Constructivism (political)

The constructivism is an attitude Politique definite and denounced by liberal which proclaims that the public choices must be guided by the will to build a certain type of company, and not by the immediate wellbeing of the individuals.

The concept of constructivism is found mainly at Friedrich Hayek and is used to qualify any mode which assigns to the whole company a collective goal which would be achieved by average policies, in general associated with a scientistic design , with the necessary contempt of the individual who must yield there.

It marked the whole beginnings of the Russian Revolution, and an echo is evoked by it in the very last scene of the film Doctor Jivago. It is noticed in particular that in films carried out at this period in Russia, it is not any more question of the whole of alienation of the worker by the assembly line. This one is shown on the contrary happy of what it produces, and which has of the direction - although he makes the same thing altogether, under the same conditions, in the same way and with the same schedules as before the Revolution.

Quotation

The constructivist attitude consists in thinking that one can " construire" a company according to its own wishes, which one can lead it as it would be done any machine. However, among the constructivists, one can distinguish from the conservatives who wish to maintain the company such as it is and of the reformists who wish on the contrary to modify it. It would be in addition erroneous to necessarily place the Conservatisme on the right and to see reformists in all Socialiste. Indeed, in a system as largely collectivist as the French system, they are very often the Socialists who are preserving, for example when they are declared in favor of the maintenance of the acquired advantages, when they fight for the defense of the Social security or defend the public services with the Frenchwoman . By opposition, the liberal is, according to the proper terms of Friedrich Hayek, that which lets make the change, even if one cannot envisage where it will lead . It implies, consequently, a confidence in the capacities of the people to be adapted continuously to conditions changeantes and always unforeseeable. However, it is not excessive to say that in France, at least in the political universe, practically everyone is constructivist. According to its moods, its prejudices, its level of information or the direction of its own interests, each one will make an effort is to maintain what exists, that is to say contrary to modifying it in a way in conformity with its own wishes. (...) It results from it obviously an extreme politization from the life which strongly the famous topic of the " translates; all is politique". However, nothing is political by nature, but all becomes it since the approach constructivist is dominant. (Saline Pascal, Liberalism , Odile Jacob, Paris, 2000, p. 25.)

The philosophers did nothing but interpret the world in various ways, it now acts to transform it Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach (1845)

See too

Individualism

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