Democracy and Social Rights: History and Implications for Brazilian Educational Policies

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Doracy Dias Aguiar de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Carvalho, Roberto Francisco de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Katálysis (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/katalysis/article/view/1982-02592019v22n3p457

This article discusses democracy within the scope of the capitalist society, using theoretical and documentary research. The study sought to build concepts around the limits of substantive, socialist, and representative liberal democracy. It shows some implications of liberal democracy for Brazilian social rights and public policies that have been dismantled by neoliberal counter-reforms, such as the policies on education. The study also exposes the need to protect national-popular education, capable of contributing to the construction of substantive democracy and new sociability, which implies in relations of equality and coordination between politics and economy from the perspective of human emancipation.