Economia solidária e cooperativismo como política de transformação social

Abstract

This work will discuss the social transformation potential of the Solidarity Economy in Brazil as a production model for a transforming society, which fulfills the role of preparing workers for a global self-management of production based on the principles of Developmentalist-Marxist. For this, it is analyzed how the reproduction of capitalism takes place in peripheral countries, as is the case in Brazil, in order to observe how Solidarity Economy Entrepreneurs relate to this structure, thus being able to identify its potentialities and its specific characteristics as an instrument of social transformation. It is concluded that the Solidarity Economy can fulfill the role of preparing workers for the self-management of the transformed society, if it is a political project that aims to transform capitalist society.