Interview with Enrique Dussel

Abstract

Guaranteeing liberties would be the perfect policy, but if we were perfect, which would mean that we would be practically gods and that is impossible. Just like the kingdom of freedom, there is the kingdom of the economy. The perfect economy would be zero working time, but it would be a principle of impossibility, since the perfect is what cannot be overcome. The perfect economy would be zero time, in the kingdom of freedom, we would not work anymore. We would be dedicated to culture, art, everything. But as it is impossible, Marx tells us, we get closer by reducing the workday. So instead of eight hours, six hours, five hours, four hours ... We have more and more time for other things, but at time zero we will never arrive. That is to say, it will always be the kingdom of necessity -says it in Volume III of Capital-. So, there are indeed fundamental questions in the debate on politics, such as the issue of the State, and it is in these questions that the greatest misunderstandings about freedom are contained, as was the belief in the existence at the time. of communism and transition. The latter is a postulate and stupidity, since the postulate is impossible, because it does not go to ..., what there are are fairer systems, which are criticized from a perfect ideal, and that changes all politics.