Democracy and Autocracy Today

Abstract

The recent political and electoral advance of the extreme right and its authoritarian perspective puts liberal democracy at risk just after the period of its greatest development and expansion. Beyond a merely conjunctural phenomenon, in my evaluation, the crisis of liberal democracy is part of deep changes in the social order of capital itself, which exacerbates the class exclusivism of the bourgeois state and strengthens the authoritarian and fascist elements contained within it. From the historical review of its trajectory, I will seek to discuss the evolution, the limits and the contradictions of liberal democracy.