LA ECONOMÍA POPULAR: SOCIEDAD CIVIL PRIVATIZADA EN LA ERA GLOBAL
Abstract
El fenómeno de la 'economía popular', permite analizar las características que asume la relación Estado, mercado y sociedad civil en un sector concreto, anclado históricamente en nuestras sociedades, que se ha extendido vertiginosamente en las últimas décadas alentado por los procesos de globalización. El desarrollo de este sector conduce a un trilema (no resuelto) entre estas tres esferas, porque si bien se configura y reproduce en el mercado y está sustentado en una sociedad civil fuertemente estructurada, prescinde del Estado; es más, se ha generado y se mantiene 'al margen' del Estado. En realidad la existencia y expansión de este sector social -cada vez más amplio y con mayor poder económico- se debe justamente a la articulación exitosa de sus condiciones sociales previas, con el mercado. Este sector ha constituido el fenómeno denominado globalización no-hegemónica, o globalización desde abajo, y una de sus características es que no pretende cuestionar o destruir al capitalismo, sino más bien es funcional a la reproducción del capital, porque vive de él, se alimenta y crece a través de él, participa del mercado de manera dinámica aunque no sea parte de los circuitos hegemónicos.
The phenomenon of the 'popular economy', allows the analysis of the characteristics that take the relationship State, market and civil society in a particular sector, historically anchored in our societies, which expanded rapidly in recent decades encouraged by globalization processes. The development of this sector leads to a trilemma (unsolved) among these three areas, because even though configures and reproduces in the market and is supported in a civil society strongly structured, it dispenses with the State; Moreover, it has generated and stays 'aside' from the State. In reality the existence and expansion of this social sector - increasingly broad and with greater economic power - is precisely the successful articulation of their previous social conditions, with the market. This sector has been the phenomenon called non-hegemonic globalization, or globalization from below, and one of its characteristics is that it intends not to question or destroy capitalism, but is rather functional to the reproduction of the capital, because he lives it, feed and grow through it, participates in the market in a dynamic way although it is not part of the hegemonic circuits.
The phenomenon of the 'popular economy', allows the analysis of the characteristics that take the relationship State, market and civil society in a particular sector, historically anchored in our societies, which expanded rapidly in recent decades encouraged by globalization processes. The development of this sector leads to a trilemma (unsolved) among these three areas, because even though configures and reproduces in the market and is supported in a civil society strongly structured, it dispenses with the State; Moreover, it has generated and stays 'aside' from the State. In reality the existence and expansion of this social sector - increasingly broad and with greater economic power - is precisely the successful articulation of their previous social conditions, with the market. This sector has been the phenomenon called non-hegemonic globalization, or globalization from below, and one of its characteristics is that it intends not to question or destroy capitalism, but is rather functional to the reproduction of the capital, because he lives it, feed and grow through it, participates in the market in a dynamic way although it is not part of the hegemonic circuits.
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Vol. 19, No. 29