"It is a unique moment for we can. OR it takes or loses"

The philosopher Ricardo Forster, of 57 years, is one of the most important argentine intellectuals of the practical. And it is also one of the few voices in South America who the leaders of the spanish training we can listen with greater attention. The Government appointed him in june secretary of Strategic Coordination for the National Thought. That name generated much suspicion in the media more critical of the Government. Forster says, however, that since its secretariat is attempting to "create the conditions for a dialog that does not evade differences".

Forster is very familiar with the culture and European politics. Their bedside philosophers are Benjamin and Adorno. Now has just published with the editorial Culture Fund of the book The voyage of the abyss. Evil and modernity in Walter Benjamin. For a long time I travel almost every year to Spain. Believes that we can appeal to populism as "an act of provocation", to differentiate it from the other political formations. "And the way they found to differentiate yourself is your reading of some South American forms of populism and, above all, of the latest generation of populism. I think they are profoundly democratic in its reading of the Spanish society. They represent a younger generation, but displeased with the covenant that led to a depoliticization and a deep economic crisis, institutional and social. Take the policy of the jacket".

Response. One is that there is nothing more healthy for democracy that the politicization. Another, that it is possible to climb out of paradigms that appear untouchable. In the Argentina of the end of the nineties the idea of globalization, the demise of the State, the privatization and the absolute reign of the market seemed untouchable for progressive and liberal. But it was possible to change it, rebuild an important role of the State in the economic field. Possible contest was a hegemony. And hence also for the search of a new regional geopolitical moment that has as the key strategic alliance with Brazil, Mercosur, Unasur. Have them read this experience. And they don't care much support a policy that it is not smothered by a euro dominated primarily by Germany.