Adam Smith: individuo, organización social y participación

Abstract

According to Hayek the democracy is only possible with a system of free market. If this is true, the western democracies are full of “aporias” and contradictions which end up in continual disil-lusions. Democracy has grown amongst capitalist societies which currently show these deficiencies such as a low participation of citiziens in the public life, the priority given to material goods rather than spiritual ones, etc. This article shows how these deficiencies are the central points in the system of Adam Smith’s free market, the father of the capitalist system.