A privatização/mercantilização da educação superior brasileira no contexto do sistema do capital e da sua crise estrutural

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to accomplish, based in a bibliographic research, a study of the privatization/commoditization of the Brazilian higher education on the capital system context and its structural crisis, focusing on the period from military dictatorship to present, at the moment of the ongoing University Reform under the Lula da Silva’s government. For this purpose was made, preliminarily, a study about the capital-relation, which is the basis of the bourgeois society, whose tendency is to transform all in commodities; after that was carried out an analysis of the structural crisis that allowed it invade another society’s dimensions previously not organized by its logic as higher educational system, as well as the strategies built by the capital’s exponents to face the crisis that intensifies worker’s exploration and contribute to reduce the public sphere and the preponderancy of the private sector, inclusively higher education, exacerbating, in this manner, the inequalities in that sphere. It was adopted the Marx’s theoretical and methodological referential that made possible a profound understanding of the subject researched. The slow and gradual process of privatization/commoditization of the Brazilian higher education, whose expansion in the military regime period was significant, goes on deepening in each government, under the strong influence exerted by international organizations, especially the World Bank, supported by the State, which through a body of laws contributes for the advance that process. The capital’s capacity of civilization finished. The social reforms tend to aggravate the majority of humanity problems and the same is true for education, mainly, in the higher level. To change this situation, to suppress the crisis that affect all society, only through the instauration of another historical form of social production and reproduction; this requires the suppression of the capital, the State and the salaried labor.