Democracy and Revolution. Notes on Politics, Essay and Heritage

The transition between the last civil-military dictatorship and the consolidation of the representative democratic regime inaugurated a new era whose effects on political militancy and the social sciences show that discussions about revolution were abandoned. While democracy as a concept, as a procedure, as an institutional framework and as a political regime assumed a leading role, especially in the field of political science, the idea of revolution was relegated to the past. In fact, it is within the critical and essayistic field of the social sciences that the debate about it persisted. In this paper, we take up some of the threads of that debate, and in two central figures of the critical intellectual field, Horacio Gonzalez and Nicolas Casullo, encouraged by the revitalisation in the intellectual field of the question of revolution and the anniversary of four decades of uninterrupted democracy.