An Arche or Barbarism: The responsibility of being of/in the world

ABSTRACT

The article is trying to propose some of the starting points to rethinking some of the crucial elements of politics such as the emancipation potential of people, radical equality/democracy and just social order in the recent time of so-called global financial crisis, which is a direct consequence of the global, vulgar post-Fordist neo-liberal hegemony, through which the global market firmly established itself and introduced the market logic into all spheres of life — including. life itself! — while transforming the proletariat (the working class) into the precariat (the imperiled class living in uncertainty). The text is critically re-questioning the concepts of state, sovereignty and (consensual) democracy, i.e. the concepts that are taken for granted and considered unchangeable and finite, and consequently is raises the question of a (new) political subject and the ways to resist the brutal capital-driven system which, by producing and maintaining inequality, exploitation and control, with people having value only as cheap workforce or commodities, sustains the creation and preservation of global governance. Another related question proceeding from it is the question of (parliamentary) representation, advocacy or (Leftist) party organization. What has become of the idea of the (socialist) Left, which proverbially and historically worked towards justice, solidarity and equality? At the time of its total disintegration and the overwhelming domination of the Right, which is also or primarily, enabled by the Left itself the article suggesting the re-thinking of the Marxist, socialist and communist ideas in a new political context.

KEYWORDS:

• political emancipation
• radical equality/democracy
• new political subject
• communist idea