Crisis y futuros de la izquierda: tendencias de desarrollo histórico y pensamiento estratégico

Abstract

This article argues that the left became a prisoner of short-term visions and, therefore, also of conceptions in which tactics are superimposed on strategy. Check out the historical debate on the left about the development trends of capitalism and modernity. It argues that opposite tendencies are developing to strengthen the State, but also to increase the autonomy of the individual and of the collectivities, and that this should take precedence over the fight against monopolies and imperialism, contrary to what has been proposed by the Brazilian left. It thus takes up the innovative positions of the left supported, in different ways, by the Brazilian Communist Party and by the Workers' Party, but which have been increasingly devalued in recent decades. A long-term vision must be assumed, and short-term tactics must again be subordinated to the imperative of deepening democracy.