O desafio da política darwinista: Algumas considerações sobre uma tendência da política hodierna

Abstract

Beginning with consideration of habermasian concept of chauvinism of welfare, comprehended as a process of consolidation of a Darwinist mentality, protective of the status quo, in the core of western democratic societies, in which the middle classes hold on in a conservative practice against marginalized groups marked by structural unemployment or underemployment, consolidated as underclass, I construct the concept of darwinist politics as refuse of recognition and, since a reconstruction of honnethian concept of reification as forgetfulness of recognition, I analyze contemporary sociopolitical problems in the sociability and political sphere, in which specific groups of society and conservative political forces assume clearly social darwinism as the mote from which are evaluated (and delegitimized) questions about social inequalities, cultural inclusion, and economic equalization. I will defend, therefore, that darwinist politics should be taken seriously as potential adversary of emancipatory and more universalistic democratic processes that criticize situations of severe sociopolitical and cultural injustice.