Política nacional de assistência social: uma avaliação política

Abstract

This paper aims to make a political evaluation of the National Social Assistance through a critical reading of legal texts. Accordingly, we carried out a theoretical foundation based in the discussion of the different conceptions of state found in the classical social theory and the critical social theory, we also made a discussion of management as domination, appropriating of the debate about the bureaucracy present in Max Weber and other authors. In the next moment, we treat the historical trajectory of social assistance in Brazil, featuring the capitalist dynamics as well as the characteristics of management and social policy, and the peculiarity of social welfare in each period. Conducted previous studies, we established essential categories to a political evaluation of the national policy of social assistence, which are: Conception of State and Social Policy, as well Public Management. In that way, we pulled out from the texts categories and concepts that we consider most relevant in the political and ideological orientation, to make a political appraisal of national policy of social assistance. Finally, we note that the national social policy approaches the democratic social policy, progressive leaving a legacy for Brazilian society in the context of social policy, breaking with the traditional domination and charitable, that are historically present in the Brazilian social assistance, while still allowing go beyond, because the national policy support and open spaces that need to be used by the working class in order to broaden the conception of welfare, its role and focus, and to force the deepening and universality of rights.