Postmodernisme i moviments socials

Abstract

The Postmodern reflexive strategy (from authors like Ly o t a rd, Foucault, Derrida or Baudrillard) has consequences on social movements with an emancipatorian character which within an ideological framework defend an antiauthoritarian alternative position by following left wing ideas. On the one hand, from our point of view, postmod ern reflexive strategy is the intellectual trend based on irrationality which announce the end of the emancipatory project of Modernity. On the other hand, through a deep analysis of the postmodern perspective, it is possible to clarify that alternatives to the criticized situations are not given; furtherm o re, it is refused any attempt to define alternatives as it is typical in Modernity. Nowadays, this strategy accomplishes consciously with the destruction of any possibility to change which are off e red by social movements when they try to radicalize democracy by introducing themselves in the left wing ideas.