Resumo

MONEDERO, Juan Carlos. Hacia una filosofía política del socialismo del siglo XXI: Notas desde el caso venezolano. CDC [online]. 2008, vol.25, n.68, pp.73-108. ISSN 1012-2508.

In the 21st century, socialism needs to articulate common bases that allow for building 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 originated it, or outside the current processes that constitute it.

Palavras-chave : Political philosophy; Neoliberalism; Socialism in the 21st century.