“HOW TO SAY US IF NOT AS AN ‘IF’, EQUAL TO EVERYONE AND NO ONE”

RETHINKING CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE LIGHT OF THE CONCEPT OF COMMUNITY

Abstract

This article seeks to carry out a theoretical investigation of the way in which the post-modernization of the global economy, in the last decades of the twentieth century, produced profound impacts on the forms of socio-political organization of human communities, causing, even, some seismic shocks in the state form as we know it. To think of our collective existence in terms of manifestations as a whole ordered for the common good, penetrated by manifestations of political power, requires us today, therefore, an effort to correct the understanding. It is necessary that we put the questions about society and the State back in a scenario in which a new concert of global forces requires that the economic, the political and the social overlap and complement each other in the production of wealth. Recognizing that such a reflection could open up infinite fronts of analysis and problematization, we aim, for the purposes of this article, at something more modest - it is our objective, from the reading of authors who somehow affirm the relational and dynamic nature of the collective subject, to rescue a form of our common existence that recovers its original sense of “community” which, we believe, allows the realization of human power in a complete way, beyond economic and political regulations.