Autor
Palabras clave
Autoritarismo, cultura política, Hannah Arendt, François Furet, populismo, totalitarismo.
Resumen
Una teoría crítica del totalitarismo es necesaria por la perseverancia de las condiciones que crearon el totalitarismo «clásico», fenómeno que se puede percibir hoy en algunas regiones del Tercer Mundo. Es útil una clara distinción entre autoritarismo y totalitarismo, para luego analizar las posibilidades del totalitarismo derivadas del populismo carismático y de las rutinas despóticas de culturas no democráticas y antipluralistas. En el Tercer Mundo y a causa del proceso de modernización parcial, florecen ahora las patologías de la modernidad, que acompañan el totalitarismo.
Keywords
Authoritarianism, civic culture, Hannah Arendt, François Furet, populism, totalitarianism.
Abstract
A critical theory of totalitarianism is necessary because of the permanence of
those conditions which produced the «classical» totalitarian regimes. This phenomenon can be also perceived today in some regions of the Third World. A clear distinction between authoritarianism and totalitarianism is useful, in order to analyse further the possibilities of totalitarianism contained in charismatic populism and in the despotic routines of non democratic and antipluralistic cultures. In the Third World and because of a partial modernization process, the pathologies of modernity can be also found, which are distinctive of totalitarianism.
those conditions which produced the «classical» totalitarian regimes. This phenomenon can be also perceived today in some regions of the Third World. A clear distinction between authoritarianism and totalitarianism is useful, in order to analyse further the possibilities of totalitarianism contained in charismatic populism and in the despotic routines of non democratic and antipluralistic cultures. In the Third World and because of a partial modernization process, the pathologies of modernity can be also found, which are distinctive of totalitarianism.