Development as Inclusive Social Participation: Beyond the Conservative Systemic Comprehension of Social Evolution

Résumé

In this article, I argue that the profound growth of the current social-economic inequalities must be faced by a reaffirmation and a recovery of a political praxis that confronts conservative systemic comprehension of social evolution and institutional structuration, which leads to strong institutionalism, that is, to the centralization and monopolization of both social evolution and institutional dynamics within the social systems or institutions themselves and from a self-referential, self-subsisting and autonomous logic of functioning which is absolutely internal, technical, non-political and non-normative. This is the basic conservative argument, which depoliticizes the social-economic evolution and the projects of development, removing an inclusive democratic social participation of the economy and the political institutions. The central argument is that the politicization of institutional systemic logic leads to an inclusive political praxis which embraces all social systems and their constitution from a direct refusal of the laissez-faire, of minimal politics and of the technocracy concerning institutional dynamics.