민주주의와 자유의 양립가능성으로서의 경제 민주화 - 토크빌과 달의 맥락에서

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to identify that the meaning of economic democracy consists of compatibility between democracy and liberty through examining the arguments on democracy of two democrats, Alexis de Tocqueville and Robert Dahl. To do this, this article matters that the use of the concept of economic democracy in Korea is divided by two, which are based on a dichotomy between the state and the economy and which continues since Korean Third Republic. And it shows that the dichotomy between the state and the economy corresponds to the dichotomy between political democracy and liberty. Tocqueville argues that political democracy threats people’s liberty because democracy needs equality, equality makes atomization of an individual, and atomization permits despotism, but he suggests compatibility between democracy and liberty as a solution though. Dahl accepts Tocquville’s problem posing on the conflicts between democracy and liberty, but by reversed way he shows that liberty threats democracy because liberty of property makes inequality, economic power of property owner including companies threats economic weakers’ democracy and liberty. Dahl argues that right of liberty of property cannot be justified, democratic self-government over liberty of property can be justified because democracy extends to liberty of property, and argues that economic democracy is democratization of companies.