The first quarter of the 21st century has been witnessing a historical conjuncture in which the republican moment in the world is coming to a close. Neoliberal governance and new neoliberal forms of citizenship impose their existence by eroding republican institutions. Even the most robust republican traditions are suffering from this erosion. In this process of erosion of equality and freedom, it has become necessary to define the republic with new forms of political action. Evidently, republican institutions need to develop procedures to re-strengthen social bonds in the face of neoliberal imposition. The production of new modes of res publica and ranges of meaning requires the perception of the republic not only as a regime but also as a political form. Beyond being a state ideology, the republic is the sum of interventions that defend the openness and normativity of the sphere of political action against inequitable relations. Therefore, republics demand democracy through which public conflicts are not closed but left open. It is clear from the current political and social pathologies of our time that the Earth needs a new republican moment to solve its current problems.
