Experimentalism and institutional alternatives: notes on collective action in Mihail Manoilescu, Oliveira Vianna and Mangabeira Unger

Abstract

This research takes panoramically authors affiliated to political experimentation and the institutional alternative proposals, critically re-reading the thoughts of Mihail Manoilescu, Oliveira Vianna and Mangabeira Unger with concern the collective action class and / or economic category, especially corporatist nature, qua components of (re)building new political regimes. We suggest the following hypotheses: (i) the propositions of the first two authors, despite suggesting inventive structural changes, would be limited from the point of view of maximizing economic and social equity, which would be an essential factor in democratic construction; (ii) this connection between democracy and economic equity would be constructed by our contemporary, Unger. We conclude that the three intellectuals criticized the political and economic liberalism presenting pari passu, explicit contents and institutionally experimentalists in their respective and different historical scenarios.