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2012: An idea whose time has passed (2)

THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE DAY ON MARCH 19, 2011
During the Ming Dynasty had a hangman named Wang Lun, whose fame was to wait on death row at the bottom of steps of the scaffold and slay their victims as they climbed the stairs. He cherished an ambition: to behead a person with a blow so accurate that it would not notice. At last the big moment arrives. 11 December had rolled heads. Despite Wang's sword flashed, the victim went up the stairs and reach the end said: Cruel Wang Lun why prolong my agony, having beheaded the other quickly and pious. Wang, hearing that at last his life's ambition was fulfilled with exquisite courtesy said: Simply take a bow, please.

Now that another explosion presence of latent crisis afflicting the party left no farther than to assume that his head is cut off and have not yet been realized.

The PRD has meant a qualitative leap positive all left and to society itself. The great contribution of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas was to have inspired an exemplary transition from the social movements of the 80 at a crucial institution in the democratic transition, the PRD itself. Many were disappointed however in subsequent years before the leaders stifling the blatant clientelism and the lack of a shared political culture would have strengthened dialogue and substantive discussion. Despite these distortions the PRD government has provided important experiences, public policies, innovative and sometimes played as a counterweight in a political environment determined by a strong conservatism. The

PRD has been marked by two contradictions. A product of the same name not because they necessarily think the revolution as a violent rupture process, but because even in a horizon of real democracy in acts founders intended. Both in 1988 and 2006-and later-assumptions entertained the idea of \u200b\u200binternships in the Executive Branch of a before and after clear between authoritarianism and democracy, or between right and left.

This contradiction carries a second one from the previous. Just made this contradiction is summed up in the idea of \u200b\u200ba party that simultaneously aspires to be a social movement. This contradiction is unsurpassed. Or is political party participating in elections, falls under the Legislative and aspires to govern municipalities, states and eventually the federal Executive. Or is social movement union character, character specific causes of national or social movement that is emerging from below and transformation of society as it clearly raised the EZLN and the Other Campaign. When you want to be both at the same time, a concept ends up dominating the other. Or the party dominates and makes the movements of transmission belts, or the movement dominates and then diluted the importance of the electoral party that becomes testimonial. If the party is in the government formed a state corporatism, if is not in government patronage networks are developed.

visions that coexist in the left party are expressions of these contradictions. One is thinking about how to win an election in 2012 to initiate a gradual process of transformation from the federal Executive and Congress. Another is thinking beyond 2012 on how to build a movement that will lead to changes from below and from society.
is better to find ways of living and are transient. In 2012 played essentials for the country and require the presence of the PRD. Then perhaps it's proof of the reverence for the one about the Chinese executioner.