A contrarreforma gerencial e a dogmática da propriedade privada: uma avaliação política do marco regulatório do saneamento básico brasileiro

Abstract

This study aims to carry out a political review of the new Brazilian Sanitation Regulatory Framework, operated through the publication of the Law nº 14.026/2020, which amended the Law nº 11,445/2007 and represented another attempt to privatize the sanitation sector in the country and, consequently, also privatize water, common and essential to social reproduction. In order to do so, a theoretical-methodological course was carried out, starting from the construction of a overview of the great crisis of capitalist production that began in the 1970s and culminated in the present time of capital accumulation, even more speculative and expropriatory. From this overview, it was possible to analyze the changes that took place as a result of the crisis in the Brazilian public administration, especially during the government of former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, with the “Master Plan for Reform of the State”, that led the country to the privatization of strategic economic sectors and introduced institutional changes that are followed and unquestioned to these days. With all these concepts established, the political review of sanitation policy in Brazil was carried out, in order to demonstrate that its construction comes from a whole historical context of expropriations and violations of the rights of the working class, making water yet another profitable financial asset for capital.