Participative Democracy and the Alternative National Project of Morena in Mexico

Abstract

This chapter argues that the prevalence of a true liberal and representative democracy in Mexico is greatly obstructed by authoritarian atavisms constructed in the country during the twentieth century and by neoliberal accumulation; also, that it does not escape the crisis of neoliberalism that is affecting the entire world. A nascent anti-neoliberal force has been struggling to make this democracy a reality, and, furthermore, to deepen it and render it a participative democracy: the Morena party-movement. This force owes its popularity and expansion to an imaginary that originates from the Mexican revolution and is therefore an expression of the national-popular.