There is no democratic State without a bureaucracy that is at the service of citizens and users.
There is no capitalist economy that works well
without entrepreneurs and workers investing, producing, consuming and saving
.
And there is no true democracy without majorities and minorities
alternating in the exercise of government
and opposition as determined by the popular will expressed at the polls.
Those who fulfill one role today can fulfill the other tomorrow.
Each with equal legitimacy.
Modern Western societies that reached high levels of development did so
by combining the three things
: liberal democracy, capitalist economy and responsible state.
It is a system of exchanges in which all actors pursue their own interests, present their ideas and objectives, defend their interests, knowing that their defense and pursuit depends on these exchanges not being lost, not broken, not interrupted. , do not be corrupted.
And it is, as such, a zero-sum game (what some win, others lose) that can become, when it bears fruit, one in which everyone wins.
What cannot exist is a system that works
without some of the
intervening factors and actors.
Robert Alford and Roger Friedland, in a classic text of political science (
"The Powers of Theory"
), summarize the idea: in contemporary societies there are three logics that coexist;
that of the State, that of capitalism and that of democracy.
Government management must ensure that these three logics are like the wheels of a gear that maintains the functioning of the social system, without confusing some logics with others.
Those who assume that it is possible to subsume the logic of the market to that of the State and that it is the State that imposes its conditions on the economy do not understand it this way.
Neither do those who maintain
that there can be a free market economy without a State that guarantees the conditions
, frameworks and rules of coexistence and social action.
And neither do those who subordinate the logic of democracy to that of the reason of State or the market, taking pluralist deliberation, negotiation and the search for agreements, the control of powers and Pay accounts.
Even fewer are those who support the reason of State
while philosophically disbelieving in its existence and necessity.
The State has stopped being the solution to problems, and has become just another problem to solve.
Inflation and fiscal deficit are expressions of this.
The "star" presidential advisor Federico Sturzenegger said it differently this week in
A Dos Voces
when talking about the cultural battle that the Government is waging to leave behind
"the pre-existing narrative"
, in which
"for 20 years it was heard
that the State was the solution
to the problems”,
to move on
“to one where it is said that the State
can be the cause of the problems”
.
But the treatment can be extremely counterproductive if it is believed that the solution is to end it, dismantle it, take it to its minimum expression, proposing the utopia (or dystopia) of a capitalism without a State.
That can lead to the opposite path to which they say they want to go.
To another type of State, Hobbes would say: the state of nature where the law of the strongest prevails.