A democracia dialógica e a economia solidária

Abstract

The existence of democratic experiences organized "bottom up" whose participation exercise occurs in a comprehensive and inclusive way, coordinated with other forms of mobilization and collective action, constitutes as an alternative to democratic forms of resistance merely representative. On this track, the experiences of self-managed solidary economy represents a different logic to the work that goes beyond a simple answer to unemployment, because the association of people in collaborative enterprises have assumed as a more dignified life, to the extent that these social action initiatives, which are based on solidarity, autonomy and self-management, democracy and participation, as well as the recognition of social differences, providing a logic beyond of instrumental reason. In that sense, this thesis stems from the desire to trace the main features of the sociopolitical implications of developments of economic solidarity, and to associate these political practices to dialogic democracy in their internal relations management. For this, the research relies on data from national mapping social economy, which demonstrate the existence of social bonds of enterprises with its surroundings, as well as democratic practices in everyday endeavors. On the theoretical side, we use the dialogic and deliberative democracy from the communicative action of Jürgen Habermas, who in his critical theory, builds devices to measure higher or lower coefficient of democratic participation in a system, and also examines the procedures characteristic of the State of Law which guarantee the democratic legitimacy from a conception of rationality which can emancipate themselves from the individualist assumptions and state. In Brazil, where democracy has taken root in the field much more formal than in the everyday practices, facing many restrictions that still remain, the solidary economy conforms an ethical-political field, driving movimentalistas networks, on whose foundations alliances are built, and values are settled for a new democratic actor.