Lawless Society: Post-Democracy, Authoritarian Personality, Idiotization, and Barbarism

Is the crisis of democracy a Brazilian phenomenon? What makes people passively accept having their rights relaxed or eliminated?

Today's sense of social chaos is the result of a historical process made possible by the "success" of capitalism and its attendant subjective impoverishment. The intention of this book is to encourage readers to reflect on these issues and demonstrate that there is still a spark alive in the democratic project and in the vision of a society characterized by solidarity rather than selfishness. However, any revolutionary project in the 21st century cannot be built on the same foundations as the revolutionary projects of the 19th century. Liberal and socialist revolutionaries of the centuries that preceded us could not imagine what we would be capable of doing with the state, society, and the individual. We need to recover our historical sensitivity. Without historical understanding, there is no possible interaction between subject and object; without history, there is no dialectic (nor the understanding that subjects do not exist outside of social relations) or the possibility of social transformation.