In Defense of Socialism

The administered world has lost control. From north to south, from east to west. The welfare state has been disorganized. The Soviet system has collapsed. The developmental state no longer holds together. From the ideological point of view, the decline of these structures, which have been associated with progressive practices, suggests at first sight, the overwhelming victory of conservative thought, which has always condemned them to failure.

However, it should also be recognized that a certain Marxist tradition, which has not been very evident politically, but which theoretically is the most sophisticated, never imagined human emancipation would be the results of the experiments, which are now falling apart. It is quite true that the loss of control of the administration of the world was never on the horizon of this tradition. But should one not consider it from its own perspective and not just from that which today is hegemonic? Does not the process which is now taking place bring together with it possibilities which can enable the reorganization — right from scratch — of those which believe in the positive surpassing of the reigning order?