Notes to redefine the Left

Abstract

Many of the discussions exercised by public opinion, the common, non-academic opinion, use traditional notions that, in most cases, have been overcome by the most dedicated analyzes. That happens, in Mexico at least, with the discussions on the left. It seems to me that the first impression that one has of the left takes up images of totalitarian, authoritarian and restrictive governments of basic civil liberties, or that, on the contrary, they violate dogmatic morality, fruit of the retrograde interpretation of the ecclesiastical hierarchs from the country. That is to say: either it is speculated that the left signifies a dictatorship of violent impositions that prohibit the free flow of the market or freedom of expression (recalling the old Russian communism or the current Cuban or Venezuelan system), or a left that attempts against inert values ​​of Mexican society, which allows abortion or gay marriage. Well, a more attentive and interested viewer knows that the left today is not based, fundamentally, on either of these two positions.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3829301

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