Social Work in the 21st Century. A criticism of the discourse of brasileños et alii

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to share a plurality of reflections inspired by the LIII Congress of the Mexican Association of Social Work Schools and is supported by the author’s epistemological research. From an undeniable psychoanalytical and ethical-geopolitcal position, it focuses on non-dogmatic questions that serve as intellectual compasses, the principal of which refer to the abilities that the peoples and nations of our America are demanding of social workers. In the four sections of the article, the author presents a field of vision in which he observes and resignifies social work and the latinoiberoindoafrocaribeña reality. He also presents his self-critical doubts with no intention of reaching conclusions, much less definitive ones, this does not prevent him from conducting an implacable criticism of “The” reconceptualization and its ties with the neo-modern Marxist orthodoxy that the author denominates brasileños et alii.