Brazilian social service facing social inequality and pauperization

Abstract

The aim of this article is to theoretically and methodologi- cally deepen the understanding of social inequality and the pauperi- zation (impoverishment) of the Brazilian working class, understood here as universal expressions of the social issue in the capitalist mode of production. We use critical social theory to debate monopoly ca- pitalism and its regressive strategies in relation to the social issue, with analyzes based on Marxian theory, when they reveal that social inequality and poverty are immanent in the social relations of capita- list production. We demonstrate, through official indices from IBGE, DIEESE, FGV and critical analyzes that social inequality and pauperi- zation are undergoing a deepening and progressive expansion in view of the globalization and financialization of capital, neoliberal pragma- tics, productive restructuring of capital, the COVID-19 pandemic and the neglect of the current ultra-rightist government, with its project to deconstruct the country’s social policies.