ABSTRACT
Associated with peace is democracy — its construction, about which everybody talks and for which all Salvadoran political sectors are committed to struggle. Thus, at the end of 1983, the Movimiento Unitario Sindical y Gremial de El Salvador was formed, integrating union and guild organizations that represented distinct political orientations. The demand for democracy in El Salvador has been so profound that, as has been affirmed in the cases of Eastern Europe, the meaning of democracy has been broadened beyond political parliamentary democracy and the economic policies of the state to include the democratization of civil society itself. Liberal democracy itself, as a form of organizing the economy and society, historically has assumed different forms. Liberal democracy, apart from being limited to the political-institutional sphere and lacking an integral social dimension, has as its axis a prefixed set of norms that guides the organization of the economy and society.
