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The following article tries to show the reader that in Mexico, the ideological and political struggle is and has been very rich in experiences. Although in the last years, some attempts have been made to make invisible and at certain moments the trade union and social struggle has been criminalized, it carries on standing against the extraparlamentary political powers. The work shows in a very synthetic way the historical development through which Mexican trade unionism has passed as opposed to the state and patronal power. As for the social movements, it reports its theorizing and diversity, especially under the polysemic and little clear category of civil society. The argument is kept that the social movements in Mexico have been the product of the reactivation of the civil society against the authoritarian political society. Deep in the essay, it is proposed to think about the convergence instrument with which the trade unions and the different civil institutions could stand against the political and economic crisis into which the project of the present-day government, ally of the patronal and ecclesiastic elite, has plunged the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current work raises three theoretical discussions in the field of the so-called social sciences: the individual-society debate, the discussion on the subject or structure and the one that takes place between the utilitarianism-intentionality. The assumption from which the essay starts is based on the idea that when unravelling the internal logics of the theoretical disputes, certain profits are generated in the disciplines that are carried out, by generating creativity and advance in them, either at a methodological, instrumental, technical or categorial level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the idea of civil disobedience as praxis from the perspective of the Latin American continent. Upon referring to the term civil, the importance of theorizing on the category of civil society is dealt with in unison with the concepts of democracy and praxis. The objective is to explain the justification of civil disobedience in democratic societies and the possibility of extending said disobedience to the field of social praxis beyond the liberal conception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]