Teoría del Disenso.

The purpose of this paper is not to treat the theme of dissent as conflict in the style of Marx and Engels. This is a theme for Marxism and its proponents. We will not treat it from the perspective of conflict theory, which has also received extensive treatment since the 1970s on the part of Julien Freud and Gaston Bouthoul. The intention here is to analyze dissent from the perspective of the constitution of critical theory. We understand this is not easy, and requires interdisciplinary study, even when a few authors (Cacciari, Siena, Douguin) have meditated on this theme. This small contribution attempts to complete the Ensayos de Disenso. which will soon be published in an Argentinian version. We hope to respond, within limitations, to the School of Frankfurt, since for over thirty years their theory of consensus has been imposed on western democracies, and has its ideological origins in the so-called neo-Marxist school headed by the philosopher Jurgen Habermas. The result of this was that consensus or agreement among major political parties was transformed into the moral basis of our ever-weakening democracies. This replaced genuine representative democracy, transforming universal secret suffrage into a real farce. It merely justified the decisions already made by agreements among political parties. Our proposal is to treat dissent as a true causal agent in critical post-modem theory, and attempt to open truly plural social spaces in the procedural democratic system which is lacking in content. To consensus among major parties we must add multiple and diverse social consensus platforms, patronized by large interest lobby groups and social civic institutions, in order for change to occur. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]