A legalização da classe trabalhadora brasileira na perspectiva de Bernard Edelman

Abstract

This article is an approach to the work of Bernard Edelman – The Legalization of the Working Class – which analyses labor rights as a shrewd way found by capital to neutralize the class struggle. The analysis is based on the implementation of social rights in Brazil by Vargas. Indeed, the whole framework of the ideology – externalized by social experts – had the class struggle as an evil to be rejected. The subject treated by Edelman, the social rights in the prospect of revolutionary concessions, must be examined under the new neoliberal approach of the present day in relation to the defense of such rights and, regardless of its vehement criticism, deserves the protection of society under the penalty of characterization of a true civilizational deficit. The methodology used is the dialectical historical materialism used to discuss the pretension of the capital ideology in denying the class struggle through legal discourses that will be appointed.