Saturday, July 25, 2015

Thinking of Nildo Viana

This thinker of the discussion of historical materialism to develop their theses. Their intellectual orientation may be considered as an educational subject "multidisciplinary", but nevertheless, he himself describes as "adisciplinar" neologism that means outside the scope of the division of intellectual labor and specialization, as expressed in his article: University and Specialization: the Serpent's Egg. That is why it addresses the most varied themes, objects of study in various disciplines, and works the entire category as fundamental.

In Consciousness of history, it follows the line of Lukacs and Korsch in form (they are "testing") and the content (the critical view of Western Marxism and a strong influence Hegelian). It discusses issues such as the relationship between base and superstructure, between historical and dialectical materialism and performs the critique of Leninism and social democracy dialectic marxista interpretations. This work falls within the tradition called "historicist", "Hegelian" and "left" of Marxism, which marks its difference to other locations considered Marxists, such as Marxism-Leninism, social democracy and joins the tradition criticism of Marxism and leftist tendencies (especially the so-called Council Communism).

He leaves the thought of Marx to reconsider the question of capitalism and exploitation, performing a critical analysis of democracy, citizenship and the state, to present the possibilities for social transformation, based on the principle of self social. It discusses in his book State, Democracy and Citizenship, all these aspects of the development of institutional policy in capitalism polemic way.

In continuation of his thesis, he presents a theory of Political Parties, showing the bureaucratic nature of these institutions, in his book What are parties políticos. It features a strict definition of a political party, and beyond the usual descriptive works on this phenomenon, approaching it in an explanatory way. This text is a state supplement, Democracy and Citizenship, and like the others, is a work controversy and criticism.

One of its main thesis lies in the idea that the history of capitalism can be analyzed in terms of the succession of "regimes of accumulation." Developing the theses of the "Regulation School" and Rabah Benakouche he thoroughly discusses the notion of accumulation regime and although it makes an analysis of accumulation regimes that followed the story, it focuses and develops a more detailed analysis of the accumulation regime integral, the current of contemporary capitalism accumulation regime. In its approach, the accumulation regime is founded on the class struggle, according to his vision marxista. It develops in a series of articles, an analysis of modern society, such as violence in schols, university reform in Brazil, reduction of the proposed penal age in Brasil, from his conception of accumulation integral>. What was developed more systematically in his book "Capitalism in the era of full acumulation"

Its political conception points to a "Libertarian Marxism", inspired mainly on Anton Pannekoek and Karl Korsch, performing a critique of social democracy and Bolshevism, and pointing to social self-management through workers' councils as the means of human liberation. For him, Marxism is not in crisis, but only the pseudomarxismo expressed in social democracy and Bolshevism as the genuine Marxism, libertarian, radical, was always marginal. He shares with Pannekoek and other thinkers, the thesis that Russia did not establish socialism but a "state capitalism". In texts like Pseudomarxismo crisis and The State of URSS capitalism, it develops these hypotheses and Article Marxism Libertarian Anton Pannekoek  and What is self-management, among other texts, presents his concept of human emancipation. His thesis is that the emancipation of the working class is the work of the working class itself and that's how it turns out the real movement for social transformation and the process of establishment of self-managed society. The thesis exposed in this article wins systematic and deepening in his book Manifesto Autogestionário, published in 2008.

From this perspective, it develops an analysis of the most varied themes, covering philosophy, sociologia, superhero comics, violence, marxismo values, among many others, being true to his criticism of the division of intellectual labor and specialization. It features in Philosophy and His Shadow, a precise definition of philosophy and discusses its fundamental themes, presents the controversial thesis of the "end of philosophy", basing on Marx and Marcuse, after pointing out the "dark side of philosophy". In his book on Heroes and Superheroes in the comics world presents a sociological-psychoanalytic analysis of these characters, relating them to the axiology and the collective unconscious, as well as analyzing the historical process of its formation, thus contributing to the sociology of comics. In the book values ​​in modern society, theoretically discusses the concept of values ​​and seeks to distinguish between the axiological values ​​"and" axionomics values" One of his last thesis is the controversial idea of ​​the end of Marxism, according to which Marxism not would be in crisis but approaching its end. For him, what is in crisis is the pseudomarxismo expressed in Bolshevism, social democracy and "academic Marxism" and not the authentic Marxism. This would have always been marginal in society capitalist and therefore abandoning this concept in contemporary society is nothing but the abandonment of its deformations. The authentic Marxism, by contrast, tends to strengthen with the rise of workers' struggles and take place, reaching therefore its end.

All his work is focused on the theory of social self-management, seeking to critically analyze capitalist society and its reproduction process and the class struggle, including cultural struggles inside and pointing to the need for a new society based on self-management social.

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