CHAPTER XII
COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY LEGITIMACY.
To support the postulates of this constitutional mission, the words exposed in the work serve:
“PAPERS FOR PROGRESS”: Author: Jorge Botella. Topic number 39. July-August 2008 in which he cites the following:
“The citizen movement that opposes the validity or permanence of a revolutionary state is what is called counterrevolution, its social foundation is that every revolution alters the logical process of participation, representation and tolerance.
The revolutionary processes -which usually follow the alteration of the rights of the citizens- are supported in part by the deficiencies of the current State, but above all in the social anxiety that aspires to an improvement of their welfare. What usually happens next is that citizens, regardless of the achievement or failure of their welfare progress, perceive that all revolution is devoted to itself and is intransigent to evolve with social times and desires.
The more so as the revolution preaches the rectification of the common habits of the tradition, the more quickly the disillusion, because to establish new forms of behavior more often than not have an impact with previously established criteria of freedom. The essential axiom is that citizens do not aspire to be free, but simply to exercise their freedom.
The counterrevolution is born from the very moment in which a revolution triumphs and establishes as a form of State principles that aspire to remain unchanged, which undermines the social initiative so that the representative majorities permanently enjoy the mandate to do the State as in each moment the citizens want it.
The counterrevolution corresponds more to a social feeling than to an organized plot and that is why it progresses slowly in its political weight, even though a majority is the citizens who share the resistance to the constituted revolutionary power.
The counterrevolution that does not want to be an alternative of revolution, but a free State, more or less democratized according to its political culture, has to notice that the authority comes from the people, but not according to mass consideration, but as the sum of individual wills that save their permanent decision of representativeness. The ultimate objective of any natural counterrevolution is the configuration of representative structures as a guarantee of the exercise of freedom, not so much because they make all rights effective, but because rights are because citizens experience and demand them, enjoying a perspective of consolidation that is lacking in the doctrinaire revolutionary rigidity that idealizes rights not as the consequence of social relations, but as realizations of an idea of State on each individual.
Faced with revolutionary idealism, the counterrevolution is characterized by the lack of an ideology, and that is why it can bring together very different ways of understanding politics, which is the true reflection of freedom. The only dogma that is tolerated is that of not being dogmatic, not even in what the means of liberation should be. And is that what unites society, even over legal systems, is common sense. …………