Democracy and Class Struggle in the Current Metabolic Social Order of Capital

Authors

  • Fernando Gaudereto Lamas Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII - Juiz de Fora
  • Ednéia Alves de Oliveira Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1414-49802017.00100012

Abstract

This article analyzes the relationship between democracy and the current stage of capitalist accumulation, a moment in which democracy is nothing but mere rhetorical discourse, something that is naturalized, without critical reflection, a mere bourgeois phraseology to justify greater action of the state and the institutionalization of legal and coercive apparatuses. It discusses how economic and political groups that control the current political system share some of the power that they currently utilize, given that this sharing implies an alteration of the very dynamics of capital accumulation.

Author Biographies

Fernando Gaudereto Lamas, Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII - Juiz de Fora

Graduado em História (1997) pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Mestre em História (2005) pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Doutorando em História pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), professor do Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)

Ednéia Alves de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)

Doutora em Serviço Social pela Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) e professora da Faculdade de Serviço Social da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF).

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Published

2017-03-17

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2017): Antonio Gramsci

Section

Open-themed space

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