ECUADOR TODAY THE LIGHT OF THE THOUGHT OF BISHOP PROAÑO BISHOP OF INDIANS (Part II)
2. The Revolution citizen, to be truly revolutionary, can not have other bases that all the subordinate classes and all social groups, directly or indirectly suffer from the logic of capitalism, such as women victims of privatization of water, health, education or the Indians losing their land, their independence, their culture. Therefore, such a project can not be taken by actors who do not share. Recent events are a chance to make more clearly the option left. The test showed the willingness destructive blow to the right and no political actor disagrees with the objectives and how they would get to be a member of the key organs of state. Citizen's revolution will never be considered theirs by right, even with political concessions.
3. The State Building can not be clearly or appliance in the hands of the traditional oligarchy or the capitalist bourgeoisie, or a means for economic advancement through corruption, but neither can it be a centralized state (Jacobin). The institutionalization of a state capable of being the instrument of the revolutionary goals of the revolution citizen requires real political participation mechanisms. Not possible with the enactment of legislation with a veto and objections of the President against social groups who felt alienated (and sometimes attacked) after months of negotiations in Congress. The accumulation of these cases can mean a real danger to the national political process, especially when it involves significant groups of students, teachers, academics, indigenous, union workers and the public sector. As Samir Amin has written: "If left to develop the contradiction between popular and state agencies, advances are likely to be defeated" (Samir Amin, 2005)
To meet the right, not good enough to implement solutions theoretically and politically imposed, but to join forces in a process popular educator. That is the way forward in sensitive fields, such as the land issue, economic solidarity, participatory democracy, the plurality, without fear of blows on the right. Finally, the institutionalization of the rule calls for continuity in the roles and a presidential style of convergence of all the forces of change. As the author mentioned, that means "to strengthen the complementary nature of the progress made possible the people, the liberation of the nation and the achievements of state power" (Samir Amin, ibid.)
Transition To perform this task, the concept of transition is a useful tool because it allows both to save the radicalism of the goals and accept the political reality. However to be operational in a process of real change, there are two conditions. First, a concession can not be right, but a recognition of the limits in time, the technical possibility of implementation and the existing balance of social forces. Secondly, the content must be the result of an ongoing dialogue between the social forces (movements, a socially and politically organized people) and the State. A title for example in politics (oil, gas, mining), where Ecuador has been a historical example (the Yasuni), one must recognize the serious ecological and social damage of this activity while you can not ask the country to cease from day to day activity, source of income for the state. The transition could be defined by 4 points:
(1) reorient the country's economy based on domestic needs rather than export extractive (that's the long term)
(2) establishing strict environmental regulations (environmental protection , water use, etc.) and social (the right of indigenous communities peasant and Afro-Ecuadorian, working conditions, etc.).
(3) require payment of the price of consumer standards of these resources and
(4) require the development of international law to avoid the effect of "advantages compare. "
The same concept can be applied to other sectors of economic, social and cultural rights. Conclusions
may seem paradoxical to say, but the coup was successful, in fact, despite the lack of strategy on the right. The left is divided, social discontent is wide, Alianza Pais is more identified with a person, and President more isolated, despite massive support from people who do not want more illegal. Armed Forces, who defended the legitimacy of power output as political referees, which is not their normal role in the rule of law. All this means a strengthening of the right.
However, this situation can also be an opportunity for a new stage for civic revolution: redefining its objectives, not as social - democratic commitments, but as a critical project for the very logic of capitalism to achieve not growth, but the good life; reorientation of its methods to a broad-based popular process, institutionalization of a democratic state multinational, and participatory. Thought of Monsignor
Proaño in these perspectives, it is an important asset: his social analysis, its guidelines for a new society, their views on the participation and ultimately their Christian faith as a source of inspiration for a civic revolution
• Presentation at the First International Meeting in Honor of thought and action of Bishop Proaño, Riobamba, October 21, 2010. Bibliography
Samir Amin, La Trajectoire du capitalisme historique, (manuscript) 2005
BELLINI Luciano (ed.) Words of Liberation - Speeches and Homily Monsignor Leonidas Proaño (1985-1987), Abya Yala, Quito, 2009
GAVILANES CASTLE, Luis María, Monsena Leonidas Proaño and liberating prophetic mission in the Church of Latin America, Quito, without ed, 1992