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Towards a New Construction of Radical Democracy: A Exploration of a Road of Radicalization of Democracy beyond Capitalism
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급진민주주의론의 정립을 위한 한 탐색 : 자본주의를 넘어서는 '민주주의의 급진화' 경로에 대한 연구

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Hee-Yeon Cho (성공회대학교)
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Institute for Social Sciences, Gyeongsang National University MARXISM Vol.7 No.3 KCI Accredited Journals
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2010.8
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273 - 307 (35page)

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There have been two groups within the anti-dictatorship opposition camp in the 1970s and 1980s in Korea, that is democratic right and left. While the latter was composed of National Liberation, People’s Democracy, Leninist, neo-Marxists, progressive liberal, and other diverse groups then, it is now composed of progressive feminists, radical ecologists, autonomist, social democrats, old radical groups, etc. In this paper, the author argues that we are confronted with a new task, that is making a new alliance relation among different democratic left, on the one hand, and forming a new radical democratic popular front against the contradiction of the neo-liberal globalization and post-democratization. In addition, the author also argues that there is a need for a new radical democracy project(radicalization of democracy one) around such a new alliance and front.
In the wake of the modern civil revolution in the Western societies, democracy was founded, on the one hand, and capitalism led by the bourgeoisie, on the other hand. Thereafter, “a war between democracy and capitalism” started and developed itself. In South Korea, such war proceeded after the Great Democratic Struggle in 1987, which is parallel to the modern civil revolution in the Western societies. Radicalizing democracy in this war means that the people pursue making and coercing a human and social control mechanism on the capitalism itself and finally going over it, by way of extending radically the potential egalitarian ― albeit limited ― principle of democracy. It means that we should not look at democracy as the so-called “political shell” from a view of economic reductionism, and secure a eternally new space of struggle against capitalism and keep a narrow corridor to go beyond capitalism.
Based on such a discussion, the author analyzed the process of political change in Korea from a view of “the war between capitalism” and democracy. Especially the author focused on the period after the year 2008, in which the neo-conservative government emerged, which meant not only a change in the government power holder, but also a start of a new period of postdemcoratization under the global influence of the neo-liberal globalization.
In this new condition, the democratic left should form a new radical democratic war front politically and popularly against the contradiction coming from the neo-liberal globalization and post-democratization. This radical democratic political front includes two tasks: forming a new relation between the democratic left and the people, on the one hand, and making a new relation of solidarity among diverse groups of democratic left, on the other hand. Finally, the author argued that a “complex anti-neo-liberal politics” is needed in relation to the first task, and, “a new order of alliance within differences” in relation the second one.

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1. ‘민주주의 좌파’, ‘민주주의의 급진화’, 사회주의
2. 근대 사회에서의 자본주의와 민주주의, 그리고 ‘민주주의적 변혁 주의’
3. 한국에서 1987년 이후 민주화 체제하에서의 민주주의와 자본주의의 전쟁
4. ‘포스트-민주화’ 체제로의 이행과 민주주의 좌파에 대한 새로운 도전들
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