Podemos attacks the "meritocratic ideology" that generates "legitimating" discourses of privilege and inequality

MADRID, 5 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The state co-spokesperson for Podemos, Javier Sánchez Serna, has criticized that "meritocratic ideology" denotes "legitimating" speeches of "privileged" positions in order not to address the true causes of inequality.

However, the leader of the purple formation has indicated that "it is not about banishing merit, but rather the belief that merit and the positions that one climbs in society are the result of the sole effort of an individual, because, just like the causes of success are individualized, those of failure also".

This is how he transferred it during his speech at a round table dedicated to education in the framework of the 'Autumn Uni', the forum for the ideological rearmament of training that unfolds this Saturday.

During his speech, he stressed that a kind of "meritocratic hope" has been installed in democratic societies, where it is believed that "inequality is based more on merit and individual work, than on kinship, income and inheritance ".

At this point, he has lashed out at the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and at some recent statements about teaching, because who "speaks of the failure of education in Spain and says that the problem is that young people have everything but they lack a culture of effort, he speaks from a privileged position".

He also added that "all societies generate discourses that legitimize positions of privilege and the exercise of power. There have been justifications of a divine nature, by blood, by age and supposedly being wiser."

The purple deputy explained that "current society also has its device that naturalizes inequalities" and that "meritocratic ideology does not ignore that everyone does not start from the same point", but leaves the overcoming of obstacles to elements solely of individual will .

In the case of education, Sánchez stressed that "a great divergence has been produced between the favored classes and the rest, which shows a "segregation of the elites", through private educational centers of all kinds, which has weakened the shared democratic experience with the rest of the population".