Civil society vs. State hegemony. The praxeology of human rights and subalternal democracy.Comments on the purpose of the work of master Álvaro Márquez-Fernández

Abstract

Professor Álvaro Marquez is one of the most outstanding academic voices in all of Latin America  in  everything  related  to  the  issue  of  democracy,  whether  as  a  critic  to  the representative democracies that have failed the population and have sold themselves to foreign interests, either as a defender of the construction of a new democratic paradigm that puts organized society in a leading role and human rights as an essential tool. The goal  of  this  paper  is  to  signal  some  of  Márquez-Fernández key  ideas, particularly  his views on modern democracy’s crisis, the need to consolidate a mew democratic model he called “subaltern”, which following a perspective heir of Capozzi’s human rights praxeology, put its eye in society’s role in the creation of the new democracythrough its struggles. The paper was written through the analysis of several papers published by Marquez-Fernandez  in  the  last  decade,  with  references  to  the  work  of  Capozzi,  and other  authors  like  Alonso  Sanchez  and  Beatriz  Guardia.  After  analyzing  Márquez-Fernández  ideas  we  can  conclude  that  in  order  to  achieve  the  transition  from representative  democracy  to  a  true  democratic  system  is  necessary  to  awake  the citizens’ conscience, who will be the ones who will conquer the public spaces through their fights and activism. To that end, is essential to promote the utopic thought, to break through the modern paradigms and start searching for a better democratic praxis.