Desemprego estrutural no contexto do capitalismo global e o ato político-educacional, segundo Slavoj Zizek

Abstract

This essay aims at evaluating the current situation of structural unemployment that threatens the existence of individuals, if one considers the configuration of contemporary life, from an approach that includes a major event such as a "pseudo-natural catastrophe", resulting from the ingrained violence of the systemic power of capital as it reveals itself according to its various forms. We can consider that under the yoke of contemporary capitalism, the work is done as a negative experience for those who work. Indeed, this immanent dynamics of the capitalist world market turns productive workers in disposable workers or a by-product of a system of commodities. For this analysis, we resorted to Žižek‟s reflections (2012ab) when he develops a critical analysis involving major issues regarding this model of society affected by human subjectivity, in the current historical conjuncture. The methodology we tread finds support in the literature of the so-called theoretical and bibliographical study that is the main source of analysis from which we have chosen as theoretical guidance the following works: "The Year of Dreaming Dangerously" (2012a), "Living in the End Times" (2012b) and “First as Tragedy, then as Farce” (2011). In short, we can ensure that in the current moment the non-job is a feature that supports the system as such, because what it shows is that besides requiring workers, it produces a surplus, that is, a “reserve force” guaranteed by the cycling of the non-work, which led Žižek to characterize this "new" structural unemployment as a form of exploitation, since only in a capitalist configuration this kind of abuse appears as a natural human feature.