Este artículo examina el caso emblemático del uso del discurso de la democracia como un componente clave de las estrategias de formación de identidad de la derecha venezolana. Como parte de su competición por la hegemonía, tras el surgimiento del proyecto político del chavismo, el artículo examina la narrativa de identidad de la oposición en Venezuela a partir de entrevistas realizadas en 2016 a integrantes venezolanos pertenecientes a este espectro político. El caso venezolano revela que el discurso de la democracia no solo facilita la coalición y movilización de individuos sin una supuesta articulación de referentes ideológicos de izquierda o derecha, sino que también ayuda a prevenir cambios del orden social existente.
To claim that we do not have languages and tongues of our own and that we are forever rendered the misrepresented and disavowed Other by Speech is a claim that is intelligible only within the onto-epistemological terms and containments of (non)being and (un)knowing of Whiteness. We are not, therefore, in the collective co-weaving of this special edition and beyond tethered to deconstruction as critique which whilst demonstrates how we are rendered Other, nevertheless reinforces our muteness. Instead, we read, (t)race and (w)rite any deconstruction not from the abstract coloniality of an (un)knowing-(non)being Subject of modern/colonial (un)reason but from the presence/present of survivance and dignity in relation. Thus, our answer to our originary question out of which this special issue emerged is a resounding Yes. From this presence/present of survivance and dignity become legible and intelligible a different set of questions foregrounded within the reality of political-epistemological difference (against and beyond Whiteness) in the plural.
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