Communalisme andin et hétéronomie sans servitude: Deux hypothèses pour penser la liberté dans son rapport à la terre au-delà du principe d’autonomie

This text analyses the relationship between the concept of freedom and the land. It problematizes the principle of autonomy, as the hegemonic understanding of freedom in Western societies, since it presupposes an ontology of property, thus a subject-object relationship to the land. In this perspective, the category of “thing” seems to capture the concept of land transforming it into an inanimate object. By analyzing the politic economy of Andean societies with collective access to the land, we argue that the relationship to the land is not to be considered in terms of property but in terms of a principle of harmony. Our hypothesis is that this principle of harmony is to be considered as the principle that gives conceptual solidity to Safatle’s hypothesis of freedom as heteronomy without servitude.