Social Rights And Emancipation:

An Analysis Of The Potential Of Social Rights In The Transformation Of The Sociability

Abstract

This article explores the relation between the concept of emancipation and the potential of social rights for the emancipatory process, aiming to contribute to contemporary debates on rights and freedom within a socialist perspective. The research employs a bibliographic review to analyze the disruptive potential of social rights against the capitalist order and their role in promoting an integrative society based on solidarity. Departing from the theme of rights in the writings of the young Marx, as well as subsequent interpretations by contemporary theorists in law and philosophy who have used Marx's texts to reflect on the evolving concept of emancipation within the Marxian framework, this article investigates to what extent social rights are capable of granting materiality to this concept, thus overcoming the disintegrative tendency of civil society. Therefore, the study highlighted the relevance of this category of rights to the process of recognizing the complementary dimension of needs which is presupposed in the notion of emancipation, indicating the necessity of interpreting them beyond the semantics of subjective rights.