Anticapitalismo e serviço social

Abstract

This thesis has as its object the relationship between Anti-capitalism and Social Work. The general objective was to analyze anti-capitalism in its multiple meanings and expressions in the historicity of Brazilian Social Work. And the specific objectives sought to analyze continuities, ruptures and forms of updating anti-capitalism in the face of the theoretical-political tasks of overcoming social inequalities in the face of capitalist crises. These objectives were constructed from the analysis of the social reality that presents, especially in the current capitalist stage, increasingly destructive levels of the possibilities of life and human existence, demanding, for the sake of survival and resistance, anticapitalist struggles (against capitalism), on the part of subjects who are indignant in the face of the inequality sustained by exploitation and oppression of this mode of production. To achieve these objectives, theoretical and bibliographic research was developed, with emphasis on works of reference authors of classical and contemporary thought, bearers of anti-capitalist social worldviews in their different strands. As a documentary source, to illustrate the anti-capitalist expressions in Social Work, the political-organizational dimension assumed by the Cfess-Cress group was chosen, specifically, with analyses of the graphic pieces elaborated in the development of the campaigns of the last two trienniums, namely: the Management Campaign of the triennium 2017-2020 "Social Workers in the Fight against Racism"; and the 2020-2023 triennial Campaign "We, women, social workers of struggle!", which bring respectively the ethnic-racial and sex/gender debate as an agenda of struggle committed to the professional Ethical-Political Project. At the end, the concluding notes express the stage and understanding of the object that we have been able to achieve, while announcing new questions for the possibility of further research. The "thesis of the thesis" was evidenced for this moment of the investigation, explaining that anti-capitalism is expressed as a social vision of the world in Brazilian Social Work at different moments of its historical trajectory, more specifically in the slope intention of rupture, and under varied inspirations, but it is not configured as a mass tendency of the professional category nor is it evident in the various socio-occupational spaces. In contemporaneity, in the legacy of permanent search for rupture with conservative thought, the professional project of Social Work updates its adherence to this social vision of the world when it proposes theoretical-political tasks to overcome social inequalities, which go deeper with the structural crises of capitalism