A dialética da redução de danos como projeto ético-político para outro projeto societário
This thesis is a theoretical essay and aims to analyze the praxis of Harm Reduction (HR) with regard to the possibilities for the construction of an emancipatory ethical-political project. We start from the conception that the “drug issue” can and should be seen as multifaceted throughout the hum...
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| Resumo: | This thesis is a theoretical essay and aims to analyze the praxis of Harm Reduction (HR) with
regard to the possibilities for the construction of an emancipatory ethical-political project. We
start from the conception that the “drug issue” can and should be seen as multifaceted
throughout the human trajectory. Each situation, with regard to the way of socially approaching
the issue, reflects transformations that are permeated by various nuances over time. Within the
complex relationship of determinations that surround this phenomenon, we can see that, within
the capitalist mode of production (CMP), drugs acquire the status of commodity, thus becoming
a phenomenon that generates consequences in the context of modernity and, its structural
elements and their ideology are strengthened through prohibitionist ideology. This ideology is
so closely linked to the reproduction of the present social order that it can be identified even
during governments that set out to express the interests of the working class and groups
subjugated and oppressed by this order. HR is historically a strategic line of care construction
and a theoretical-practical place to be disputed that is crossed by historical conjunctures. In
turn, it is also possible to identify a process of theoretical emptying and an excess of pragmatism
in many interpretations and actions about and with HR, which reminds us of the need for a
critical theoretical approach. In this thesis, we start from Marxian social theory and the Marxist
tradition as the basis for our reflections and analyses. However, we know that even this tradition
has not historically had a univocal relationship in the debate on drugs. In this sense, we realize
that, within the Marxist perspective, throughout its history, in several of its speeches and
theoretical analyses, there was a departure from the theme, for various reasons such as, for
example, superficial and simplistic interpretations of this determination of drugs, or even a
moralism about the working class and its revolutionary horizons. The aim is to bring to
discussion how HR practices, even with anti-prohibitionist and progressive ideas and
conceptions, often remain linked to an expression of management control of the working class,
ultimately expressing the interests of the dominant classes. Consequently, they end up joining
the reproduction of the CMP. This does not deny the contributions that the HR debate and
practices brought and still bring, especially to face an issue so permeated with ideology,
prejudice and violence. However, a critical reading is essential to contribute to a more effective
field that can reveal the root of the “drug issue” as a contemporary problem. In short, the thesis
defended here is that HR can and should be an instrument for analyzing and transforming social
relations and, to this end, it is necessary that we can dialogue with the trajectory developed so
far, but also that it can express itself as an ethical-political project affiliated with the project of
radical transformation of reality. In other words, under penalty of being absorbed by the very
structure it aims to combat, the agenda of a RD, in addition to being anti-prohibitionist, needs
to be anti-capitalist. |
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