Current challenges in legal and political thought

Abstract

The article analyses the theoretical debates on equality and justice that represent the structural and institutional dimension of politics within the framework of a rigid constitutionality of fundamental rights as well as the changes in process to which law and politics are subject in Spain as a consequence of the globalization of economic production and of culture. The actions carried out by the Spanish government in recent years justify us in speaking about the return of the old socio-economic hierarchies and of the clear obstacles to the development of alternative legal-political thinking. For these reasons, the article defends the need to redefine the collective political subject (to construct a new us) and to develop a new model of the state which gives priority to solidarity against fear and security.