Essay on the Historical Failure of Democracy in the 21st Century: Democratic Postmodernity as a Means of Destruction of Freedom and the Modern State

Jesús G. Maestro

2024 urt. · Monografías 4. liburua · Jesús G. Maestro

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The democracy of the late 20th century has been more beneficial to the friends of commerce than to the democrats. Its advantages and successes have turned it into a political regime that is now anachronistic and untimely. Democracy is the name inherited from a past imperfect and recent, which used to manage our way of life. Today, that life of ours is managed by commerce and the friends of commerce. If politics is the organization of power, that is to say, the administration of freedom, the rights of the democratic citizen are moving away from the legal framework of the States. With the historical failure of democracy in the 21st century, three realities with which humans have lived since the Renaissance also fail: the modern State, political freedom, and civil laws. A post-democratic society is one in which the State fades away, political freedom disintegrates, and civil laws fit onto a complaint form, because the rights of the citizen are the rights of the consumer, in the hands of the friends of commerce, which is to say, nothing. People have not yet internalized the failure of democracy. The market does not want democrats; it wants consumers.

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Jesus G. Maestro is a university professor specialized in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. He has worked as a literary theorist and critic, as well as an editor and translator. He is the author of the work titled Critique of Literary Reason (2017). As a Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at a public university in the Spanish state, he directs the Hispanic Chair of Literary Studies and the International Program of Digital University Teaching. He has conducted teaching and research work at various universities in Europe and America, and has served as a translator, author, and editor of numerous books and academic publications on Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Literature, Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Theater Theory, Hispanism, and Philosophy of Literature. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Hispanic Philology in 1990, obtained his doctorate in 1993, and began his teaching career as a university professor in 1994. Advocating for a quality, open, and free public education, his academic teachings are available on the internet, with all his classes recorded in over a thousand freely accessible videos.