Barbarism, Capitalism and the Life of the Native People as a Possibility of Humanism

Abstract

It is inevitable to recognize the constant renewal of the idea of progress that rests on our way of living in the current era. Undoubtedly, this idea, and the human effort to achieve its realization, have come to modify the ways of life that we experience. Progress and its transformations have been entrenched, and supposedly favored, within a particular political system: capitalism. The idea of unlimited progress blends in with the current political system, and works for the purposes of the globalizing
ideology.

Capitalism and globalization, since its appearance as a political possibility, offered humanity a free, advanced, humane, and democratic scenario of life. It has been these aspirations that have motivated human beings to choose the political system of capitalism. However, such promises emanating from this political system have been disrupted, alienated, and manipulated to favor minority sectors of the world population.

In just a couple of centuries, the capitalist system abandoned its promises and led humanity to violent forms of government, to corrupt practices, to notorious inequalities that resulted in marginalization for the various forms of life of the population, converted to forms of reproduction of life (such as the industry focused on mere existence) that abandoned the purpose of freedom, abandoning the idea of democracy and participation, exchanging it for a representative democracy with oligarchic characteristics, but above all truncating the realization of a lifelong humanist construction (as a way of life) that involves each of the citizens attached to a nation with a capitalist and globalizing operation.

Given the described panorama recent studies of the ways of life of the original peoples appear, which have been marginalized to the
point of trying to achieve their disappearance, with the purpose of inserting their inhabitants into a global system. However, the progress that has been made in the studies of the ways of life of the original people has led us to conceive them as a resistance, and within their organizations lifelong characteristics have been recognized that help us think about a humanist practice and biased democracy as an alternative to the imbalance and barbarism that leads us to experience the capitalist economic-political system.