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En este artículo presentamos las ideas básicas que subyacen a la teoría política republicana y establecemos una línea de demarcación entre la perspectiva republicana y el libertarianismo de izquierdas, el cual tiene en la renta básica de Alaska su plasmación institucional más natural e inmediata. A partir de ahí, abordamos tres conjuntos de problemas que presenta el modelo de Alaska: la falta de una base económica sustancial, la falta de frenos a la acumulación de poder económico privado y la falta de mecanismos de control democrático sobre los procesos de extracción, imposición tributaria y distribución de los recursos naturales. Así, para que el republicanismo pueda hacerlo suyo, el modelo de Alaska debe ser sometido a importantes enmiendas y modificaciones que tienen que ver tanto con su naturaleza intrínseca como con el contexto institucional en el que opera. De este modo, concluimos sosteniendo que, aun cuando el modelo de Alaska puede ser compatible con la perspectiva republicana en un sentido débil, los republicanos deben proceder con cautela a la hora de defender el modelo en un sentido fuerte.

In this article we consider the potential of a Basic Income (BI) as a mechanism for promoting well-integrated and autonomous social and productive development in newly independent Democratic Republic of East Timor, and for expanding the freedom of this country's population that is struggling to throw off the bitter legacy of colonial and postcolonial dispossession and violence. We briefly outline the main social and economic problems faced by the new Democratic Republic of East Timor. Then we argue that a BI financed by oil and natural gas revenues could play a major role in combating these problems.

In this article we consider the potential of a Basic Income (BI) as a mechanism for promoting well-integrated and autonomous social and productive development in newly independent Democratic Republic of East Timor, and for expanding the freedom of this country's population that is struggling to throw off the bitter legacy of colonial and postcolonial dispossession and violence. We briefly outline the main social and economic problems faced by the new Democratic Republic of East Timor. Then we argue that a BI financed by oil and natural gas revenues could play a major role in combating these problems.

The terms modernity and capitalism remain in widespread use to characterize contemporary societies, but the distinction between them is much less antagonistic in current social theory than it used to be when a theory of 'modern society' was opposed to the theory of 'late capitalism'. Rather than seeing societies either on an evolutionary trajectory realizing the functionally efficient institutionalization of freedom or as determined by increasing contradictions due to the logics of capital and to class struggle, a key task of social theory today is to reconceptualize modernity and capitalism in such a way that the dynamics of historical transformations and the varieties of current socio-political constellations can be more adequately understood. This article contributes to addressing this task, introducing a special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory devoted to 'modernity and capitalism'. This introduction elaborates a concept of modernity focused on the interpretative self-understanding of societies and a concept of capitalism as a historically specific response to the question of satisfying human material needs. On this conceptual basis, a historical-comparative perspective is taken to analyze transformations in the self-understandings of societies and the institutional changes in organizing the economy related to the former, placing the comparative analysis of societies in the global context of transformations of modernity and capitalism.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I Reconstructing the History of Atlantic Modernity -- 1 The American Divergence, the Modern Western World and the Paradigmatisation of History -- 2 The Limits of Recognition: History, Otherness and Autonomy -- 3 On Being in Time: Modern African Elites and the Historical Challenge to Claims for Alternative and Multiple Modernities -- 4 The Sublime Dignity of the Dictator:1 Republicanism and the Return of Dictatorship in Political Modernity -- 5 The Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment: Between Reform and Revolution -- Part II Comparing Trajectories of Modernity in the South -- 6 Inconsistencies between Social-democratic Discourses and Neo-liberal Institutional Development in Chile and South Africa: a Comparative Analysis of the Post-authoritarian Periods1 -- 7 HIV/AIDS Policies and Modernity in Brazil and South Africa: a Comparative Critical Analysis -- 8 Land and Restitution in Comparative Perspective: Analysing the Evidence of Right to Land for Black Rural Communities in Brazil and South Africa -- Part III Claims for Justice in the History of Modernity and in its Present -- 9 An Unsettled Past as a Political Resource -- 10 Injustice at Both Ends: Pre- and Post-apartheid Literary Approaches to Injustice, Sentiment and Humanism in the Work of C. Louis Leipoldt, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and the Film Invictus -- 11 The Student Movement in Chile 2011-12: Rearming the Critique of Capitalism -- 12 Indignation and Claims for Economic Sovereignty in Europe and the Americas: Renewing the Project of Control over Production -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index