Democracy, market and socialism

Abstract

This essay attempts to continue with the questionon the role of democracy and its tasks within the market economy. The new approach under this interrogation is to relocate the attention to the subject of socialism and specifically to what has been called market socialism. The hope is to present the theoretical developments related to the market socialism, and how, based on these, a new concept of democracy has been structured, of which its validity comes from the recognition of the so called real liberties and not only formal ones.

This debate takes us to a particular theoretical scenario, that of those known as analitical marxists, which has been subjected to a broad discussion, both from its supporters (defenders) as well as its critics. Here I mention several relevant authors on this line of thought such as: John Roemer, Adam Przeworki and Philippe Van Parijs, with the intention of offering an analytical presentation of the ideas of market, democracy and socialism.

As final considerations, this essay presents some critical outlining in honor of academic debates that have been made about these theoretical means in terms of the analytical equivalence that is made between methodological individualism an methodological collectivism. At the same time, about ignoring the market neutrality; and the validation that is made on the application of social democratic models.