Administração pública e previdência social no Brasil: desconstrução neoliberal, mutações objetivas e subjetivas e suas particularidades em Juiz de Fora

Abstract

This research aims to develop a theoretical proposal that allows to understand and explain the transformations in public administration and in Brazilian Social Welfare, from the late 1990s, and their impact on the work of the members of the National Institute of Social Security’s professional staff. This study is anchored in the Marxist tradition, with emphasis on the primacy of the principle of social totality. The development of reflections on State Administration, Bureaucracy, while expressions of class domination under spatial capital, is referenced in this theoretical framework. The use of the concept of Gramscian passive revolution, recurrent in the formation and development of the Brazilian state, represented an analytical tool able to show that by a neoliberal offensive, unlike revolutions "on the top", undertook a movement of reformation. The Master Plan for the Reform of the State Apparatus and the followers Constitutional Amendments provoked regression on the rights, established by the Constitution of 1988. The analyzes developed report still to the collection of documents and legislation that regulated the deconstruction of social policies and allowed the work in the public sector to be precarious. The empirical research, conducted through interviews with workers of the National Institute of Social Security in Juiz de Fora, reaped major benefits for thematizations on the mechanisms of capture of the workers’s subjectivity in times of manipulative capitalism. From this analytical framework can be inferred that any progress to rescue the concept of social security and its universal perspective, to improve rights, as well as the subordination of government to this perspective, involves the unveiling of the fetishized ways that obscure the logic of commodification of social protection. It also presupposes the demystification of management administration and its purpose of easing the bureaucracy, when in fact opens flanks to the appropriation of the public by the private, through the privatizations and partnerships. .