Hacia una filosofía política del socialismo del siglo XXInotas desde el caso venezolano

Résumé

In the 21st century, socialism needs to articulate common bases that allow for builing theoretical referents. To construct a self-powered theoretical frame is not a contribution. It was the error of historical materialism that it ended up being an ahistorical idealism that assumed a future yet to come. To lay the foundations of scientific referents on socialism we need to define some common ground, although, socialism being a normative proposal, the task certainly becomes a difficult one. Trying to overcome the obstacles, we need a definition of whatever socialism is. To establish the values underlying what socialism in the 21st century will be is a pending issue. A clarifying exercise is to compare those values with the other great trends of the past century: liberalism, 20th century socialism, and neoliberalism. Socialism cannot be understood outside the historical circumstances that orginated it, or outside the current processes that constitute it.