Capitalismo e democracia na era do mercado internacional

Abstract

This work presents an analysis of the reality of the liberal democracy model, scattered today in the globe, in its interaction with the hegemonic mode of production and the consequences for the State and civil society. The relationship between capitalist market globalised and traditional policy produces in contemporaneity a new political and cultural scenario which modifies the behavior of human communities. Capitalism broadcasted around the planet, accompanied by western politicians values (with the emphasis to liberal democracy), promotes the reaction and transformation of involved societies, today almost on a irremediable way, by capitalist internationalized market. The international market spreads around the globe and the financial economy is out of the traditional policy control, the speed of the financial trades and the movement of goods are accelerated through the spread of new information technologies and transport. The movement of information spreads ethical, political and aesthetic values by the planet, generating the clash between cultures, dissolving the tradition and thus allowing the development of greater “social reflectiveness". The instability of democratic regimes is aggravated with the increase in the social demands from a greater political clarification of the population and the mobilisation of new social movements. The State suffers big difficulties to administrate the new social context and, weakened by market forces in its power of economical intervention, loses capacity for action and consequently the credibility of the population. Strengthened by the expansion of the market, capitalism reaches the "second world" forcing directly or indirectly the transformation of States self-mentioned socialists. The capitalist way of production spreaded through the process of globalisation and internationalisation of the market generates exclusion at the same time that spreads liberal democracy. The pronounced freedom of the market, preached by the new liberalism, opens a way for the financial speculation without commitments to the interests of democracy, which makes the economical crisis a constant possibility threatening countries economically interdependent. In the context of the current crisis of capitalism, market agents appeal to the State, momently, searching for restoring of the financial equilibrium. The rescue of Keynesianism appears as a possibility. For the effective realization of democracy, achievement of equitable justice and preservation of rights of individuals, it is expected on the part of the State to promote or facilitate an area propitious for the exercise of citizenship, for which cultural movements may contribute a lot.