political
parties, very hard to distinguish.
2. Philosophy as Struggling
The pursuit of a genetic sense for Politics requires a clear and relevant
meaning for Philosophy. We would like to suggest a not academic but
e das associações sindicais; f) A coexistência do sector público, do sector privado e do
sector cooperativo e social de propriedade dos meios de produção; g) A existência de
planos económicos no âmbito de uma economia mista; h) O sufrágio universal, directo,
secreto e periódico na designação dos titulares electivos dos órgãos de soberania, das
regiões autónomas e do poder local, bem como o sistema de representação proporcional; i)
O pluralismo de expressão e organização política, incluindo partidos políticos, e o direito
de oposição democrática; j) A separação e a interdependência dos órgãos de soberania; l)
A fiscalização da constitucionalidade por acção ou por omissão de normas jurídicas; m)
A independência dos tribunais; n) A autonomia das autarquias locais; o) A autonomia
político-administrativa dos arquipélagos dos Açores e da Madeira.
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Europeans can possibly think if this is the case for participating in the Union, with heavy
political, economical and legal consequences arising from this “absolute necessity”.