Desobediencia civil y poder político comunicativo1

Abstract

Civil disobedience comes from the transmutation of personal convictions to group interests; it  is a public and peaceful action that violates some legal norms. It is essentially political because, although it does not intend the structural change of a political and legal system, it seeks the amendment of certain laws or government measures. Civil disobedient individuals belong to the civic social fabric and express ethical visions that have been poorly interpreted in the legal order. If the relationship between the state and the civil field is far from being communicative because the state sphere does not grasp the dynamics of civil society, the fate of civil disobedience is its banishment from society. On the other hand, if state organization is at the civil society’s service, the action of the civil disobedient constitutes a moral alarm that warns and advocates changes in social life and the legislation that supports it.