Democracia como Antiutopia

The aim of the article is to study conceptions of democracy as anti-utopia. We intend toobserve the state of relations established between citizens and the political power to show how theseversions lower the expectations about the promises of good government or political fictions. It is notan intention of this article the enumeration of the distinct models of contemporary democracies. Byhighlighting two of them, we intend to differentiate them from the ideal political fictions and utopianmodels. In democracy, the conduction of political power and the ordering of the social order ischaracterized by constant interruptions and maladjustments. As a form of resistance to the dominationof political power over citizens or assuming the pertinence of conflicts, the anti-utopian democraciesmove themselves away from the ideal of a reconciled and static society. In them, changes, deadlocksand the overcoming of challenges do not necessarily result in advances or definitive setbacks, whichwould correspond to a teleological path towards overcoming clashes or to an accumulation of resultsfrom the past aimed at the transition to the definitive redemption of political faults. We start from thefollowing question: in what sense can democracy, as a form of social order and structure of politicalpower, be considered an anti-utopian model? Our hypothesis is that the conceptions studied in thearticle advocate for a philosophical-political realism, presenting democracy as a political experience thatdemands the permanent creation of liberty.