Indignazione democratica: da pazienti ad attori morali. Contro la presunzione d'impotenza

The paper aims to examine the risks linked with the so called victimizing paradigm, which usually attributes the features of passivity and powerlessness to victims of injustices. The victimizing paradigm is one of the main ideological trajectories of neoliberalism: beyond providing powerful people the opportunity to self-representing as presumed victims of injustice, neoliberalism tries to responsibilize real victims of injustice about their social conditions. In order to avoid such tendencies, the article presents the main aspects of a negative theory of justice, which tries to give back real victims of injustice the power to transform asymmetrical relations of power within which they are involved.