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We re-read this wonderful Bulgarian writer, who left us on the last day of February 7, and to re-read The Enemies of Democracy, I note another probable prophecy of someone who, besides philosophy and politics, spoke of literature and the arts, without ever losing the charm And belief in life.
In his book The Intimate Enemies of Democracy, translated into Portuguese in 2012, he asserts that one of the enemies of democracy is precisely the United States, and for this to make sense, we need to understand what democracy really is.
The reason is that the United States has built an outstanding model of this form of government, who knows the literature of Democracy in America of Alexis Tocqueville will soon understand, they have never experienced coups or censorship of the press, wrote Todorov, the electoral system therein Has proven his ability to apprehend the sentiment of the majority, did not write but could have written: and if one day this majority felt betrayed.
Todorov, who said that democracy was a form of control by the people of the state and not the contrary as many believe, saw in the war in Iraq and other wars, of course, a kind of American messianism of the type: we defend the world .
The understanding we have of what corresponds to Joaquim de Fiori’s doctrine, according to which the history of the West would culminate in a third age of peace and prosperity, was nothing more than late Hegelianism and Enlightenment.
The distinctive feature of this belief in the state is that it manifests itself in a cult that is fond of those who devote themselves to religions, yet religions of various shades do not escape it.
He who lived in the iron curtain says that in Soviet Russia traces of this behavior were recorded, but the finished expression of the phenomenon would be Liberation Theology, insofar as it transforms the Marxist vulgate into an object of worship without ever understanding the ideological question , Especially on the philosophical question.
But it is also critical of neoliberalism, which is made of representative democratic government: “Political messianism and neoliberalism are at first glance with two opposing tendencies: the first demonstrates the capacity for state intervention; The second, its progressive erasure. It is as if one’s strength were to compensate, or dissemble, the weakness of the other: the triumphal march of armies abroad is opposed to the impotence of the state in its own territory. It has the impression that it is much easier for American President Obama to bomb Libya than to make him accept an improvement in the social security system in his country “(Todorov, 148).
Todorov makes a number of conclusions, including criticism in a responsible manner of technology, but as democracy has stated: “Democracy is sick of its understatedness: freedom becomes tyranny, people become manipulative mass, desire to promote progress if It becomes a crusade spirit. The economy, the state and the right cease to be means destined to the flourishing of all and now participate of a process of dehumanization. On some days this process seems irreversible to me. “(Todorov, 197)
“On certain days”, of course, we must fight for the empowerment of the population, allow more people to participate in the democratic process, we could say in a sense what Todorov wrote: “more democracy is the medicine”, where everyone participates directly.
Tzvetan Todorov – Os inimigos intimos da democracia (“The intimate enemies of democracy’). São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2012