Cara ou Coroa: A Funcionalidade Estrutural do Neofascismo e os Limites da Conciliação no Capitalismo Dependente

Flávia Valente Guimarães

doi:10.1590/SciELOPreprints.14821

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Flávia Valente Guimarães FJPII https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5431-4119

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.14821

Keywords:

Dependent Capitalism , Neofascism, Class Conciliation, Dependency Theory

Abstract

This article examines the structural limits of social-democratic experiences in dependent capitalism, analyzing the functionality of neofascism in managing capital crises. Grounded in historical-dialectical materialism (MARX; ENGELS, 1846/1998; MARX, 1859/2008; 1867/2013), the framework articulates Dependency Theory (MARINI, 1973/2005; FERNANDES, 1975) and the critique of neoliberal subjectivity (DARDOT; LAVAL, 2016). The Brazilian case shows that class-conciliation policies, by mitigating inequalities without altering property structures, produced vulnerabilities that enabled authoritarian reaction. We argue that the alternation between conciliation and force reflects not antagonistic projects but — revisiting Third International hypotheses (STALIN, 1924/1954) — an internal dynamic of functional reproduction. We conclude that neofascism acts as a structural mechanism for bourgeois order recomposition amid the exhaustion of conciliatory governability.

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Author Biography

Flávia Valente Guimarães, FJPII

Flávia Valente Guimarães is an undergraduate student in Law at Faculdade João Paulo II and a postgraduate student in Critical Theory of Society at the São Paulo School of Sociology and Politics Foundation (FESP-SP). She holds an MBA in People Management from Universidade Norte do Paraná (2025), a Bachelor’s degree in English Language Teaching from Universidade Norte do Paraná (2024), and a degree in Business Process Management from the Federal University of Pelotas (2020). Her academic interests focus on Law, political economy, critical theory, and the sociological analysis of structures of power, the State, and social relations.