O braço esquerdo do capital e a lógica onímoda do trabalho: gênese, função e análise imanente da política de Assistência Social no Brasil

Abstract

The Social Assistance Policy is studied in this work as an achievement of the working class and as an instrument that acts in benefit to the actual social order, the fundamental thesis here is the fact that the Social Assistance Policy supports the working class needs, but it is done in accordance with the set of interests of the dominant classes. In this perspective, the main point of this study takes place: performing a discussion of what are the bases of a Social Assistance Policy under the point of view of the logic of the Work. Using arguments in a form of debate about the constitution of this policy in the country, the limits inherent to the political and legal dimensions, we perform the analysis of the low itself – PNAS and LOAS. From the studies of the genesis and of the “social function” of the Social Assistance Policy, we present the immanent analysis of the Policy. The starting point is the statement that the Social Assistance Policy only has the potential to perform any tension over the social contradictions if it is seen from the logic of the Work. Otherwise, if we look for it from the logic based on the reproduction of the capitalist mode of production, it becomes urgent the need to elaborate a new Policy proposal.