La guerra del liberalismo: de Napoleón a la globalización

Abstract

From its origins as a political ideology in the years

of the French Revolution, liberalism has forged its

own path through balances of power in the

institutions, including within its dynamics all the

ideologies that have been developed in parallel.

However, the 70s of the twentieth century marked a

before and after in this history of historical

adaptation: The Great Western economies were

inserted in a logic of systematic dependence on the

public debt to maintain their welfare state, which,

together with the economic crises of the end of the

twentieth century, with special mention of the great

crisis initiated in 2007, has created a climate of

putting in question the whole liberal system from

the point of view of philosophical and economic

theory and of its viability in a globalized world. The

present paper will make a historical review of the

stages by which liberalism has passed until it

converted the so-called liberal state into hegemony,

as well as an analysis of how this last economic

crisis can be its greatest challenge till date.