Human rights and social policy

notes for a discussion about the limits of law and equality under capitalism

Abstract

The article discusses the theory of human rights from the rescue of evolutionary principles and historical development advocated by Marshall and Bobbio, respectively. It proposes a reflection on the limits of realization of human rights , with emphasis on social rights, with reference to the Marxist critique of law. It presents social policies as operational mechanisms of social rights , discussing them as state instruments whose objectives are focused on the reproduction of the labor force, occupied and surplus, confronting the design and places the struggle for social policies as an end in yourself.