Machiavelli, Pandemic and the modern political-economic structure

Abstract

In this brief article, we will argue that the Covid-19 pandemic, like others in human history, laid bare the foundations of the modern political-economic structure. We will argue that such bases are based on two pillars, a political notion of 'State', the peak of human organization, and a rationalist, technical and productive conception, which promulgates the possibility of responding to any crisis that arises in society. As a counterpoint to this structure, we will present the Machiavellian theory, which points to an indelible relationship between politics and the natural factor, nature and society. In this theory, with its own anthropological conception, the needs imposed by nature in the face of human action are decisive for thinking about the political construction itself. As a result, we will consider it necessary to rethink the modern political-economic structure in its alleged myths of undeniable political advancement, through the 'State', and an unshakable rational basis, mainly technical-productive, returning to the place of importance of the natural factor for the constitution of a more 'human' society.