Crítica à desconstrução da política na pós-modernidade

Abstract

The outbreak of political protests requesting several social changes in the world in the past and more recently in Brazil raises the cry of social unrest and challenges the political configuration aiming at solving latent conflicts and contradictions found in the basic structure of society. On the whole, the national political structure rests on the comfortable model of democracy which is carried out in a strictly electoral base. The type of political representation offered by this feature takes places solely in the act of casting the vote, and it is the resulting configuration of union tied by consensus, distribution and alternation of political power among political parties as seen by changing jobs and faces during division of power posts. Pressed by the power issuing from capital and people’s interests, political activity is fired by a paradoxical urgency of releasing population’s interests including reflections, debates and prospects, or, conversely, upholding and running against social interests, in this case promoting faithfully the capital agenda. Running out of this deadlock does not include easy solutions. Besides, mere political struggle will not be enough to respond to those issues. The state as a leading economic development agent and serving as the major material basis giving support to the sociometabolic system of capital will always act in defense of capital leaving very little space to the accomplishment of actual conquests for the working class promised by politicians. It is within this configuration that this work will try to understand the role of politics in social practice. To this end, it is studied, in spite of its insertion within a perspective of contradictions among social classes, the supplanting of labor by capital as a determining factor in the logic that presides over social relations, as it is intended here to debate the output of the so-called “post-modern condition” within the several dimensions of daily life and current political activity. In face of its influence in the areas of knowledge and culture it will be treated here according to its political rhetoric that insists on defacing legitimate gains of the social subject by fragmentation and dissolution. The following authors are referred here as contributing to this investigation: Mészáros (2009, 2007, 2004), Marx (2008, 1964, 1976), Jameson (1996), Anderson (1999) and Lyotard (2009).