Cuando Europa se aburre: una mirada latinoamericana de la crisis

In: Nueva Sociedad, Heft 240, S. 28-40

Abstract

In March of 1968, Pierre Viansson-Ponté wrote an article which would become famous: «When France Grows Bored», which treated with irony a conglomerate of elements which would explode soon after in France in May. There he noted something remarkably current: «the true objective of politics can not be restricted to administrating the common good 'the least bad possible'». But even this minimum seems violated in politics today by a succession of conservative decisions in which austerity is the word of order, whilst creativity to face the crisis seems also absent in the progressive visions. (NuSo/GIGA)