State of social protection or global State of violence? Decolonize and depatriarcalizing social protection policies

Abstract

This article proposes a discussion about the Social Protection State instituted in Brazil and the elevation of social rights to the status of fundamental human rights. The bases of this protection system, enshrined in the Federal Constitution, establish that these rights must be distributed based on a system of recognition of rights based on the total absence of prejudice of any kind. However, this redistributive system is extremely limited, in view of the cyclical reorganizations of the capitalist production system, which commodifies social life. Furthermore, with the protection system cemented in a modern/colonial/capitalist/patriarchalist world system, social policies end up revitimizing the most vulnerable and precarious people, who end up being treated as guilty of their own social condition. Therefore, it is urgent to break with the capitalist, colonialist and patriarchal logic in order to have social policies that do not reproduce a global state of violence against, especially against women, black people, LGBTQIA+ people and those who live in the most peripheral regions do not would disappear, since they were produced by the state structures themselves.