According to the Argentine-Mexican philosopher Enrique Dussel, power is an exercise of life that resides in the people.
“The people are always the seat of power, even if it delegates, through the democratic principle, certain services. Those who command must obey by obeying. Being in power must mean dutiful political commitment, in which I listen to the other. In fact, leadership is real when the people consecrate it,” said the decolonial thinker.
According to researcher Enrique Dussel, decolonizing power not only means transforming inherited institutions. It also implies forming a political youth with another commitment to life other than modernity.
“A political system must have representation as a service and popular participation as the origin of initiatives (…) We must change subjectivities to form the new human being. We have to see how to get rid of the modernity values of the modern/colonial project. We have to question the system and start a new political order”, he emphasized.
In the same way, Dussel stressed the relevance to think of other forms of political management. “This means thinking with our head, from our entrails, from the “not-being” so as not to continue to be branch offices of modernity,” he stressed.
