Da formulação dos conceitos aos reforços dos preconceitos

Abstract

This article aims to analyze, among many other concepts, those of superiority and inferiority related to the processes of legitimation of the subordination between natives and Europeans, from a Latin American historical process. To this end, the essay here examines the ideological, therefore, bourgeois-liberal character of expropriation of capital and its perverse logic which, at times, also assumes the value of religious belief. It is in view of this picture that the ideology of superiority found, for example, in the war apparatus military strategies of the Spanish, Portuguese, English and French colonizers reinforcing in the consciousness of native and African peoples as a hegemonic concept the expression of a universal “truth”. The formulation of this concept is still noticeable today (2018) in politics, education, schools, university and labor relations. This point of view presents itself as a conception of the world and remains petrified in consciousness, including the victims of that conception. The overcoming of this conception may begin when this economic system is overcome, in a dialectical relationship between the production of human existence, as well as in relation to the new economic policies and the formulation of new socio-cultural relations that surpasses the imperative conception of subservience.