Educação e política para além da lógica do capital

Abstract

The structural elements of capitalist accumulation, in the general context of contemporary societies, do not present anything essentially new. The equation that defines, organizes and breed the sociability model of capital has not changed, on the contrary, the capitalist system intensified its hunger for appreciation of value. In the current scenario which exploits for profit social relations and individuals and exacerbates marginalization and violence, to think about the possibility of breaking with standards of such encompassing force almost sounds like an apology to the impossible. Stunned, we see hard-won social rights fall to the ground without a good chance of personal miracles that would reverse the harmful effects of antagonistic mediation of the capital system over labor in times of a structural crisis. Contrary to several skeptical forecasts, the Hungarian philosopher, István Mészáros, sees how to break with the dehumanizing logic imposed by the socio-metabolism of capital starting with restructuring society. In this article, the aim is to highlight a potential mediation that would help fight the alienating hegemony of capital, such as: a radical approach, by which clear anti-bourgeois politics would give back to the social basis the power to control and decide from which the working class has always been maintained away; and education, which in spite of being kept hostage of the marketing power that classifies it as an inexhaustible field of income for capital and voice the discourse of liberal citizenship, is indeed a tool that shapes equality in terms of equal opportunities, when properly engaged in the formative processes that develop in human society, at work, in social movements, in institutions and cultural events, in short, an invaluable social practice capable to support formation/self-formation of critical subjects for the sake of human and social emancipation.