“Sufragio efectivo, no reelección”?

No: (por el sufragio efectivo) sí a la “reelección legislativa inmediata” (RLI). México necesita una auténtica Reforma del Estado y en ella no puede faltar, no debería faltar, la RLI -sin que sea la panacea ni sea siempre y totalmente aproblemática (dejen de creer que todo puede ser perfecto y que si algo no lo va a ser es mejor hacerlo a un lado! Nada es ni va a ser perfecto... No sean brutos, se están hundiendo en un conservadurismo irracional! Observen, estudien, piensen!).
Desde mi perspectiva, hay tres grandes puntos a tratar dentro de los debates presentes sobre la RLI: 1) las confusiones sobre su significado democrático, asociadas al manejo de la literalidad, y los efectos de las mismas; 2) las objeciones dizque históricas para un caso –dicen- “excepcional” como el mexicano y las surgidas de problemas –e intereses- electorales actuales; 3) el diseño institucional. He tratado analíticamente los tres desde hace bastante tiempo, y he publicado, dentro y fuera de la academia, también sobre los tres (véanse las revistas Este País, Estudios de Política y Sociedad y DATAMEX, por ejemplo). En este momento me interesa sobre todo, es decir, en primer lugar, el punto 1 (si bien todos pueden relacionarse entre sí de no pocas maneras), por lo que vuelvo a compartir un texto que hace no mucho tiempo publiqué en el diario El Universal y que prácticamente resume mi argumento al respecto, tomando en cuenta la situación nacional: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/editoriales/45121.html.

Sí a la “reelección legislativa inmediata”.
No podemos desaprovechar la oportunidad de argumentar más y mejor. Hay que hacerlo sobre los tres puntos mencionados. No debemos permitir que, otra vez, la discusión termine “ganada” por la manipulación, la superficialidad, los humores, la cerrazón, la grilla, la timidez, y que, entonces, la consolidación/mejora de nuestra democracia siga alejándose.
Sí a la “reelección legislativa inmediata”.

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*Y sobre la reelección presidencial? No te confundas, lector; pon atención, lee bien. Este post NO es sobre reelección presidencial alguna.

Por Martínez, Camus, y Reyes

“Si cuidas el lenguaje, la ética viene en consonancia, porque la responsabilidad empieza por la herramienta que manejas". Tomás Eloy Martínez.

“El rebelde no humilla a nadie”: “reclama para todos la libertad que reivindica para sí mismo, y prohíbe a todos la que él rechaza”. Albert Camus.

“La única manera de ser provechosamente nacional es sentirse orgullosamente universal”. Alfonso Reyes.

Revolucionarios? Nota del gran Tony Judt

http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/381953115/revolutionaries

“I grew up in an age of prosperity, security, and comfort—and therefore, turning twenty in 1968, I rebelled. Like so many baby boomers, I conformed in my nonconformity”.

“Heading back into town, I found myself trotting alongside a uniformed policeman assigned to monitor the crowd. We looked at each other. “How do you think the demonstration went?” I asked him. Taking the question in stride—finding in it nothing extraordinary—he replied: “Oh I think it went quite well, Sir”.

“But in Germany, politics was about sex—and sex very largely about politics. I was amazed to discover, while visiting a German student collective (all the German students I knew seemed to live in communes, sharing large old apartments and each other’s partners), that my contemporaries in the Bundesrepublik really believed their own rhetoric. A rigorously complex-free approach to casual intercourse was, they explained, the best way to rid oneself of any illusions about American imperialism—and represented a therapeutic purging of their parents’ Nazi heritage, characterized as repressed sexuality masquerading as nationalist machismo.
The notion that a twenty-year-old in Western Europe might exorcise his parents’ guilt by stripping himself (and his partner) of clothes and inhibitions—metaphorically casting off the symbols of repressive tolerance—struck my empirical English leftism as somewhat suspicious. How fortunate that anti-Nazism required—indeed, was defined by—serial orgasm. But on reflection, who was I to complain? A Cambridge student whose political universe was bounded by deferential policemen and the clean conscience of a victorious, unoccupied country was perhaps ill-placed to assess other peoples’ purgative strategies”.

“Attracted to revolution? Then why not go to Prague, unquestionably the most exciting place in Europe at that time? Or Warsaw, where my youthful contemporaries were risking expulsion, exile, and prison for their ideas and ideals?”

“What does it tell us of the delusions of May 1968 that I cannot recall a single allusion to the Prague Spring, much less the Polish student uprising, in all of our earnest radical debates? Had we been less parochial (at forty years’ distance, the level of intensity with which we could discuss the injustice of college gate hours is a little difficult to convey), we might have left a more enduring mark”.

“Looking back, I can’t help feeling we missed the boat. Marxists? Then why weren’t we in Warsaw debating the last shards of Communist revisionism with the great Leszek Kolakowski and his students? Rebels? In what cause? At what price? Even those few brave souls of my acquaintance who were unfortunate enough to spend a night in jail were usually home in time for lunch. What did we know of the courage it took to withstand weeks of interrogation in Warsaw prisons, followed by jail sentences of one, two, or three years for students who had dared to demand the things we took for granted?
For all our grandstanding theories of history, then, we failed to notice one of its seminal turning points. It was in Prague and Warsaw, in those summer months of 1968, that Marxism ran itself into the ground. It was the student rebels of Central Europe who went on to undermine, discredit, and overthrow not just a couple of dilapidated Communist regimes but the very Communist idea itself. Had we cared a little more about the fate of ideas we tossed around so glibly, we might have paid greater attention to the actions and opinions of those who had been brought up in their shadow”.